Bots groups now farm the daily random expeditions for gold

[CylonSupreme]

AGS needs to do something about it. Every day when I do the 3 random expeditions for the gold bonus there's at least one afk. Usually you can get them kicked because the group doesnt wanna just do all the work for the afks to farm gold.

But a new thing is happening, you go to kick the afk and immediately they counter kick you. Like the second it says "wasn't kicked from the group" you immediately get kicked.

Llama Llama and his group did this to me today. I voted to kick because were were nearing the final boss and they were afk all dungeon. The second it said "Llama Llama was not kicked from group" I was insta-kicked. To call a vote and get all votes instantly like that implies some kind of programming.

So if you every wonder why everything costs too much gold here's your answer. Outside of the Gorg/Wurm carries charging insane money, the bot groups have figured out how to farm dungeons for bonus gold every day. 4 of them doing it nets over 20k gold a day.

Sad state the game is in and the devs dont care. "Turn on the winter even again, were taking the month off."

I swear this has the making to be the best action rpg mmo-lite and AGS will just slam it into the ground every chance they get. No way in hell I give them money for the LOTR mmo they clearly pulled the workforce off this game for. They will half ass it and I hope the Tolkien estate sues them into the ground.

[Foxglovez]

This game is like cousin Albert who's 50 now and still can't find a job and lives at home with Mom. You just gotta stop hoping for "potential" after three years. There really just isn't any. MMOs are fine with bots. They buy the game too and make it look like there is an active player base - and they buy the DLCs without whinging.

[Lexinator]

PC version of the game is rife with botters. I came back and encountered the same issue. Reporting them does nothing either. Same bot was on the same few nodes for days. It was pathetic.

Play on the console if you can. In a console only world. 0 bots, no hackers or exploiters either. It's like a brand new game. It also runs with 0 issues, at least on the Xbox.

[m]

I think people are confusing actual bots with players who abuse systems to take advantage of stuff.

Bots are automated gameplay. Automating dungeon PVE would be a genuine task. Common bot-farmed materials on Pangea are still very expensive (prismablooms, bulrush, ♥♥♥♥ that doesnt give XP for picking it up). Bulrush has been about 1.5-2g per on Pangea since launch over 2 months ago. You can easily pick up 1,000 bulrush in 30 minutes with 1 char, so if there really is this bot problem, where's the bots pressing E on weeds?

What you're encountering is likely 1 guy running 2 or 3 chars carrying himself through dungeons to farm gold on an alt, likely 2 or 3 boxing, very poorly.

[Kilsubub]

Yep its boxing. You can run two with a right and left handed mouse with two keyboards and monitors. Its that third one AFK he cant run. Busy, clumsy work and not worth the effort in a dead game.

[Lover_Luisant]

Progress goes on and on...

[Dogtatokun]

Now? You're implying this hasn't been an issue since launch.

[Boots]

Wow.... seem to recall someone saying they spend 99% of their time manipulating trading prices. If this is the remaining crowd that's playing no wonder the game died. Just a bunch of dolts chasing imaginary gold.

[Lord Haart]

Originally posted by CylonSupreme:

AGS needs to do something about it. Every day when I do the 3 random expeditions for the gold bonus there's at least one afk. Usually you can get them kicked because the group doesnt wanna just do all the work for the afks to farm gold.

But a new thing is happening, you go to kick the afk and immediately they counter kick you. Like the second it says "wasn't kicked from the group" you immediately get kicked.

Llama Llama and his group did this to me today. I voted to kick because were were nearing the final boss and they were afk all dungeon. The second it said "Llama Llama was not kicked from group" I was insta-kicked. To call a vote and get all votes instantly like that implies some kind of programming.

So if you every wonder why everything costs too much gold here's your answer. Outside of the Gorg/Wurm carries charging insane money, the bot groups have figured out how to farm dungeons for bonus gold every day. 4 of them doing it nets over 20k gold a day.

Sad state the game is in and the devs dont care. "Turn on the winter even again, were taking the month off."

I swear this has the making to be the best action rpg mmo-lite and AGS will just slam it into the ground every chance they get. No way in hell I give them money for the LOTR mmo they clearly pulled the workforce off this game for. They will half ass it and I hope the Tolkien estate sues them into the ground.

If this is true then it's sick.

Bots ruined Throne and Liberty and now the AI bots in that are like powered by Bar-Steward GPT v50,000 if u know what I mean.

A whole network of boots hunt, farm, process, and sell on ah without a single interaction from anyone. It's 'seck'.

[Scuzz]

There aren't as many bots as people think there are.