People hogging mob kills

[OdinsEye]

I'm in snowstorm village trying to do the guilmon quests for Starmon, but in both channels there's like 3 players with lvl 50+ megas hogging all the guilmon. I can't change channels as both have this, and I really don't wanna wait for them to log out. Is there a way around this? Like a private channel or something?

[GM_HellKat]

İlk olarak Malokenic tarafından gönderildi:

I have no means of recording my game adequately without problems from my PC unfortunately. The only other productive thing I could have done was report the botter. Which I tried. But it told me I didn't have enough Macro Protector items or whatever. Not sure exactly what it is, but based on what it told me at point value, it's telling me I need items just to report someone. What kind of backwards system is that. I eventually managed to get my mob kills but this is ridiculous. If they aren't going to do something about botters, then they need to increase spawn rates with reduced seal droppage (cause they drop like crazy) or add more channels for other players. Gameking had like four channels an area but steam has only two.

If we were to increase more channels, it would only make more botters be there. The spots are usually already occupied with tons of people only on 2-3 channels. If we made 7 it would be even more full of botters. It would still not make any room for you to do your quests, unfortunately.

And GameKing and Steam are exactly the same servers so GameKing or Steam users have no advantages or special spots at all because they all connect to the same server blending both GK and Steam users together.

[Malokenic]

So you pretty much admit you have to purchase items that are required in order to actually report people...That system makes no sense in my eyes at all, and only hinders the people who want to report botters and the like.

I understand what its like being understaffed and it sucks, cause I have to deal with the same thing every day at my own job that has its problems hiring people be it finding reliable people or my superiors just thinking who we have are 'enough'. So I get where you're coming from with not being able to do everything on your own or your superiors thinking that you are enough for one entire game. And I'll clarify that I don't believe you lot are 'not doing your jobs' or anything because I actively and constantly see reports pop up in-game about "Insert Random Letter Combo Username" being banned for gold farming or illegal program usage.

But if you have the power, why not change up some of the spawn rates? I get that if you increase spawn rates on certain enemies then it makes getting certain items SO much easier but you could also lower the drop chance to offset this. It gives normal players a better chance of getting those quests that require mob or boss kills finished despite those botters that pop up. Why can't all areas be like Yokohoma and have mobs spawn in like crazy?

Back when I played like two years ago just about, I really really enjoyed this game on GameKing but the main reason I stopped playing was because it gets to a point where you have to spend a week or two grinding dailies just to level up once for your digimon, which may be a reasonable timeframe for some MMOs perhaps. But when those dailies involve killing a boss spawn that comes once an hour and you have botters or other players killing these guys in all servers...it hinders the community and it killed my mood for the game.

Of course this is just me but I think the main problem with the game involves the EXP gain and the mob spawns for quests like that. If you can't deal with the botters because of people not being able to report due to not knowing what or how to obtain a Macro Protector or video record these botters, then why not change up the actual mob spawns themselves? I understand if its above your position and/or out of your capabilities but you all have to do something about this at least. You hold the singlemost popular Digimon MMO in your grasp and its being killed by people who bot and kill mobs and mob spawn rates being painfully low.

[Malokenic]

I truly am not trying to sound disrespectful or sound like I'm attacking or anything. Yes yesterday I was a bit upset with my post about you all 'not caring anymore' and whatnot so I apologize if I let my anger get the better of my words. But I just wish there was something that could be done about this issue somehow. Heck if you guys really need assistance with keeping channels in check with botters, why not give respected and well known members of the Digimon community a bit more power than the average player to deal with something like this? I know that could backfire SO badly if they decide to do like a ban crazy thing or something but it could still lessen the burden off your shoulders while at the same time making the game a bit more fair for some people. I plan on going through the early areas a lot myself cause I'm actively bringing friends to the game (I've got one joined and bringing in another) so I'll be running around. I'd even volunteer to be one to look out for these botters and just ban them outright. The Beelzemon botters are probably the worst thing about the game right now.

EDIT: Or at least kick rather than ban. Unsure if botting is liable for an actual offense in this case other than a warning since it hinders players.

[GM_HellKat]

İlk olarak Malokenic tarafından gönderildi:

So you pretty much admit you have to purchase items that are required in order to actually report people..

Macro Protectors are not meant to report people. It does not send us any message or ping signaling that someone is using it. Macro Report can be applied to a player in battle and it will show them a security question which they have limited seconds to answer. If they don't answer correctly or don't answer at all, they will be banned automatically from the game for a certain period of time. Depending on how many failed Macro questions they already have logged to their account, the ban extends each time alone.

About the channels, it was just an example. I, myself, have no power to add more channels. Only the Developers can do it and we have suggested certain maps to have more channels numerous times but they don't seem to find it useful or needed.

And lastly, I am thankful for your understanding of our situation. We move your and everyone else's' suggestions to the right people but in the end, the decision to make whether it will be applied or changed is beyond us at that point. There are so many good suggestions coming from the community and the GM's themselves that were never applied and will possibly never be, which is a sad situation.

Whatever the situation is, we will keep trying by pushing the suggestions over, perhaps one-day things will change and they will actually start listening to the community and their employees.

[C Bah's]

İlk olarak GM_KatyKat tarafından gönderildi:

(Why don't you hire more people then?) Because the company or the ones that are in charge think we are more than enough for all apparently. Even our team leader is angry at this decision since we have been asking to get at least 5 people full time for GDMO. It won't happen at this rate.

I’m pretty sure some people would work for the company for free, help in any way possible.

[Malokenic]

So about the macro protector: If I were to use the Report function with one in my inventory on a bot, and they don't do the security question thing, then they just get banned after like...maybe five minutes of giving them a chance to respond or something? And then I could go about my quest without them there then?

[Sharkai]

30 seconds. The response time is the sane as the cooldown on a macro protector. If a person answers it correctly you receive a notification and they get a buff protecting them from macro protectors for 15 minutes. If they get banned you get a different notification and you receive a 1 hour buff.

In all honesty macro protectors are pretty useless. I've managed to macro plenty of botters but there was a time they could solve it in a literal split second. The odds of having one banned now is higher than before but if they use advanced bot programs they will still solve it.

What's important to grasp however is that not everybody farming seals is a botter. This is a flaw a lot of people can't see past. Bots move mechanically, they always attack the same way, always target the closest target and never target something that is outside their aggro range.

If you wish to kill the guilmon for your quest you could try to find out what digimon you have can oneshot them with a skill. You go to a guilmon spawning and the moment it's targetable you mash that skill button which will prevent other people from hitting it if it's a oneshot and you were faster.

[Malokenic]

I have a digimon that can one shot them. Its just the start up attack is so slow compared to Beelzemon's insane range and how he shoots his shotgun immediately with no buildup, be it his regular attack or a skill. Its honestly just not fair. And no I know these people were botters because they did exactly what you said: They stayed in their aggro range and sometimes clumped in corners together until more spawns pulled them away. The only times I managed to actually get these kills were when they got clumped up on one end of the spawn pool and I got the other end that got drifters and outliers of the spawning pool. Even then it took forever. I'll try buying like five Macro protectors anyway just in case for the future but otherwise I guess I just need to be lucky.

[Monkey.D.Luffy]

well as my experience macro protector just helps in 1 of 10 cases (but i havw 100 in inventory just in case xD) cause most of them using psc bots who answer macro protector. But since i know there is no other way to get rid of botter i record everyone i see ingame. But as i started dmo i haqd exact the same problem at guilmons to do my quest.i asked nicely about 10 people to share me the spot for quest and 1 did let me do