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			oki i have had it ,i reported them, but this is not gonna fix this problem..,the bot are currently using hacks ,whati encouter was like 10-15 tress in a row were tagged and were soulbound to that bot-hacker so when i go and try to cut the tree i get zero wood and also when i find the bots that are using hacks i try to hit them but they have pvp flag on they are like lvl 10 in a lvl 45+ place only mobs can attack them, so i found one i tryed to hit it since he had flag on he just kept farming the tree when the mob next to him come he teleported away then i tryed to harvest the tree he left and i got zero wood so i stopped and he came back to finish it so right now i see bots leaving half cut tress or even full un-cut tree with leaves and branch and just by having him tag it once i get ZERO wood and this is causing a big problem right now reporting them wont help me at all if tagging the tress once let it be soul bound to them only and i get ZERO for harvesting it after they tag it its not even helpful to keep farming soulbound like this and bots are just tagging all tress and we get to farm nothing,,,,atleast i want a fix for this pvp-god protection flag on low lvl bots and also the tree tagging problem....	
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			Zero Wood is always a problem :(.	
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I'm curious, what zone/server/time of day?  I've been noticing a steep drop in the amount of bot activity in the last month or so on Widow. 
 
TBH I don't even harvest in open world.	
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Zero Wood is always a problem :(.
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			southern grimvault/1pm/Ravenous	
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Blame it on the weather and pray there's snow otherwise you might not get that 2nd date.
 
No one likes an under performer, dessert or go home!
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Safest bet is to grind the Viagra AMP.
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oki i have had it ,i reported them, but this is not gonna fix this problem..,the bot are currently using hacks ,whati encouter was like 10-15 tress in a row were tagged and were soulbound to that bot-hacker so when i go and try to cut the tree i get zero wood and also when i find the bots that are using hacks i try to hit them but they have pvp flag on they are like lvl 10 in a lvl 45+ place only mobs can attack them, so i found one i tryed to hit it since he had flag on he just kept farming the tree when the mob next to him come he teleported away then i tryed to harvest the tree he left and i got zero wood so i stopped and he came back to finish it so right now i see bots leaving half cut tress or even full un-cut tree with leaves and branch and just by having him tag it once i get ZERO wood and this is causing a big problem right now reporting them wont help me at all if tagging the tress once let it be soul bound to them only and i get ZERO for harvesting it after they tag it its not even helpful to keep farming soulbound like this and bots are just tagging all tress and we get to farm nothing,,,,atleast i want a fix for this pvp-god protection flag on low lvl bots and also the tree tagging problem..
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			I haven't been to Grimvault for ages. But I do remember it being the worst for Bots. On the dailies zones, I don't see any bots at all. Anyone getting to a node or tree before me is a valid player doing their dailies. I do occasionally get zero wood, but I think that's just a bug, isn't it?	
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			I must be blind, haven't seen bots in ages or gotten any spam mail in game.  No shortage of nodes and I'm in Grimvault... maybe the bots have you on /follow? :)	
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			To be fair, there are still bots, but it's much better than some weeks ago. I even managed to enter TWO wurms without a single bot stealing my nodes inside. Drusera be praised!	
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			I'm sure there are, not denying that... I just seem to never come across them.  I used to see them in PVP, but not anymore. 	
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			I've seen a lot fewer bots out in the world, BUT I've seen a marked increase in BGs, especially at lower levels.	
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Over the weekend BotZapper detected 1 bot when I was helping friend farm schematics in GrimVault and Malgrave.
 
On Mikeros though.
 
If you haven't gotten the addon give it a try.  makes identifying and reporting bots a breeze.
http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/221967-botzapper	
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Bots are using hacks? Is this your first encounter with bots?
 
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Punctuation.	
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Oh yeah, bots are still fairly active.  Missus and I don't play the game that much these days (not because of JUST bots, a slew of reasons), anywho, point being we hadn't gone out of our way to harvest mats in awhile... would have assumed the bots would have been significantly thinned or eliminated by now.  Yesterday (Sunday), around 3-4pm (ish)... the missus saw something on the AH she wanted, so we decided to go farm some mats to sell for quick money.  We head out to Grimvault, and in about five minutes (second tree I was working on)... bot teleports/skims to the tree I'm cutting.  It's kind of sad really, I mean, once you've tagged it, it's really awkward to have this bot show up and be pawing all over your resource-node... it's like one of those horrific Black-Friday sales.  Noticed it quite often too, probably every other, or every second other node I'd farm/shoot, a bot would whisk up.
 
I use a buzzsaw for trees, and just shoot mining-nodes (dual-harvest)... what's funny somewhat, is there was at least one point a bot worked to/in my favor.  Was shooting a mining-node, and again, right on schedule, bot zips on over teleporting/land-surfing right to it, even though it was already mine, and when the node was finally depleted, it vanished from my screen, but a good second or two later I glance over and see the bot's drill still zapping away, it caused 2 more bits to pop out for me... one of which was a green-diamond gem thingy... bonus!  Bots also at times (sometimes and RARELY) help out, since they're automated... been at least 3-5 times in the past where a bot will drill a mining-node and quickly teleport away... which is awesome when a worm pops out... doesn't matter who drilled the node when it comes to the worm, as long as you shoot it dead, in you go... kind of nice just jogging about and getting worms (which ironically and oddly didn't come out quite right whatsoever...).
 
But overall, yeah, bots are STILL an issue and need to be dealt with... still recall back before even the STRAIN drop the talks of, "oh, after STRAIN is dropped we'll have them dealt with"... hrm, alrighty then.  :huh: *checks watch*	
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Southern Grimvault is a pretty popular place for bots.  There are fewer out there than there used to be (I only reported 1 yesterday), but about a month ago there would be 4-5 in the zone at a time.  It's pretty funny when they all get synched up to each other (they all use the same pattern) and it's this bot train just going from node to node.  Must suck to be the caboose in that train and realize all your botting got you nothing.
 
I do notice that they stay away from plants now, so there's still some money to be made from harvesting.  Heartichoke is ~70s apiece on my server.	
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			Sub-50 BGs are filled with bots and aimbot hacks.	
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Yeah, when they did that first round of bans the botting was culled back quite a bit, but it does seem to be slowly creeping back.  I once had a bot appear in my Galaxium worm tunnel.  Q__Q
 
I'll happily use that addon mentioned above to help me report any bot I see.	
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