122546-have-the-farming-bots-been-eradicated

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Hello awesome Wildstar community! 
 
After the ultimate, shameful, dying effort of WoW - WoD. I find my self waning back over to Wildstar again.  (As many other are beginning too)
 
The main concern for me, the reason I left,was the amount of Farming Bots. It really destroyed an awesome game and the awesome experience I was having.
 
So before I commit (just downloading client atm for the 10 day free trail) I would like a quick bit of feedback on the amount of InstantPorta bots! Have they all been eradicated? 
 
Thanks guys! 	
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Wow....
 
You just reminded me that there WERE bots. I haven't seen one of those teleporting fools in a long time.	
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I wouldn't say they are gone but do you notice them..no! :)
 
Besides, loads of people use Will You Be My Neighbour Redux which means you can share your housing plot and go and mine/farm others who are sharing their's.  This basically means you have nodes to use not in the Open World.
 
I see loads of nodes/tress around and haven't seen any suspicious teleporting for some time now!	
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			Personally speaking, I haven't seen any bots warping around in months. Not sure how Carbine managed to nuke em, but damn glad they did.	
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Thanks for the reply guys! 
 
This makes me happy, I love Farming, but the epidemic that the Porta-Bots became was unbearable for me. This sounds awesome cant wait for the client to download. 
 
As always, the Wildstar community is just as awesome as I remember. A lot of love on the forums (Not like wow forums, that is riddled with toxic venomous trolls!)
 
So what happened to my Server Eko? Will I auto move to Jabbit?
 
Thanks guys! 	
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So what happened to my Server Eko? Will I auto move to Jabbit?
 
Thanks guys! 
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			Upon logging in, you'll also need to change your name, since we now have 2-part names ( first and last, yay! )	
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Wow! Double barrel names! :P Thats awesome!!! 
 
Thanks guys! :P 	
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I've heard bots still sometimes operate on housing plots, jumping from public plot to public plot, looking for deposit nodes, or have large circles wherein they're all turning loops to grind up plat.
 
They're rumors, though.  I've spent a lot of time on public housing plots and don't see them.  And the CREDD market sets a pretty definitive floor on RMT sales.  So, yeah, I haven't seen a teleporting bot in a very, very long time.	
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There's so few bots because gold sellers realized that there's not enough players in the game for them to make a decent profit. That's a good thing about low population.
I know "that one company" that makes bots for most MMOs has released a Wildstar bot a while back, but i don't think they're getting much out of it.	
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			Dunno if what CRB did had any effect.  I'd be more willing to believe that the game's population issues had more to do with encouraging the RMT bots to find greener pastures.  When Wildstar gets its groove back I'll bet we see them return.	
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Welcome back!
 
I have seen, maybe seen, one bot in 3 months. I say maybe because it seemed like the person was zooming around, but I was also have fps issues at the time. Big ? on that one :)
 
Also, the nodes have levels attached to them now. You can no longer be level 10 gathering in a level 50 zone. That's a plus and a minus, depending on how you look at it.	
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Dunno if what CRB did had any effect.  I'd be more willing to believe that the game's population issues had more to do with encouraging the RMT bots to find greener pastures.  When Wildstar gets its groove back I'll bet we see them return.
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Dunno if what CRB did had any effect.
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Actually this is a little unfair.  The two-factor authentication system has done a lot to reign in the low-hanging fruit of hacked accounts for the farmers.
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-CREDD essentially puts a ceiling on the price.  No RMT can sell plat for more than 10 plat for 20 dollars, otherwise the CREDD system undercuts them and is legal.  Also, just having a legit option for this means people might not even think of calling an RMT.
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As a CREDD buyer, 10 plat is a paltry sum for $20.  The last time I saw an RMT ad it was significantly cheaper.  The process of buying CREDD to put on the IG market it somewhat inconvenient.  I think there's a 20+ hour delay between purchase and the ability to sell.
 
Obviously the legitimate route has its benefits like not having to go to the virus-laden skeevy parts of the Intertubes.
 
 
I fail to see how only changing mining nodes and pooching the level ranges so that people at level in zone can't scratch them is considered "working as intended".  As an anti-bot measure it's completely ineffective!  The low lifes that run RMT operations have the resources (and the slave labor) to powerlevel.  So this change is a win for the bots and a big middle finger for legitimate crafters.
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It takes a lot more resources to run up a character to 35 then, without telehacking, run a script in the open world to gather nodes on the ground.  It's not impossible, and yes, some RMTs have the resources to do it, but it immediately means a much more complicated and less profitable organization.
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How much do you know about the RMT trade?  I wasn't kidding when I mentioned slave labor.  Yes these organizations turn a profit even if they have to pay for subscriptions and they know how to launder the plat so that they only lose their front accounts and not the farmer accounts. 
 
The only thing they depend on is a game popular enough to attract people desperate enough to give them money.
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			Did you leave WoW because of the honor farming bot matches? :) But yeah, farming bots have been gone since practically the second month post launch...	
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Welcome back Muggz :) !
 
But also a little slap on your wrist for reminding us about that nightmare of like 6 months ago : the bots...  :P	
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Did you leave WoW because of the honor farming bot matches? :) But yeah, farming bots have been gone since practically the second month post launch...
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Welcome back Muggz :) !
 
But also a little slap on your wrist for reminding us about that nightmare of like 6 months ago : the bots...  :P
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