Botting. Suggestion, disable those functions temporarily

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It will work well enough to have a high impact. Botters gonna leave, market stabilization, many things get more worthy and players get a better playtime experience because they don’t have to rely on spamming endless chaos dungeons to compensate for the gold loss made they experience by a bot and gold resellers influenced the market.

But this decision and action have to be made!

Someone might not understand what it would mean to get rid of most botters and gold resellers.

Let me shortly explain to you.

The Bots are injecting a heavy amount of materials and all other crafting stuff into the market. So the prices gonna be low, they influence the price directly with it.

If I shut down the chaos dungeon for the bots by making everything unsellable in every tier, there will be not many 5-digit botting professionals left who can survive this action, because it’s their main source to make gold quickly before getting banned. So it’s worth it for them to run until they get banned.

After getting rid of most botters, you have to understand, that everything u actually do on a regular or daily base will become more worthy. Prices gonna rise again, and the players regain more power over the market.

That means you will do the exact same thing you do right now, and if you are not that dependent on buying stuff on the market at all, you will earn even more gold, because all the stuff is not that common anymore.

And maybe you start another task like excavation and now you can start to make some serious amount of gold because it has become more worthy again?

Doesn’t sound fun? I mean, for now, some people run endless chaos dungeons to make some gold, right…

So this suggestion has not only the chance to stabilize the market in some way and get rid of many botters because they leave this business in lost ark.

This suggestion also gives some players time back. By one or two hard but mostly simple decisions that have to be made at the right time.

Make a Test, take action for a month and the community will see.

I’m standing here in north-vern, in front of some bots before the chaos dungeon, knowing that hundreds of them that I don’t see are actually farming inside the chaos dungeon.

And this is just Tier1 farming bots on Asta. They are freaking everywhere in each tier on every server.

Wait until all those 5-digit boys invest money in the tier3 scripts, and they will figure stuff out even smarter. If then, that will not make everyone aware, then everyone never really cared about the own time they already invested in this game.

Disable the mail gold delivery and make all materials unsellable at the chaos dungeon vendor.

AGS injecting so much stuff with events already, people better stop complaining or crying.

AGS should not show fear by missing out on heavy actions for the wrong good sake of this game and the community. It has to be transparent and understandable written, so everybody can rely on and understand why decisions have been made.

Have a nice evening.

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By far the most common way gold sellers transfer the gold to buyers is via auction house sales rather than mail. It has always been like that in games, because it’s very easy for developers to track and shut down mail transfers of gold, while monkeying with the auction house is harder to do. So you could disable gold transfers by mail, but it won’t have much impact on bots and RMT gold sales in the game.

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Imposing penalties like this onto the entire player base will never be a viable solution. Bad enough that they’re removing gold sources from the game as a means of combating gold sellers. Now you want to basically make progression impossible? God I am so sick of people making these threads :face_exhaling:

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@Bluecogs

Get well soon, maybe taking some rest from your endless chaos dungeons might help?

@Gwynhara

I know, but not every reseller is offering to auction house for a reason, it’s a workaround for them and puts in more effort. But finally, I don’t have any suggestions for the auction house thing at the moment.

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Botting is something that needs to be dealt with at the client/account level. Not by removing features from the game. This is a hilariously bad argument.

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@Bluecogs

Maybe for you or some. That’s ok for me. Nobody can please everyone.

If you want to continue spamming chaos dungeon all day long to get profitable, move on. Good luck.

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What you’re suggesting effects 100% of the player base. You have to be trolling :joy:

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Maybe not shut them down, but make everything roster bound?
And while being at it, remove gold portals after the first two runs.

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Maybe you should read again.

Its says temporarily, as a live test. UNTIL devs are able to fix this problem better at the client/account level as you suggested

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@Tarbos

Yes, the items should be bound and also not sellable at the market anymore.

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Yeah pretty sure my original argument stands. You want to essentially punish the entire player base as a way to do… what? Safe guard the economy while the devs fix this… hmmm ok… so how long do you think that is going to take? Because we’re already 4 months into this and have heard virtually nothing from the developers on this issue.

This is legitimately the worst suggestion I have read on these forums. Congratulations on that.

Might as well just shut the game down while we’re at it. :roll_eyes:

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For God’s sake, sorry that the chaos dungeon vendor means everything to you.

All Right, let the entire Player base speak. So come in here in this topic and have a seat.

And tell me I’m taking away your daily bread.

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The economy isn’t even the entire focus on the botting issue, queues, server lag, new player retention issues, etc. Botting isn’t just about the economy, it’s one piece of a puzzle.

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@Selfish

You are absolutely right about that! But it’s money to be made in here by the resellers. So yes limiting some already developed game functions, might be a quick but hard solution. No Cash, no bots.

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The bots will find another source of income. They always will. The only effect this will have is that their gold prices will go up. But until AGS prices are not competitive to 3rd party sellers, they will still exist.

Changing gold income here and there is like playing whack-a-mole. But still, I think there are some low hanging fruits that could reduce their impact.

Besides that, the only option I see is to proper validate every single account that is being created, add captcha, block proxies and hosting services.

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Are you are claiming 100% of the playerbase does infinite chaos to sell mats and transfers gold by mail??

If you are going to respond with hyperbole or slippery slope, save it. If you cannot answer my first question, maybe stop with the hyperbole and make coherent arguments.

I feel like I could agree with you if you just explained where you were coming from instead of pathetically attempting to insult OP.

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Im not insulting the OP at all :thinking: I said his idea is laughable… because it is…

His suggestion while yes it would kill the infinite chaos bots… it would also prevent legitimate progression from happening via chaos. Just because a tiny minority of players are okay with crippling legit players over bots doesnt mean the majority would.

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Thank you for the points :slight_smile: I see your argument better now.

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I have an easier suggestion hire in-game GM’s you won’t need many at all, 1 per server and they can instantly ban them much faster than anything else they have been doing. Also the folks they would have hired would have cost less than all the time, meetings, implementing so-called: fixes" that just don’t work at all.

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Captcha won´t work in UE3, which was already failed in MU Legends. They will work around it.

Adding GMs sound so much fun, I would spend some time banning those bots I see. But it is not hitting them hard enough, and you have to admit, that you giving much power to some random guy you don´t know as a company, so you have to keep track of them, right… And also GMs may act too late, bots will be in for enough hours to make a decent value that will be worth running them before getting banned.

As I told you, by the last changes and decisions AGS made, Reseller prices somewhat tripled. If you are able to hit them so hard, that prices have to triple again, people tend to not buy it anymore because it’s getting too expensive.

Steam “Limited User Account” function should be somewhat at 20$ instead of 5$. I mean what is 20$ on a gaming platform to get unlimited functions? That would hit botting issues very hard in any game.

And for the VPN ban of today, listen. AGS trying to BAN real IPs by now for the long run. So we should give that time and see what happens. As a botter, you want to use a server, input your scripts and host everything multiple times. Hiding these hosted servers behind a VPN. AGS wants to get rid of that. They want to smack the BAN directly in their face.

People have to be patient.

Using VPN as a player doesn’t really help you decrease your ping. Might have been a good solution if you have a bad ISP. Change your ISP then if possible.

And with the Validation stuff like using a Phone number… That will not work in the long run. Botters will just use some random virtual phone numbers.

Everyone who´s yelling right now. I swear to you what do you want to hear? Do you want AGS to say “SORRY FOR THAT ONE, BUT WE HAD TO…” ???

This game has gotten Botting issues since the NA/EU release. Do you want to bot in Korea? Good luck.

So the game actually started in 2022 to show, where botters are gonna make a high amount of cash for themselves, and if AGS has to decrease functionality. Every step they make, to stop or make abuse even harder or not rentable anymore is a good step.

And nobody on AGS has to say sorry to me. I don´t need a sorry. I need decisions and actions that have to be made. This Game needs it.

And finally, whoever here in this forum is dependent on chaos dungeon vendor by disassembling accessories and selling the mats on the market, … No comment.