Heimdallofasgard
APEX ARDENT COALITION
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Posted - 2011.02.16 17:23:00 -
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CCP:
I know there are some flamers and trolls on these forums, but some of us genuinely want to engage in dialogue with the developers and GM's.
The dev blogs and test server is awesome! It clearly shows you want to document and report your dev work to the players, and your current trend of fixing old features and bugs in the current client in the form of smaller but more frequent patches is indication that you want to polish the existing features as much as possible.
So why is it when we come to the "bot issue", you all cower away and don't say anything about your thoughts or opinions on it? I know a spy in an old corp that hacked an account using third party software and he got a 12 month ban. Why not the same with botters?
I noticed two or three patches back, you changed the rogue drone loot to even out mineral sources. I've also noticed more and more people getting faction drops from level 4 missions (myself included) I don't know if these are measures to try discourage botting or change how lucritive 0.0 is for making isk, but it's curious as to why these changes are being made.
If botters are not being dealt with (which I hope they are) because you're worried about how the market will react, then I think you underestimate how robust it really is, take the noctis for instance... It took less than a week after it was introduced for the price of one to get down to nearly the cost of minerals to build one.
If all of a sudden, 300/500 botting accounts were deleted, there would be an initial (gradual) shock to the market where prices would increase because many of the isk faucets had been turned off, but... As the isk sinks are decreased and faucets increased, the market would fill up again, because the isk wouldn't be flowing to the botters, it would be going to honest players, MORE isk for honest players.
Another thing, there's quite a large null sec war on right now (if you hadn't noticed) which is putting a bit of strain on the high sec markets (phobos for 200mill?! Hah)
It'd be nice to have your comments/opinions ccp, bad/good or reports of how many botters you HAVE kicked?
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