Florestan Bronstein
United Engineering Services
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Posted - 2011.09.13 07:23:00 -
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Prince Kobol wrote:
Lol.. of course it is :)
Who sells isk to the RMT sites.... oh thats right, it must be the 1 person in mack botting in a ice field and not the 100's of bots in null earning millions of isk ratting bots?
Spend about 5 minutes on a few bot forums and you will see the vast majority of them live in null.
A year ago most botting might have been in 0.0 as ratting bots were pretty efficient.
But ratting bots have to share a scarce resource with real players (which leads to conflict and reports by angry players who wanted that faction spawn your bot just stole), are easily recognizable (as 0.0 systems tend to be pretty empty) and run - even with safespots/POSes prepared - a substantial risk of getting destroyed by roaming gangs (drop bubbles at belts or the POS when passing through first time, return a little later and kill bot).
Mission bots' ISK/h is comparable to ratting in 0.0, they don't "take away" anyone's scarce resource (just destroy LP prices  ), they blend in with a few hundred other mission runners in a busy hub, on war-decs they can switch corps and unless they are fitted as loot pi+Ķatas chances of getting suicide ganked are slim.
As far as I can see the only real advantage of ratting bots is that they can afford to be pretty stupid and you don't have to risk getting (perma)banned for "client modification".
On the other hand chances of stepping on real people's toes are much bigger in 0.0 (even more so after the CA nerfs), chances of happening upon some zealot who will report you regardless of alliance policies are pretty large, chances of CCP changing their mind and deciding to punish your corp/alliance for tolerating your botting in their space may be slim but exist, ...
I would expect that many people who used to bot in 0.0 have migrated to high-sec during this year.
That doesn't exclude that these high-sec bots belong to 0.0 mains - always a good idea to stay close to your market and build the mutual trust required for a RMT business. |