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Even though I agree there's no way the community can resolve the botting problem.It's like saying to the world,everyone stop eating meat and lets all be vegetarian,not happening anytime soon.So the blame lies in the hands of the community,if it was P2P however the consumer can much more easily point fingers at "Joymax".

Btw,This topic is controversial,no arguments convince others.So it's easy to leave it at this:

Legits:Botting is bad.
Bottersupporters:Botting is not bad.

There is no consensus.

6 pages and no conclusion.Move on and nevermind or add a Poll and get it over with

why the community can't resolve? when they are the one who cause it:
- bot
- buy gold
- hack, bug exploit

you convince your friend to stop doing these things, your friends convince his friends, his friends convince other friends, etc...

Meat gives protein, good for health and the important is eating it don't disturb other ppl. While bot, buy gold negatively affect other ppl.
Worst comparison ever.

im fully aware of this, like i said, i dont agree. you just made a post that had nothing to do with the point he was trying make and i was trying to inform you of your miscommunication.

lol @ poll

Wonder why its not locked with such a poll..

thread was worse than the poll
those who imperson the first option made it quite exhausting to watch

Lol at the poll..

Should be more like.

"Which one do you agree with?

Botting is morally wrong.
Botting is morally OK!"

Edit:Should also be specific into what kind of bot.



I didn't mean that it's bad or good whatsoever.I meant that it's very very unlikely u can convince the world to change their foodpreference,don't knockdown a strawman now

Same with Botters,thinking all of them will convert back to legit is a naive thought.

They don't need to differentiate, just ban both. Player bot gold bot still bots


To make naive people like yourself think that they are actually trying the best they possibly can

LOLOLOL? wft??. You serious? If they actually sent that message then its total proof they don't care. Imagine the police in your neighbourhood sending a message like that to all criminals. You really amaze me.

i lol'd, hard

You under the silo spell as well? Let me ask you all this....WHO IS IN CHARGE OF MANAGING THE GAME? Is it the community or JM?....if something is wrong/broke who should be fixing it? us? or JM? Should we the community buy JM silk and also manage the game as well?...Do you go to a restaurant to cook your own food then pay for it?...are some of you nuts?

Spam bots spamming 24/7 even 10-15min after inspection and JM does nothing..Bots of all kinds litter the spawns and potion merchants in plain view and JM does nothing and the community is at fault?

then what are you arguing about? It's both part's fault, JM and botter. You can't say that bots has nothing to do with the destruction of sro

This man is trying to tell us something:

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Thats exactly what I am saying...players that bot.... as well as gold bot companies are natural opportunists. Its their nature..no point in crying about their actions or trying to appeal to their sense of morals. They will always be around. Its up to Joymax to stop them. Blame JM for their poor game management. As we all can see. I've been saying this in nearly every post now....Thats it I'm tired of this..the Champion league final is about to start....If you dont understand then so be it.

I never though there could be such a discussion about cheating. I thought it was really simple

Cheating = bad
Playing legitimately = good

When was cheating EVER a good thing? Maybe in a case of cheating to prevent cheating? This is not the case. Sure you can blame a company or your friends or your simple lack of control for your cheating but it all comes down to 2 things. You and cheating. Put two and two together folks..

Calm down nuclear,we are here for aguing right ?
Let's sum up:
-People bot for being more faster hight lv,a legit who want to be lv 100 ff without powerling will take over 2 years and a lot of money.
-People play the game because it's fun not because you must do 2 year 12/24 grind with preium + ticket sp in gap -x,that why they bot

You said bot = cheat?I answer Yes.Yes bot is cheating BECAUSE it's prohibited.
Biut I also answer Joymax fail at how the game is built,it's not normal to take 2 years with a lot of money spend for enjoy(ah maybe more if after 2 year they open new cap).

However,bot player do not ruin the game,that my opinion(don't need to insult,just discuss why you think it's bad,arguing),for me it's people with MULTICLIENT who open staller,gold bot,(gold buyer as well),spammer etc.. for me it's these kind of people who destroy the game(they make lag,you can't grind,the gold buyeur make money of gold seller so more gold bot,etc..).

=>For me the best way to not make people botting is the increase the rate(less bot player,less people crying).
And for the gold bot,loader,clientless user bha joymax need to find a solution(like limited ip to 2 or 3,cause i heard it was 15 or seomthing like that )

Forget the make" bot legal" to much polemic,and not the best way as well,the best way is still the one in bold

Cheating is cheating. !

nuff said.

QFT

It doesn't matter who to blame, since the game has been already farked.
But there is a clear truth: cheat is bad.


It has been proved that legit can lvl faster than bot. So this excuse won't work.


There is always an option to deal with a fail game is to quit. However, the players choose to stay and cheat. If anyone don't like the game can quit, "friends" is not a good excuse to bot. You can still login the game and chat with friends without the need of bot.


You partially right on this. But tell me if there is any bot player that doesn't multiclient for stalls, plvl or buy gold? As said, this is pretty rare in sro.


ECSRO, for example, 10x rate, there's still some who bots.
This prove that the exp is not the reason but coz of laziness.

Yes, i agree that the game is now is JM's fault. I also agree that bot involved too.
No, i don't agree that someone's fault is a good reason to take advantage about smt.

Screw both gold & plyrbots, only rare plyrbots are good.

I don't follow.I don't lead,I make my own opinions.It's a free to play game,u can't demand anything.ANYTHING.what is wrong or right in the game is irrelevant,joymax makes the rules and enforces them as they see fit.

Besides as for your earlier examples,Temptation is no justification for something bad.




Let me take for example,Duke Nuke game which I love very much.If I unlock some cheats to get awesome weapons is that bad?No,u know why?Cause it's a game,simple as that.

Barca 1:0
bots may subside for now

Man U is gonna win

I hope

Edit: 2:0 now

Yes that true but not forever,Legit as a human need sometime a break,bot don't,so at the end,legit will be always lower than a bot.




It's not a fail game,it's a fail campagny.
this game i really great that why people stay on it,for me even Wow is shit.
Yes if you don't like the game you can quit
Friends is not an excuse to bot,yea.




I know many many who don't use clientless or stall with muclticlient,powerlv as well(the majority started like any legit,no powerlv only farm when they was at the lv cap).
but they still use loader for connect and some buy gold,yea it's sad.
Joymax can't take legal step against these gold seller?

In ECSRO they ban only people who don't pay and bot,but not the rest that why people bot,so yes over there is more laziness.


Yes true.

;D no real suspense


OT: when is this thread finally going to shut down?

You did not seriously just say that did you? Please tell me my eyes are playing tricks on me. I am trying my hardest to keep my composure to reply nicely and it is really hard atm. Where to start. I have played all the Duke Nukem games so I know a bit about what I am talking about. EVERY SINGLE DUKE NUKEM GAME RELEASED WAS SINGLE PLAYER SAVE FOR DUKE 3D WHICH HAD A SMALL BIT OF MULTIPLAYER. AND HAD I CAUGHT YOU CHEATING ON D3D MULTI PLAYER I WOULD STILL CASTRATE YOU. DUKE NUKEM IS A SINGLE PLAYER GAME. YOU CHEAT IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME NO ONE KNOWS AND THE ONLY PERSON YOU HURT IS YOURSELF. IN CASE YOU AND ALL THOSE LIKE YOU OUT THERE DID NOT REALIZE SRO IS A MASSIVELY "MULTIPLAYER" ONLINE GAME. MULTIPLAYER GET IT. YOU CHEAT YOU EFFECT EVERYONE WHO PLAYS. EVERYONE NOT JUST YOURSELF. BUT IT'S JUST A GAME YOU SAY. WELL THEN LETS PLAY SOME COUNTERSTRIKE AND i WILL FN' AIMBOT YOU. AND NO WHINING. LETS PLAY BASEBALL ONLY YOU PERSONALLY WILL HAVE TO PLAY WITH YOUR SHOELACES TIED TOGETHER. DON'T LIKE IT? GET OVER IT. IT IS JUST A GAME.

Need I go on. As much as some of you hate me and I know you do lol. This right here is an example of why this game and it's so called community is such fail. You all only think of yourself etc and can't give a ratz ass about anyone else. Such immaturity man I definatly do not miss SRO atm. Though that is why I still come here so I will not miss it and think about going back.

Why should it? It's not like anyone is promoting "GO Bot" or posting links to stuff that SRF is against. Hell, there's not even that much flaming going on and it's already 7 pages. I find reading all these differing views on the whole legit thing kinda interesting.


ping_lo, i just noticed ur sig, why do you think that? It's lazy, but it's similar to just having a friend help you out when you're tired. My main character is legit, but my lvl 30-40 nubs i use to mess around on are also legit, cept that whole I go looking for "Free Ong Powerlvl" in party match since I don't want to have to go through the horror of grinding at bandit den again like my first time. I think it's still legit since it's being offered for free to all in party match, there's no real way to prove they're botting, except you can kind of assume it depending on how much the party leader talks. Just my view of this.

Agreed
Players ruined the game, those that blame Joymax are either in denile, looking to justify a reason for being unlegit or frustrated because they can't do anything to sort out this mess w/o some kind of help.

Players decide to buy gold for their own personal gain & are ignorant to the fact that they are ruining the economy & making the gold bot situation worse. 24/7 afk player bots make the ingame community sucky because there are fewer & fewer people to talk to ingame & pretty much divides the server up even more. Multi-client bot users are such a pain up the backpipe because they needlessly fill up the servers, which funnily enough sparks up the complaint that it's all to do with Joymax's plan to make people buy a premo.

imo Joymax prolly didn't put in any kind of security to prevent bots at the start because they probably felt they didn't need to. Yea after a couple weeks/months when the botting issue became such a pain up the backpipe they did infact attempt to sort it out, but im guessing they were to overwhelmed & the fact that players where constantly sniping them with insults over & over again didn't exactly help so im guessing they thought fk it.

Like someone said before lvling & sp farming is not hard it's just time consuming, so stop using that bloody excuse -.-! There's no rush in reaching the cap ffs, & absolutely nothing is making you grind 5+ hours a day so if you get bored then log off & find something else todo, it's that simple.

/rant

oh btw trying to find some kind of link between a persons personality or way of life & the likelyhood of them cheating in a game is a waste of time, even if you do come up with some kind of logical conclusion, it's not going to change anything

Well Jigabachi, the game is called Silkroad is it not, with the current rampant botting, the trading system is farked. The large number of higher lvls makes it so if you try jobbing without a high lvl, you end up getting raped anally soooo yeah. The grinding to cap is part of the game, but so is the other half. Try winning a FW with only lvl 70-80s on your side. Lemme know when you win. The only part of this game where being cap doesn't matter is the grinding. To play the rest of the game, you need to be capped.

Now it is true that it is because of botters in the first place that we have to go to cap to enjoy the finer things, but even without them, it would just be a matter of time until you need to be capped to win. Dunno about you, but after awhile, losing over and over just kinda gets annoying.

Like i said, some ppl think it's fun to grind, other just wanna run around killing others.

It is the player's fault for botting, but JM did kinda give them a thumbs up... I've always wondered why I was legit when it's pretty obvious JM doesn't care. I mean, for a real life example, it would be like when someone gets evicted and their shit gets tossed on the streets. Everyone in their neighborhood knows this is their stuff, but once the workers/cop put on the tape over the door, it's free picking because they know no one will care or stop them.

So because you can't prove it..it didn't happen that way...? Getting powerlevel from a bot has been discussed and so has this topic (hundreds (thousands? millions?) of times) and that is the reason Pan wants a lock. It all ends up the same.

Cheating is cheating.
Using cheats second hand (in this case powerlevel, but don't go arguing "OMG BUY FROM BOT STALL", it's a control thing.) is cheating.
Trying to justify cheating is!....lame.

There's no need for discussion especially on a forum that has taken a stance long, long ago. I honestly doubt said stance is about to change.

So in other words botting is just a catalyst to the inevitable were somewhere down the line it'll be the first time starters having this problem. Hmmm i'm going to have to agree with you there. I guess that just leaves the multi-clients & gold buyers & sellers.

Your right about constantly loosing sucks, iunno about anyone else though but that just made me more determined to get better. & FW i never really had any interest in it tbh so im not going to make a comment. In anycase though there is always GWs or CTF that dosn't require you to be capped.