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No. No discussion. Been discussed before. No one really cares.
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You can't stop the admins, even the Nazi card doesn't work...

...but if the game is ruined, why does everyone still play...?

No. No discussion. Been discussed before. No one really cares.


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So what if they bot? It doesn't change them as people. Botting guilds can be just as fun as Legit guilds, if not more.

You see, if you're botting, doesn't that imply the computer is doing the work for you? Why then would you be sitting by your keyboard...?

I've been in bot parties before. No one says anything in party chat at all. I never get a reply when I say "hello". Because they're all AFK.

These people you are talking about aren't botters then...they're "babysitters".

And yes, it's all what you're describing, botting doesn't make them bad people, blah blah, some of that could be true. But if they're willing to cheat in a game ONLY to get ahead, how could I trust them in real life? What does that say for their personalities and willpower?

I can't see how a true "botting" guild could be fun. If people are there at the keyboard, great, you can talk in chat or Xfire or what have you while you're playing.

...the fact that they bot says nothing at all for their personalities or willpower...

And ok, you may have misunderstood me. We are not a true botting guild. All of us are either Legit or babysit our bots. We are also nearly all from England / Europe. This means that it doesnt affect our community if people bot their characters through the night, or through college hours etc. It is for this reason that our community is just as fun as any other guild.

Everyone has cheated or will cheat at least once in their life, people saying that cheating in a game reflects on who you are as a person REALLY need to get out more.

Everyone has cheated or will cheat at least once in their life, people saying that cheating in a game reflects on who you are as a person REALLY need to get out more.

There's a misunderstanding that banning botters is to create a better community. That's completely wrong. The well-being of the community comes second, after the fact that the administration searches to have a legit community to support the in-game legit community of which most of us are part of.

I realize there's a lot of closet botters on this forum, but with every refresh of the exposed botters section they slowly get banned. They come back, we ban their IP - locking out the proxy for every other botter to use. This isn't 100% completely effective, but maintaining a stern stance on the issue is tipping the population composition balance towards the legit side.

The most QQ'ing I see, more than anything, is botters and bot supporters reassuring themselves that cheating at the game is fine, because they have real lives. The statement in itself is a contradiction and they have no right to be angry. Legits that complain about botters have a good reason to be pissed off, and i'm not going to silence them because they're discontent. Atleast they're trying to do something about it.

Every legit or legit supporter is a moderate on the issue. It's the 10 year old kids, and the crazy ones, that cry in threads about anyone being 90 is a botter. On the other hand, I love all the claims that botters make. You know, they have real lives, but they spend 3-6+ hours a day sitting infront of their computer babysitting their bot whilst posting on this forum that they have lives.

Add to that the fact that most botters have the wit and intelligence of a hedgehog with downsyndrome. Let me give some examples:


^Apparently botting makes up for personal short comings.


^Coming out of the closet is a HUGE confidence boost. It helps when you're craving for attention too - notice how all of them always follow the "I'M A BOTTER, LOOK AT ME, <insults go here>!" formula.


^It seems with botters there's a need for them to prove to themselves that there's justification for botting. Look at the post above: he starts with "I cheat", he follows with a justification (which is most definately for his own morality, since no one really cares about why he does it) "but it's ok because I sell my chars and make money", and ends with a "lol i'm better than you".

And of course, my personal favorite, and the ultimate example of hypocrisy and mental disability:


Like most of the, brings up that botting is not a big deal. Being the cunning person that she is, says she won't justify why she bots, but leaves with a note that legits need to go out more, and there's more to life than playing 18 hours a day (coming from a person who had 20-30 posts a day and is an adult who argued with 13 year old kids about trivial issues).

So what have we learned? For starters, most botters are insecure; instead of just saying "I bot, I choose to no longer post on this forum", they follow a "I bot because I have a life, which you don't, i'm better than you" to justify their decisions (which shows a lack of confidence). Secondly, they feel a need to throw in a buffer between them and legits. They say legits have no lives, and in reality they waste as much time as them nerding out there lives; so what do they do? They throw in a buffer, usually real life but as one of them showed, money too. And lastly, they're hypocritical. Which should be self explanatory.

This is a game. It's an MMORPG where developing your character IS the game. In games like these, especially the grindfest that is SRO, you literally have to WORK until you reach the point where you can enjoy your character. When you decide that you want to skip all that and bot, you're making a decision that ruins the game for every player that effectively WORKS through the game like it was made to be played. When you bot, you're runing the game in it's most basic form. You're being selfish and taking away the value of the time that legits have put into the game because they choose to have moral fibre and integrity. You can try to reassure yourself by saying that the reason you bot is because you have a life, but it all comes down to the point that you're sitting infront of a computer for hours a day, playing a cheap korean rip off of a game (or even worse, watching a program play it for you), posting on a gaming forum that caters mostly to preteens, and you still feel the need to pump up your ego and confidence because you feel ashamed and you care about what these kids think.

When you care enough to feel compelled to justify your decisions because you care about what the people (the nerds, the no lifers, the ones you claim to not be) think, you really have to question who's the one with no life.

So the anonymity of the internet means what? Cheating doesn't count? It's not really cheating if people don't know your name? You do realize that you are actually interacting with other humans, despite the fact that you are alone in your basement, right? You guys will seriously rationalize anything to not feel guilty about being cheaters. Listen to yourselves sometime. You guys are a riot.

- Everyone knows my name on our server. Why does that make any difference?
- Babysitters still interact with other humans lol. At least in our community they do - otherwise they wouldnt be there. I dont think it is fair to say they dont interact with Humans, when infact the main reason is usually because they like to go out and have a social life unlike some people.
- So your saying Botters sit in their basements while Legits dont. On what evidence are you developing this arguement?
- I'm sorry that you have never taken any risks before and cheated. However not all of us can be Mr.Perfect like you. Try getting out more, this might help your situation.

Don't bite to there shit talk, just because your not pro legit like them means nothing. I think you're very much like me you simply don't care. Most of my ingame freinds bot and infact most of my server does. It's not like when I meet a new freind I ask "Do you bot" and when they say yes I go OMG NOOB FUCKOFF AWAY FROM ME I just say fair enough if that's how you wanna play so be it.

So the anonymity of the internet means what? Cheating doesn't count? It's not really cheating if people don't know your name? You do realize that you are actually interacting with other humans, despite the fact that you are alone in your basement, right? You guys will seriously rationalize anything to not feel guilty about being cheaters. Listen to yourselves sometime. You guys are a riot.