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Well I guess we can assume people believe everything without using an extra brain cell.

heck, I think I might start botting too.

u might want to

a )say just joking

b)edit your post

if any1 didn't get wat he meant, he means that he'll bot so he doesn't get banned

It shouldn't take much time to do a bot ban, at least for the gold bots. How much time does it take to stand at Donwhang west gate next to the spot where the gold bots all stop for a moment and continue on their way (or any other gold bot "checkpoint") and click, ban, click, ban, click, ban.

Travel around various places like the ongs in hotan, see 3-5 players, all dressed exactly the same, same weapon, running synchronized in the exact same path RIGHT next to each other, all attacking the same mob, at the exact same time with the same skills... no legit player could ever do that without screwing it up.... click, BAN!

See the pile of 10-30 characters all standing in the exact same spot next to any of the NPCs (pot lady, blacksmith, stables...) Legits would have a really hard time doing that. Click, BAN!

And as for sorting the list in alphabetical order by server, if they click-ban a bot, the database should already know what server the bot is on, and what their user ID is. It should be as simple as a scripted sorting routine that should be able to sort hundreds or thousands of records in seconds. It seems trivial to write a script, or SQL stored procedure that sorts these names and generates an HTML document listing their names by server.

Now how can that take so long? Even the "massive bot ban" announcement could be scripted so the GMs don't have to compile it themselves.

clientless goldbots are not ONLY used by gold selling companies
in fact they are not really expensive, and more widely used than u all think
i'm told in game by a fren that he pay less for a clientless bot per month than his isro bot (personal use, he doesnt sell gold or what) , ard USD $15-20 per month for clientless

Your logic is completely wrong.


Maybe gold bots wont pimp their gear, buy astral and whatnot.

But a regular player who bots is just like a legit, but theyll probably buy more silk to be more powerful. and theyll pimp their weapons and gear, as theyll be high on server and want to get higher.

If you ran a game and most of your paying customers were bots. Would you ban them and lose 90% of your income?

Granado Espada made an in game bot just to aviod the bot issue. <-- Smart but still.. lol.

Yes, a player bot will often buy just as much silk as a legit, or more, but player bots don't make up a majority of the server population (I would think). Gold bots overwhelm the server. If you block the 2,000 gold bots (again, they don't buy much silk) on a 3,000 capacity server, that's 2,000 slots that could be filled with real players that will buy a lot of silk.

True, the slots could be filled with 2,000 player bots, but from a money perspective, that should at least potentially get joymax more profit.

People *might* not feel as much of a need to bot if they don't have 2,000 gold bots KSing them in their grinding spot... maybe.

Gameguard is not jsut a picture or somthing, my old bot wotn be able to launch cuz its blocked now.

at least that what i think, i havent used it in a long long long time

SRO game developers need to keep a healthy population of gold botters.
Obviously to make more real money by (1) gold selling and (2) silk sales so SRO players can log-in with ease.

Gold botters or gold farmers are what keeps the server fully traffic 24/7.
Removes gold botters and all the work to put 20+ servers of iSRO would go to waste.
So they do it for the money, its always for the money... and nothing else matters.

+1 Completely agree with what you said. Botters also get more drops etc because there botting all the time so they get drops to sell to the rest of the sro economy that might need it. And the Major server traffic issues imo are from the Gold bots...

Joymax & Goldbots meeting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgjdM8FPl8

Tsk Tsk Joymax xD

haha nice vid

It's so unfortunate that some people are so pro-legit there head gets clouded.

-Excluding gold bots, the majority of the server are player bots.
-Player bots that pay for iSRO bot cards have alot of money to spend on silk and gold (generally).
-People buying gold = more gold bots = more premium tickets
-Joymax will not ban playerbots because like I said they are the majority on the server, and spend the most silk.
-The game is corrupt because
a)Joymax fails to keep the game clean
b)Mashing keys for hours a day is not fun (maybe it's fun or some??)
c)Majority of server bots and buys silk, so why would joymax be so fckin dumb to ban the bot population and have about 100legit players per server?....tell me you think if all servers were whiped from player and gold bots, that playerbots will come back and grind to the cap by hand?? hell no!!!!

1] agreed
2] agreed
3] agreed
4] plausible
5] game is corrupt because:
a] agreed
b] if its not fun, then why are do people bot? you seem to fail to realize that player bots are more addicted to this game then your everyday legit.
c] refer to B; as we have seen on Venus botters are 100% willing to handgrind when they can't use their bot anymore. Maybe you wern't here when Euro arrived, but i remember Easy, and Populated servers + Crowded old servers once in awhile. That shows that without gold bots; players would gladly log in, and handgrind. As a Matter of Fact the days following Euro people we're alot nicer.

The point is although player bots make up the majority it is because of your narrow way of thinking that we isro will nvr move forward. As long as people like you are complacent with the current situation nothing will be fixed. You want to know why people bot? Its simple:

because they can; people bot because they have nothing to lose, and they believe that because they bot everyone else bots too [projection ftl]. Joymax thinks like you, but they fail to realize that if they get rid of gold bots, or should i say bots in general like they planned to do, then Isro would be a much healthier lively enviroment. Despite the crowded servers Isro is pretty much decaying from within.

servers are crowded because people buy gold = more gold bots = crowded servers = the handful of players left [bots, and legits] buying premium; then the handful of legits eventually quiting.

Isro is not a game where everyone is meant to be lvl 80; this ideally is how Isro would be without bots, and gold bots:


50% - 70% lvl 20 - 40 [these guys are mostly chinese; they buy a pet, and outfits or nothing at all, they try to keep up with their higher lvl friends, but usually nvr catch up. They lvl extremely slow because their grinding method sucks; most likely to bot]

28% lvl 40 - 60 [these guys are Euros/Chinese; they buy their pgt/gt, but because they are so socially adept don't spend much time grinding, and mostly mess around: mmorpg; not as likely to bot as the other guys ]

2% lvl 80+ [these guy are the hardcore grinders they play 3 hours a day, every day, then log off[OMGZ 3 hours their so hardcore] . They don't interact with other players because; their goal is 80. These guys are Chinese. within 3 - 5 months with silk from lvl 10 - 80 they will have their cake ; they probably will nvr touch a bot.]

what catagory should you fall in?

here is the current Isro trend:
majority wants to be 80 NAO: even the non silk buyers so they decide to bot . they babysit, and tend to be the most addicted to the game.

60%+ [you have seen the servers you know these stats are most likely true] Gold bots
20%; these guys nvr get past 40 [mix of legits, and player bots
19% player bots that are lvl 80
1% legits that are lvl 80

I'd love to talk more about this but it may end up in me getting banned

lol, you bot?
was this topic like locked? I SAY, RISE!

The whole thing with botting all comes down to my sig...

botters keep the game stay alive.

lol; you're roflicious, botters keep the game barely breathing.