It seems to me that CCP only wants the block the Trader-Versions of Lvl-4-Missions to combat botters. Taking away lvl-4-combat-missions to combat botters would make no sense at all. Lvl-4-missions are incredibly complicated. What structure to hit? What container to scoop? Where to deliver what? Shoot what? Only take gates and leave NPCs alone? And for alpha-accounts they are also INCREDIBLY hard. I doubt a bot can run all lvl-4 combat missions.
WTH does âsweet summer childâ mean? What does that have to do with a discussion about Botters? If I am going to get the âJessica Priceâ treatment I can spend my time and money on another platform.
Remember that CCP Falcon follows the Joffrey way of ruling:
âEveryone is mine to tormentâ.
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Itâs a comment from George R Martin, Script Writer from Game Of Throneâs to JK Rowling about her comment on it being hard to kill off characterâs. In this context itâs referring to your naivety about gilaâs :]
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It means you have lived during a time of fair weather and plenty (and no, itâs a few hundred years older than George Martin, even during his Wild Cards days), and have not seen true hardship. I believe Falconâs meaning in this case is that you donât see the dangers of Gilas because you have not seen the potential for a single pirate vessel to overshadow literally every other ship in its class in all roles (ie: the Machariels Online phase from a couple of years ago).
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Its only possible when acceleration gate allow supercapitals. The permissions can vary.
But propose something else, if you dare speak against null entities. I always see you advocating for null entities status quo and I would like to see how you would want to see that null botting problem resolved.
I didnât refer to him inventing it, just turning it into a meme :] and hence the reason everyone uses it now.
I know what botting is, but I canât figure out what RMT is, have played since 2007, first Iâve heard of it. Probably because Iâve been off game for a while.
Thank you, I made it to half way through book three. I just see limiting people from piloting Gilaâs etc⌠as gun control in a war to fight crime. Crime is still going to happen no matter what weapons criminals have access to. They will just use a knife to do the crime if you take away the gun. Taking away a Gila is not going to stop botters. Just shift the means by which they bot.
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L4 security missions arenât very hard for fully skilled alpha with manual ship steering but challenging enough
The problem with drone shipâs in general is that its possible to rat afk, Gila has the advantage that their drones are so tanky that the npcâs cant kill them, so even more afk xD Removing the gila is 1 step in a direction to make it harder for botâs to make money, but yes the better approach would be nerf the gilaâs drone hp bonus and give it some other bonus in conjunction with making all pve ratâs stronger and smarter. To the point where it would be to hard to code a bot to run siteâs as they require good tacticâs which are dependent on the situation and not predetermined.
RMT = Real Money Transactions. Selling plex on Ebay etcâŚ
Gila donât overshadow some other navy and pirate cruisers for variety of roles
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I see three very simple ways to deal with null botting issues:
- CCP has the data, and presumably, some coders. IP Ban the bots already. Name & Shame. IDGAF who theyâre part of.
- Take the money away from the alliance wallets, so bills etc come due and might not get paid if the problem is that bad.
- When you ban someone for botting, donât just ban that account. Ban all their accounts, immediately, and destroy their assets. Any structures in space, immediately send to their hull timer so non-bots have time to get their crap out.
Hell, 4: Fix crimewatch, and in the process, make bot-hunting a bounty-able scenario.
Edit: as a point, CCP is already doing (1) other than the name-and-shame, and already doing (2) as well, Iâm sure. That seems to be why the warning is there in the blog.
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I didnât say they do. I just said that seems to be the thrust of Falconâs position.
This is tedious and you canât keep up with the amount of bots with this platform, AMEN BROTHER!!!
sigh⌠thanks, I knew that⌠(head slap)
Mission NPCs can kill Gilaâs drones easily if you donât pay enough attention to them.
Also Gila is very vulnerable to web/scram NPCs on L4 missions so itâs impossible to do them AFK
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Interesting even with drone ehp rigâs + the 25% shield hp implant and max skills? The shield regen stat should be pretty insane.
Iâm not to familier with missions tbh, only anomâs, dedâs, unrated siteâs and so on.
is it just courier or all level 4 and 5 because then that just makes aplha not worth playing at all i mean i know its the free to play but still levels 3s are worth nothing and you cant really mine in a venture
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