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Post by Izex on Oct 26, 2020 18:20:20 GMT -8
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Post by visam on Oct 28, 2020 16:43:34 GMT -8
I dislike afk gathering, but the solution of preventing it using some popup that messes up your rhythm and tears you from what your doing to answer some lame question is also very annoying.
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Post by Izex on Oct 28, 2020 18:39:16 GMT -8
I dislike afk gathering, but the solution of preventing it using some popup that messes up your rhythm and tears you from what your doing to answer some lame question is also very annoying. Sadly this is the only way to do it but it should only pop up when you are gathering and only every XX amount of minutes spent gathering. |
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Post by visam on Oct 29, 2020 14:53:35 GMT -8
Could do it in a more in character method like "you find a crumpled note" after answering the question correctly something like "behind the note you find a sparkling jewel" or "behind the note you find a small sack of gold" or "behind the note you find a small pile of ingots" etc...
otherwise
you have been disconnected for being a cheating b******
etc... lol
Mainly something that doesn't drag you out of the game experience the way most servers that do this type of thing does. gathering is boring enough on it's own most of the time without adding extra hassle to it.
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Post by Izex on Oct 31, 2020 20:23:45 GMT -8
Could do it in a more in character method like "you find a crumpled note" after answering the question correctly something like "behind the note you find a sparkling jewel" or "behind the note you find a small sack of gold" or "behind the note you find a small pile of ingots" etc... otherwise you have been disconnected for being a cheating b****** etc... lol Mainly something that doesn't drag you out of the game experience the way most servers that do this type of thing does. gathering is boring enough on it's own most of the time without adding extra hassle to it. While that would be possible it would be easier to cheat the anti-macro system since they could easily answer each question. |
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Post by 2cents on Jan 10, 2021 9:09:40 GMT -8
the problem for me is that the game becomes a captcha excercise in how big brother is always watching  we cant have the economy destroyed by farming bots/afk macro harvesters etc, but I also cant stand the idea of having to fill those darn things out, breaks all the walls, not just the fourth. it would be annoying, but what if instead of a popup, you had a monster attack? after XX minutes mining/logging/harvesting in one area, you see monster(s) show up? the elementals do this already when mining higher veins, and it would at least be a fully in game method of pushing the player to move on? limit the mob to a small area, just enough to push someone along on their way. it would take out line miner bots, and recall miner scripts if it persisted for a few minutes..maybe. regardless of how it worked, it wouldnt be a soul crushing captcha:( i've had some horrible experiences in the past with admins literally thought-policing world chat, being constantly listend in on in ALL chat ingame and on discords, and the popups really invoke all those bad memories... theres no real good way to do this, but theres got to be something better than those. is it possible to disable resource gathering in an area temporarily? or like an interrupt aura/effect? a mob with a theme or somthing, like a 'Nature's Defender' or whatever, that spawns because you've been there too long, with a spell that might not kill you but will keep you from mining/etc. maybe it makes you weaker? weight limits would hit ppl where they live, maybe just a weakness/stacking 'weaken' spell cast by the mobs, that way noobs wouldnt die, but bots couldnt function... idk. good luck on figuring it out  |
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Post by Ninja on Mar 22, 2021 10:56:07 GMT -8
My thoughts on AFK Resource Gathering.
As for the Monster spawning in on someone, I think that is a bad idea, typically because most people will be mining on a merchant char ie no fighting/defence skills, which in turn will just leave people complaining about it and you end up with no one resource gathering at all.
As for the captcha / answering questions, I could easily make a script around that..and what if a new player unknowingly clicks the wrong thing just trying to get it off screen, and now they're jailed or whatever punishment would be set on someone afk resource gathering. The only good way to doing AFK checks would be for a staff member to physically check each person with a series of questions, and with each interaction with a player those questions change (to avoid a script being written for those exact questions)
Now me personally, I say allow AFK Resource Gathering. When I log in to play I want to spend my time playing and doing something fun, maybe a couple of Dungeon runs or champ spawns with friends.. which I'm sure everyone want's the same, to see the community out having fun and enjoying themselves.. nobody wants to log in and sit in front of the screen for 8 hours watching a pickaxe hit a stone wall. So allowing AFK Resource Gathering would be allowing players to actually have fun playing the game while they are on, and then at the end of the day when they're done and it's time for bed, instead of logging out they can just start up a script to get them certain item's while they sleep.
Currently we have a small community, so even with the few afk'ers the market won't be flooded..but it may actually help bring in Player Vendors because I haven't seen many as it is, and people just starting off would like to be able to find some merchant somewhere with some decent starting quips and such to help them get a foot in the door so they can start playing as well!
Thanks,
Just a Ninj and his opinion.
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Post by Izex on Mar 29, 2021 22:57:23 GMT -8
My opinion on AFK resource gathering is that players already grind enough in the game and I am not about to spend time trying to hunt AFK resource gatherers without some kind of automated system. With the number of people voting on allowing it I am going to go ahead and allow it and close this thread.
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we cant have the economy destroyed by farming bots/afk macro harvesters etc, but I also cant stand the idea of having to fill those darn things out, breaks all the walls, not just the fourth. 