other than the ah bots that will instantly undercut you (sometimes on the level of 10 sellers) within seconds of putting your items on the ah, I have noticed a new style of gold farming being used.
basically they run in groups of 10. 1 lead, human-controlled player and exactly 9 multi-box accounts. I noticed 2 separate groups within the span of 5 minutes in vol’dun near akunda. each group was full of names with puns going from one to ten in either english or spanish.
Here is the interesting part, the game lags so hard with them all in one place that you can gather from herb nodes multiple times when they are nearby. No clue about mining nodes, as there was no glitch with those, but I don’t think I found one when they were nearby.
I was gathering at a node and mounted up to leave for my quest, and the node was still there and I could loot a second time. seconds later the 10-man zerg shows up to that exact area, and when they leave it goes back to normal. I do a wq, herb another node and it also doesn’t go away; sure enough, a second 10-man zerg shows up and it goes back to normal when they are gone.
Just letting all of you know and to be on the lookout for something similar.
Sounds like you just ran into a multiboxer which is not currently against TOS. When a bunch of them get into one place, it can cause a bit of lag.
Now, if the farming of the same node causes a bug that allows the plant to be farmed more than once by the same character, that is something I’d report to the bug forum.
not automatically within seconds of you putting it up. this is a common bot in ff14 used by gil sellers there; on thrall it is epidemic.
as for the rest, seeing the regular users here trolling other boards on this forums, and the permissiveness to any toxicity you think you can trade for mvp-bait… well my sympathy for the game eating itself alive is minimal.
So, giving you correct information is somehow trolling? You came here to let Blizz know that people multibox. Blizz has known that since the game launched and has stated more times than one can count, that it’s currently not against any rules.
And even if you don’t believe it, there are indeed addons that can undercut you in seconds that are within the rules too as they still require player input to work.
this doesn’t require player input, as in it’s a bot doing it. your attempt to “own me” by being unpleasant in the hopes of getting your mvp status one day is getting in the way of you understanding my point.
I know of no addon that scans the ah 24/7, instantly removes all your items from the ah, and then puts them back up to undercut everyone else all by itself.
to do that with tsm, you need player input. this is not player input as just about every mmo has gold-sellers with specific bots to do this. why? because it is so hard to pin them down because those like you are overeager enough to cover for them in the hopes of showing blizzard how sassy and unhelpful you are.
Multiboxing is not botting. Botting is not multiboxxing.
Could the multiboxxer be botting? Yes. Can you prove it? No. All you can do is make assumptions based on what you see. If you believe someone is cheating, there is a right-click report option to address that specific concern.
bots are being used to trawl the ah 24/7, then automatically removing all items once undercut to the re-up the items that were undercut. these are common and well known in other mmos and they have found their way here apparently.
gold sellers are using groups of exactly 10 multiboxers to farm herbs to sell on the ah, but their groups are causing so much lag that you can farm herbs multiple times when they are near.
you and your two alts were so busy trying to sass me over claiming multiboxing is permitted that you forgot to read my post.
Also, glad to know where the general forum trolls hang out when not engaging in damage control and character assassination of dissenters. just about every name in this thread is familiar.
It’s already been explained to you that if you believe someone is cheating, you can right-click report them for cheating. Perhaps you were too busy being edgy to have noticed.
yes, tsm does that, but it is impossible for people to be constantly hitting tsm scan 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
basically the bot is designed to use tsm, walk to mailbox, walk back to ah, then go back to spamming tsm scan.
these multiboxers were all going in circuits and making lag to exploit gathering. the state of the game makes so much sense when stuff like this is just handwaved. unless there is some skullduggery going on behind the scenes.
I can assure you, the Blues here don’t allow for sockpuppeting. If I were posting using a different character (something I haven’t done in over 10 years now), the Blues here would have put an end to it.
So let’s try and address your concerns and leave the unnecessary hyperbole out, yes?
If you think someone is cheating in-game, you right-click and report them for cheating.
Multiboxing isn’t used by gold sellers. They steal accounts and the gold that’s on them. Multiboxing is too much work when they can just steal the gold instead. But again, if you think that they’re a gold seller, feel free to right-click and report them.
If 10 characters is causing your system to lag, then that’s a different issue. But 10 characters will have no effect on server stability and they can’t “make lag”. That’s not how it works.
Report the bug over in the rather aptly named bug report forum or use the in-game bug report, that goes to the QA people. The SFAs here aren’t liasons to the developers or QA.
Again, if you think they are botting, right click report and go on about your day.
so you are all using the same grammar, syntax, and rhetoric and posting one after the other because of… a hivemind?
how can it do anything my side when it is the herb nodes themselves are being affected? Again, you are too busy trying to sass to care about what is actually being said.
once more, gold sellers in other games have been cracked down on to the point of only being left with auction exploiting. seems to be the same way here because why require their workers to have to learn new methods of exploitation? also how would they steal accounts with 2 factor authentication basically being required? this isn’t the mass account stealings of 2010 (though blizzard denied that was a thing when it was going on).
again, why should I help the company if they seem to give their direct support to toxic "sfa"s and care for nothing about what is really harming the community?
all of you could have easily not responded if what I was reporting was so unremarkable, but instead you chose to attack. I responded to refute now you continue to attack out of revenge for making you all look petty and incompetent.
honestly, why get in the way of that self-destruction if the company hates their game so much?
No, we chose to try and correct you. You don’t seem to be willing to understand or accept that though. So I’m really not sure what the point of you posting here is now.
