This may be old news to you guys, but I’ve been hiving for RTV’s for a couple months now, and today for the first time I experienced a bot stealing a node I was trying to harvest, and it happened twice.
Entered the southeast cave in Hive Zora and started tapping a rich thorium, and there was an echo to my taps, like someone else was hitting it as I was. Couldn’t loot the first tap, said it was busy. I thought it was just a weird bug or something, so I tapped again and got to loot that one, even though I still heard the echo. The third tap I couldn’t loot. So I started spamming tab target as I began to piece together what was happening and ended up targeting a dwarf hunter that must have been tapping the vein through the wall or the floor. I couldn’t see him, but I could target him.
It fcking triggered me, man and then it happened a second time about an hour later in the same hive, same cave. Except this time I couldn’t target the bot, so I’m pretty sure it must’ve been a horde bot this time. I don’t get a lot of time to play, and farming resources to keep up with raiding consumes is very difficult for me. Now I have to compete with exploiters/hackers directly for by far the most efficient farm available to me as a rogue? And all after they’ve already completely crashed the market for arcane crystals anyways, the price for crystals has literally fallen by 50% from when I first started hiving. Like, I wanna play this game and enjoy it, it can be so much fun and I’ve made some really awesome friends. But it’s pretty much gotten to where I can’t subsist with the time available to me.
TL;DR bots are ruining the game for me and making it so that I can’t keep up.