That’s interesting, and not surprising now that you mention it.
I think regular bots will still be used because the reward to risk is so great. Even if 49/50 bots die while levelling and must be deleted, if that 1/50 makes it through then you’ve still had a win. Who cares about sunk time when you’re not playing?
They could simply limit trading, like current HC is handled.
But then they wouldnt make as much money without bot subs and RMT tourists. So hey, thats what we get
Yay talk to another person to drown out the video!
Yes, unless the elephant in the room is addressed by making a hard gold cap.
Ideally 1000g per player.
That won’t change the realm’s culture. Players have to choose what type of behavior is acceptable. Goldbuying, boosts, and GDKPs are what’s popular on the megaservers. Address the actual problem.
Easiest fix would be to start 6m to perma banning buyers rather then bots
Why not both? More profit for blizzard when they come back.
Why not both?
In truth, there is no easy fix. Players must, individually, be the change they want to see. Stop tolerating the cancer, or it’ll only grow into another “Wrath Classic Tokens” moment.
Just train mobs onto the bots like we always have and call it a day.
Players with anonymity you can assume the worse behaviors.
Putting a hard gold cap is the best way to cut down on botting, inflation in game.
is to adopt a culture that values individual players over their resources. The gold cap you suggest will merely shift the focus onto either hoarding multiple gold capped toons or converting the value of gold into other tradeable goods
Actual in game GM’s are incredibly effective also.
Which is why you also include a cap for gold a player can have on an account.
1k per char, 2k per server account.
If people want to gather 100k+ gold it’s going to be a lot more expensive to do so
Until they are bribed
There are a few of us here on the Forum that are with you, my friend, but unfortunately there are quite a few people that just like to disagree, or are planning of using RMT to get ahead in HC, and are effectively defending botting and RMT in Hardcore.
It is genuinely disappointing, because Blizzard came up with nuanced solutions to the other disabled features of the HC addon like only doing a dungeon once and limiting experience with a High level in the party to stop power-leveling… But when it comes to RMT and Bots (something blizz has recently been accused of secretly supporting for kickbacks from the gold sellers)… They are radio silence.
And it will definitely be the death of Hardcore, no questions asked. It will be Hardcore like the old days on Bloodsail for probably around a month before the cracks start to show. Then its all downhill.
No thanks. Ten characters is 200 each. So a bunch of busywork and waiting if I need like 1k on a certain one.
Besides, I don’t buy gold. Never have and never will. Why should I have to be punished with all of this.
Ban buyers!
We all know Blizz is providing minimal service to Classic and ideally the best course of action would be have real life human gm’s banning botters and gold sellers but Bobby needs to get his 3rd yacht so that’s out of the question.
So by putting a draconian gold cap in its minimal work on blizz’s part as it puts several controls in with players only able to have 1k gold per character and 2k gold per server account.
This also will help control gold inflation as you are putting in caps that each account is able to produce. Where as a single account now can theoretically have 6/7 figures worth of gold on a single account. With forcing a 2k cap if people want to generate massive amounts of gold they will need multiple accounts and then it will take many many accounts to be able to get to the 6/7 figures like we do now.
Rewarding faithful reports of genuine bot behavior would be a better solution. It still relies on players’ immediate self-interests, but may teach players to value honest gameplay. It also turns buyers against sellers.
Would not play, why should honest players be strapped with restrictions because of others actions. Like I said, no thanks.
Sounds more like World of Punishment.
No bots will not ruin HC anymore then they have the other servers for the bulk of people, and no most people do not buy gold.
However bots will still exist, and unfortunately some people will buy gold. The thing is though, for most people if they want they will easily be able to farm their own mats, and gear up. Also if you got to practically every server, the cost of most stuff even on the AH isn’t that crazy, so no the economies aren’t completely broken.
As for the HC server, the bot problem should be less severe since it will be dangerous for bots since they will frequently die, and it also removes dungeon leveling services as an option. While the under 60 one dungeon per day limit will likely end up in SOM2, it won’t be a HC servers so it won’t get the same benefit where bots can be killed making their existence much more difficult.