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Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#1 - 2012-08-28 20:36:19 UTC
Saw this last night, and guess I shouldn't be surprised.

I pursued a wartarget from plex to plex last night, attempting to tackle and kill him. I forced him out of plex after plex, tackled him repeatedly (Turns out the merlin was fitted with 2 stabs).
I deplexed 9 plexes. with him continually warping in to try and complete the plexes.

This went on for hours in the same system. WT is question never said a word, more than once he warped into a plex right after I did (He landed on the gate as I warped).
I finally grabbed a second scram and once again, he followed me into the plex, this time I killed him and podded him..he made no attempt to warp after dying.
His behavior was strange to say the least, with plenty of systems around to plex, he seemed determined to continue plexing in this system, even though he had not collected an Lp on hours and knowing that I was going to catch him sooner or later.
I did report it to CCP for further review, but it seems that the bots have realized what a easy farming system CCP has setup.

One character, left alone in a system with minimal interference could easily generate 5 bil + a day, is this what CCP had in mind with the FW update?


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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-08-28 20:38:25 UTC
Yes

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

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Rengerel en Distel
#3 - 2012-08-28 20:40:31 UTC
i love these 5B/day estimates ... bots will do anything that they can automate. For every bot, there are probably another 3000 afk guys doing the same thing though. There are many other posts in many other forums if you just wish to complain about the mechanics though.

With the increase in shiptoasting, the Report timer needs to be shortened.
DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#4 - 2012-08-28 20:43:21 UTC
At least Incursions are impossible to bot. Have seen some incredible 7-8 boxers though they are rare & when we had the numbers to compete for sites they were forced out of it due to being beaten repeatedly.
An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the    Terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's    crashing!" -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
Jim Era
#5 - 2012-08-28 20:44:08 UTC
stop chasing my bot around.
its really interfering.

Wat™
veritas primus
Kat 5 Kaos
#6 - 2012-08-28 20:46:15 UTC
Years ago when I lived in 0.0 I would run across the Raven belt rat bots.....those still around?
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#7 - 2012-08-28 21:30:17 UTC
Jim Era wrote:
stop chasing my bot around.
its really interfering.


Yup.

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
Garreth Vlox
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-08-28 22:06:33 UTC
veritas primus wrote:
Years ago when I lived in 0.0 I would run across the Raven belt rat bots.....those still around?



now they run anoms but its all the same bullshit, tho you'll see more drakes then ravens in most places.

The LULZ Boat.
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#9 - 2012-08-28 22:21:57 UTC
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
is this what CCP had in mind with the FW update?

“If someone joins FW, and just wants to run missions, is that actually a bad thing? Do we have to force people to PvP?” - CCP Soundwave

Sooo... yeah.

In fact, you are probably better off not mentioning that you are forcing fw mission runners into pvp Straight

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12
Ginger Barbarella
#10 - 2012-08-28 23:11:04 UTC
Good luck getting CCP to accept ANY evidence of botting. I stopped bothering a couple years ago.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Ensign X
#11 - 2012-08-28 23:39:10 UTC
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
Good luck getting CCP to accept ANY evidence of botting.


I'd be interested to hear what kind of "evidence" you had. If your "evidence" is anything like the "evidence" that recent GD forum posters claim they've presented to CCP, it's more than likely just suspicion and ignorance.
Bizzaro Stormy MurphDog
B.L.U.E L.A.S.E.R.
#12 - 2012-08-28 23:49:05 UTC
He was having fun making you chase him all over the system.

He wanted you to pod him, too. Quickest way to get back to his home station and climb in another frig.

And not responding in local no doubt generated liters of delicious tears.

I am not an alt of Chribba.
Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#13 - 2012-08-29 00:46:40 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Beekeeper Bob wrote:
is this what CCP had in mind with the FW update?

“If someone joins FW, and just wants to run missions, is that actually a bad thing? Do we have to force people to PvP?” - CCP Soundwave

Sooo... yeah.

In fact, you are probably better off not mentioning that you are forcing fw mission runners into pvp Straight


So really FW isn't what a lot of people hoped it would be when it was introduced, it's just another farming mechanism. Oh well. That figures.

Unified Church of the Unobligated - madness in the method Mamma didn't raise no victims.
Sergeant Nuisance
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-08-29 08:34:25 UTC
my main lives in nullsec. we had a 9 man bot corp next door to us that were blues.

I petitioned them. no way they should be able to get away with it. blue or not.

aint seen them login for nearly 5 days now. tiem will tell if they been wanred in the past lol.
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-08-29 08:44:04 UTC
DarthNefarius wrote:
At least Incursions are impossible to bot.


And that is literally the only good thing about highsec incursions.

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Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#16 - 2012-08-29 10:02:08 UTC
FW = Farmville 2.0

It's horrible and usually done with alts, and no FW bittervet will ever admit to doing it. But, 95% of them do it.

I'm willing to bet the "bot" in question was a few weeks old with no implants...

...
Mikaila Penshar
SISTAHs of EVE
#17 - 2012-09-19 04:48:55 UTC
FW bots are AWESOME for my killboard! Yeah, it goes on and on until they run outta ship- hilarious!

...but on a serious note Faction Warfare has altered the game, and I don't like it. Does anyone have a good guess on when CCP's gonna nerf it?
Cede Forster
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-09-19 05:06:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Cede Forster
ah excrement, just heard that FW is horribly broke


"HOT HOT HOT Prices - all FW items now on SALE - come in, buy your NAVY ISSUE for a fraction of the price. These prices are so hot, they are INFERNAL and with your new BLING SHIP you are literally ON FIRE. I will escalate the price war further and say for every item you buy you get ONE FOR FREE. That is right, it is TWO for ONE!" ***

little we knew that CCP was referring to a price war when they announced the last patch


edit: you can not say that word? oh that is just ... great
edit2: there you go, fixed it. i can say excrement right ?
Fatbottom Girl
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-09-19 05:14:14 UTC
So Beekeeper Bob is in FW and killed a merlin last night with 2 stabs. We'll be watching you Bob.
Creedling
#20 - 2012-09-19 05:30:14 UTC
Quote:
One character, left alone in a system with minimal interference could easily generate 5 bil + a day


Nope.
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