Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My brother outsources Web Development to people in India and a few other places, and they're definitely not kids. Most are late 20s to 30-something. That said, they usually produce work that needs to be spot-checked and refined, but so do many developers here.

He also has developers here, and they actually do less work and log more hours, then produce half-finished results as often as not. It's almost painful dealing with them, aside from a few and most have been let go because of cost overruns resulting from their work.

He's done the work himself, so he knows how long it should take, and he does have one guy here he's promoted to project manager who can check the work and also verify it or fix it if needed. In one case, he actually took 30 minutes to rebuild something that another guy had logged more hours for and never finished.

Either way, I think he pays the same or close to, but with a few exceptions he has had more success with International employees. The only real issue--her or there--is that sometimes people use unlicenced images which can cause problems later. I suggested replacing all such content if unverified because I know he's had to pay out >3K on at least two occaisions because of it. Takes quite a few jobs to make up for that.

It's not really so simple as just getting and pushing out jobs and checking them though. Mostly, it involves pitching sales, finding clients, maintaining them, and communicating needs to everyone involved in the project as it happens.

Sometimes it doesn't happen that your Designer doing Vector graphics can communicate easily with a client and you have to go between to get things sorted out and make sure the client gives a clear picture of what he/she is looking for. Other times, it's something else.

I'm also certain that he doesn't make near $600/hr consistently even if his business does do well. People have to be paid, jobs generally take 2-3 weeks to complete, and there is competition.

Just keep killing all miners in highsec. You'll get the bots in the mess.

That's the plan...

Haven't you quit yet...isn't your wife waiting for you to go play WoW or something?

Keep up the good work.

I can do both, nobody is going around ganking folks in WoW. The Guards work faster than the griefers there.

No crying, fully accepting it now. You guys convinced me. It's a win win. And it's obviously the solution here. Gank the miners, solve the bot problem.

They pay $15, yes. But what everyone using this line of argument usually forgets is that they also use server ressources for these $15.
Let's say, an average player plays 4 hours a day. A bot plays 23.5/7. So on these numbers alone the bot would be using 6 times as much resources as an average player per day.
Granted, an actively playing player will likely require more load per hour of playtime on average. So, without knowing exact numbers we can't do the math. But saying "they pay $15, so CCP likes them" is just silly.

Actually... did they release stats on server loads bots vs. players? If not, we should ask CCP Diagoras!

So Unholy Rage was around 2009? Let's say there were 300k subscribers back then (MMOData.net).
The Dev Blog actually shows a graphic where the CPU/user drops from 170 to 120, so thats a 30% drop (% also stated in the blog).
That means 294k players caused 70% load, 6k bots caused 30% load. By these numbers, a bot causes 21x the load of a normal player.
Now tell me again that CCP likes bots^^


PS:
The total load drop is actually even higher than 30%, since the online numbers dropped a bit, too, but I think the above made my point clear enough. All assuming of course the numbers provided were correct.

CCP should do captchas...but in Icelandic, and your account gets deleted if you don't answer correctly in 20 seconds. That should liven things up.

By far the biggest hive of bots is in caldari space.

Why does no one understand CCP will NEVER get rid of bots. Each bot represents a PAID ACCOUNT. Drop any conversations involving bots.