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The_Fury · 08-09-2008, 07:09 PM

IMO for the most part mud bots are harmless because with the exception of PVP games, there is no real competition between players other than for bragging rights about levels, monsters killed or some other meaningless number that no one really cares about.

On the other hand FPS and poker games can be totally devastated when people use poker bots, wall, ghost and stat hacks and aimbots to aid them in the game play. In this situation, when bots are used gameplay can totally break down and make the games unplayable for the honest.

In both of these types of games there is direct competition between players, kill or be killed or win or loose lots of money and with the excpetion of full pk games where botting does not seem to happen all that much, due to the risk of your toon being killed, regular muds do not have such competition. In PVE, everyone is going to have to spend somewhat equal amounts of time getting to the end game, some will do it very slow, others will be faster and some will use scripts to gain an eficiency bonus.

I am in no way an advocate of 24/7 scripted botting, but i do advocate using scripts to make things more efficient.

08-09-2008, 07:09 PM	#77
The_Fury Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 57	Re: Triggers, scripts, and bots IMO for the most part mud bots are harmless because with the exception of PVP games, there is no real competition between players other than for bragging rights about levels, monsters killed or some other meaningless number that no one really cares about. On the other hand FPS and poker games can be totally devastated when people use poker bots, wall, ghost and stat hacks and aimbots to aid them in the game play. In this situation, when bots are used gameplay can totally break down and make the games unplayable for the honest. In both of these types of games there is direct competition between players, kill or be killed or win or loose lots of money and with the excpetion of full pk games where botting does not seem to happen all that much, due to the risk of your toon being killed, regular muds do not have such competition. In PVE, everyone is going to have to spend somewhat equal amounts of time getting to the end game, some will do it very slow, others will be faster and some will use scripts to gain an eficiency bonus. I am in no way an advocate of 24/7 scripted botting, but i do advocate using scripts to make things more efficient.