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KaVir · 09-10-2007, 08:56 AM

Well technically you don't earn primal for killing another player - you take it, and you can't take what they don't have. So the bot would have to run around earning the primal (at a much slower rate than a regular player) before you could transfer it to the other character.

The bot would also have to be around the same age as you (or higher) because of the way PK primal is calculated - kill a bot weaker than yourself and you could even lose primal. So while you could feed on the bot for a little while, you'd very quickly outpace it.

Another thing I forgot to mention is 'safe primal', which works exactly like regular primal except that it's spent before regular primal and cannot be stolen. You only earn safe primal from one-shot activities, such as exploring new areas or completing tasks, so they're irrelevant from a botting perspective (there's no point botting something you can only do once, and you can't transfer it between characters). You earn 100 primal for discovering each of the (currently 78) areas, while the tasks give between 1500 and 25000 primal each. To put that in context, killing a mob of your own strength gives 100 primal (or 250 boosted).

09-10-2007, 08:56 AM	#15
KaVir Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Name: Richard Home MUD: God Wars II Posts: 2,052	Re: Need some help making... Well technically you don't earn primal for killing another player - you take it, and you can't take what they don't have. So the bot would have to run around earning the primal (at a much slower rate than a regular player) before you could transfer it to the other character. The bot would also have to be around the same age as you (or higher) because of the way PK primal is calculated - kill a bot weaker than yourself and you could even lose primal. So while you could feed on the bot for a little while, you'd very quickly outpace it. Another thing I forgot to mention is 'safe primal', which works exactly like regular primal except that it's spent before regular primal and cannot be stolen. You only earn safe primal from one-shot activities, such as exploring new areas or completing tasks, so they're irrelevant from a botting perspective (there's no point botting something you can only do once, and you can't transfer it between characters). You earn 100 primal for discovering each of the (currently 78) areas, while the tasks give between 1500 and 25000 primal each. To put that in context, killing a mob of your own strength gives 100 primal (or 250 boosted).