Whats the Deal with all the Scripters ?
In the history of this game have been always people doing something against any rules...dont tell me!
All thoose Egg Collectors in middle past, thoose idoc bots and of course thoose privileged people placing Castles, Keeps, 18x18 all nice spots...only them are able to place a decend spot, does anybody of our developer team leaded by Mesanna take notice ? Does anybody of them take care about this circumstances? It seems "no, they dont & they wont"! Why they are not interested to give every new player a chance to get a nice house without paying alot ingame gold or realcash for it. from where get new player alot of gold? easy answer...everybody should now. Why is nobody interested to solve this problem?
Current trend is now running rails in deceit, tram or fel, they dont care. Since weeks now they have been seen on every shard. Special on thoose PvP Event Weekends. Turn on script and defend my bots with my pvp toon...WTF is this Game going on? Outch...i forgot autowalls, autospells & autoheals...
But stop. We still have some GM´s too? Where are they? Are they arround? Of course they are arround. But it seems they are only availlable in a special time window? or they just show up for special people...arrrgh...i mean they will not show up if somebody paging their friends maybe ? And all thoose little villain know exactly at wich time they bring up their bots farming in dungeons on one point or by rail, autoattack, autoheal & autoinsure ftw! thoose people gain alot gold, plats and Cash $$ too!
Shouldnt GM´s are arround and availabe on every shard in their prime time? shouldnt GM´s watch and investigate what we report? Maybe sometimes out of their standart time?
Maybe its time for some more GM´s?
dont tell me...that im really pissed! :-P
All thoose Egg Collectors in middle past, thoose idoc bots and of course thoose privileged people placing Castles, Keeps, 18x18 all nice spots...only them are able to place a decend spot, does anybody of our developer team leaded by Mesanna take notice ? Does anybody of them take care about this circumstances? It seems "no, they dont & they wont"! Why they are not interested to give every new player a chance to get a nice house without paying alot ingame gold or realcash for it. from where get new player alot of gold? easy answer...everybody should now. Why is nobody interested to solve this problem?
Current trend is now running rails in deceit, tram or fel, they dont care. Since weeks now they have been seen on every shard. Special on thoose PvP Event Weekends. Turn on script and defend my bots with my pvp toon...WTF is this Game going on? Outch...i forgot autowalls, autospells & autoheals...
But stop. We still have some GM´s too? Where are they? Are they arround? Of course they are arround. But it seems they are only availlable in a special time window? or they just show up for special people...arrrgh...i mean they will not show up if somebody paging their friends maybe ? And all thoose little villain know exactly at wich time they bring up their bots farming in dungeons on one point or by rail, autoattack, autoheal & autoinsure ftw! thoose people gain alot gold, plats and Cash $$ too!
Shouldnt GM´s are arround and availabe on every shard in their prime time? shouldnt GM´s watch and investigate what we report? Maybe sometimes out of their standart time?
Maybe its time for some more GM´s?
dont tell me...that im really pissed! :-P
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Well, to my opinion, because of mostly these reasons....
1) - Even though the TOS forbids their use, apparently, there is not much consequences to using illegal Third Party clients and running scripts a go-go so, why not ?
2) - Players running scripts from unapproved, illegal Third Party clients, may be using free, disposable Endless Journey accounts which, even if they get banned, who cares....
3) - But the #1 main reason, I think, for using these scripts, is "motif"....
That is, that in doing that, players who do it, can do it AFK, thus, not using their own time at the keyboard but doing whatever else they may like.... they get items in the game which they then sell for hefty gold and then might sell this gold for real world money or perhaps sell the items themselves for real world money.
Basically, without using their time, players can raise real world money thanking to these scripts....
If players refused to buy either items or UO gold with real money, I would imagine that most, if not all of these AFK scripters, would magically disappear.....
Unfortunately, with a Design which "consumes" great bunches of players' time (time sink) to get certain items, there might be some players who might think that, rather then spending countless hours of their time in repetitive actions to farm gold or to get certain items in the game, they may be better off spending some of their real world money which took them way less time to earn, to buy that in game gold or items.... unfortunately, to my opinion, this might result in further incentivating some players to script, when they see that they can profit real money from that and, this, perhaps even without spending their time at the keyboard because scripting AFK....
And what could the Developers do in this regards ?
To my opinion, make obtaining items in UO without scripting, more readily possible....
As long as the Design of game mechanics calls for intensive time to be needed in the game to get certain items (time sink....), of course that there will be players who will resort to scripting or, if they do not want to use illegal Third Party clients to script, will spend real world money to buy the gold to then purchase those items in the game or to straight out purchase those items with real world money thus, somewhat, motivating some UO players to want to use scripts, even when illegal....
Change the Design of the game, make items, even high end items more readily available in the game without the need to script, and I think that scripting will go away, as well as Real Money Trades....
Wonder if anyone is actually responsible for UO’s internal controls. Would like to see this game survive but that does not appear to be the direction it is going. Sorry UO.
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Havent seen any bots on other shards I play. Dont forget: multi-window is allowed. Same as "folow me"bard after a warrior (though I never did this , i am no good with CC). . I played with 2 windows alst time in Hytloth , placing bard on the bridge. And running wth a warrior around. But never unattended : not funny )) Eggs event was awesome. Was able to get rewards on shards where I have no fiighting toon , just by making a mage and marking runes.
This is a good message for the anti-Fel people like @JohnKnighthawke to see that the reds don't actually all band together to prevent anyone from doing the event. Even someone with a new-ish toon was able to partake in the event and tally quite a few drops.
They often don't notice when they get killed. But when a GM addresses them, they wake up. Presumably there is a script for that as well.
I have also seen the bots in Deceit.
They run their rails and collect their drops.
In the PvP event they are protected by PKs.
Feel free to take a look for yourselves.
I don't think this thread will interest OSI, Mesanna or anyone else. Too bad.
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I think they ran from paying subs because fel only freebies are pretty packed with thousands of players. Especially the more modern one i can't name OUT loud.
yea, i agree with this based on what some people I play with have said, I haven't logged into any freeshards myself in at least a few years.... but i never bothered to check any shards that don't have pvp... I wonder how many people play on those free PvE shards?
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I can see maybe programming to allow only one client but don't see how the stop add on programs.
I thought i recognized some familiar names.
Thank you for proving my point. Publish 16 would never have happened had incentives not been needed to get people to play in Felucca.
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My sentiment remains, allowing for some population of the game to automate play ruins it for the rest of us. It also creates a slippery slope where as you have more people exploiting, more people feel forced to exploit to compete and/or not waste their time.
Do whatever is required to highly discourage the use of unauthorized 3rd party programs. Starting with clear rules and enforcement of those rule.