Beating the Harvest Bot.
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:03 pm
Now, before you freak out and nail me to a cross, hear me out.
I've found that, while we may be able to click through mobs, we cannot click through other players. Generally, what happens, is when a player gets in between the mouse pointer and the node, the bot acts as if the node has been exhausted and runs to the next point. Not a big deal to me, but it's a way of detecting the bot that may or may not have crossed the minds of the people working on the project.
Now. I'm more of a legit player, but there's some days where I just don't want to work for myself, just like the rest of you. But when I'm actually farming, I can generally tell who's using this bot to farm lol. I simply walk in the way and they run off leaving the node to myself ^_~
While I do like this when I'm actually farming for myself rather than having the bot farm for me, I understand that the people working on projects such as this are usually looking for something to overcome and work out (At least I do since I love debugging code. I know, I'm a messed up individual. I also find farming in MMOs to be the funnest part.)
Obviously, there's a few ways to correct this such as making it rescan before actually running away from the node or finding a way to click through other players, but how it's corrected is up to the project managers.
I just felt that I'd inform the public of this, not to cause hate, but to make a better bot even though I rarely use it. I play my game my way, you play your game your way. No reason we can't all get along ^_^
I've found that, while we may be able to click through mobs, we cannot click through other players. Generally, what happens, is when a player gets in between the mouse pointer and the node, the bot acts as if the node has been exhausted and runs to the next point. Not a big deal to me, but it's a way of detecting the bot that may or may not have crossed the minds of the people working on the project.
Now. I'm more of a legit player, but there's some days where I just don't want to work for myself, just like the rest of you. But when I'm actually farming, I can generally tell who's using this bot to farm lol. I simply walk in the way and they run off leaving the node to myself ^_~
While I do like this when I'm actually farming for myself rather than having the bot farm for me, I understand that the people working on projects such as this are usually looking for something to overcome and work out (At least I do since I love debugging code. I know, I'm a messed up individual. I also find farming in MMOs to be the funnest part.)
Obviously, there's a few ways to correct this such as making it rescan before actually running away from the node or finding a way to click through other players, but how it's corrected is up to the project managers.
I just felt that I'd inform the public of this, not to cause hate, but to make a better bot even though I rarely use it. I play my game my way, you play your game your way. No reason we can't all get along ^_^
