(Cross-posted to the JMTC forums.)
A couple weeks ago I made some tentative forays into the Enchanting scrolls market only to discover a bot was reposting constantly. I reported him every time my ticket came back with a form letter, but he is still there. Even worse, he has moved into glyphs, cards, leg patches and belt buckles, slowly spreading from one market to the next. I know he is constantly reposting because I can post over and over and am always undercut by him, even immediately after I post. Taking advantage of my currently open schedule I have spied at all hours of the day, and he is always on - midnight, 3 AM, 5 AM, 11 AM, 3 PM, 10 PM.... Always. He is never offline.
All the times I have whispered him he has never replied, but I got to chatting with a couple competitors today and they had some information. Apparently they have spoken with the botter. He claims to have 4 accounts, 60 of each glyph and 30k IotS. He says he does not bot and that his roommate posts while he sleeps.
To me, this reeks of bullshit. Who in their right mind would sit at a computer for 16 hours hitting post every two minutes, and then when they were tired would have a roommate from heaven to take over the shift for 8 hours while you sleep? WTF? My roommates barely clean up their crap, they would never agree to anything like that - not even my most deadbeat of acquaintances would. So I think he is running a bot and is nearby while it goes.
I've reported him numerous times. I've reported all his characters. I've had guildmates report him, my competitors report him, random people in Trade report him. Blizz is refusing to do anything as he tears the market down using an impossible schedule with superhuman posting.
I know who is main is. What can I do with this information?
What can I do at all? I've talked to one of my more serious competitors and we are thinking about doing a 2-3g wall. To make his hideous labor a mere 1g profit, if he can get past our reposting. Personally I am thinking of walling even lower - I will lose money but the satisfaction would be worth it. Buying and relisting is futile because he will repost even before you finish getting the glyph from your mailbox.
I'm at a real loss. =( I don't like robots.
Addendum: Glyph wall going up. Didn't want to do it, but if Blizz won't do anything, I will.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"My" farmer got banned. =( About a week ago I noticed he hadn't logged on in a couple days, I suppose Warden caught up with him. He and a couple other bots have not been around, so the AH is back to hosting one page of overpriced herbs. For some reason Eternal Life is still available at normal prices (Frozo?).
Thank goodness I stocked up. "Buy everything, even if you don't need it right now," is a great rule to AH by! I have 3 guild bank tabs of IoTS and a mailbox full of herbs, plenty to last me until the next farmer surfaces.
Thank goodness I stocked up. "Buy everything, even if you don't need it right now," is a great rule to AH by! I have 3 guild bank tabs of IoTS and a mailbox full of herbs, plenty to last me until the next farmer surfaces.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Botters, how do I love thee?
Let me count the ways....
Botters are annoying, especially to legitimate farmers. They are unstoppable forces that cannot be competed against. No matter how hard or how long you farm, you can't beat them. For a real, player farmer, they are irritating, even rage-provoking. For a crafter, they are your best friend.
Ripples passed through the gold-making community about two months ago when, suddenly and across many servers, herbs, ore, and leather disappeared from the Auction House. Prices soared from 12/g stack of Saronite Ore to 36g or more per stack. Casual scribes were forced to give up the market, faced with an absence of supplies for their business. What happened?
A little sleuthing digs up that Blizzard released a new version of Warden, their anti-cheating program, and broke or blocked many if not all of the prominent botting programs. For farmers, this meant huge profits from material-hungry crafters. For crafters and buyers, it meant a massive market overhaul starting from the ground up. It took several weeks, but eventually the increased price of mats bumped up the prices of crafted items. From what I've seen prices have stayed high since then as people get discouraged and abandon the markets.
Today, for the first time since the ban wave, I saw Saronite Ore for 12g and 13g a stack. Huzzah! In the last two weeks I've lowered my snatch numbers from 20g to 15g for Saronite, 15g to 9g for Tiger Lily, and 25g to 15g for Adder's Tongue.
From buying so many items I know that there are approximately 2-4 botters on my server and a few more seem to have showed up. Great news for me - since I am one of the most diverse and large-scale sellers on my realm, I snap up their mats, process them, and profit. As more people quit the game before Cataclysm I predict that in the coming months my profits may increase based on more crafters leaving the game (I have already seen this happen in the epic gem market). For now, I'll continue to buy and sell, and tip my hat to the botters that make a good crafting market possible.
Botters are annoying, especially to legitimate farmers. They are unstoppable forces that cannot be competed against. No matter how hard or how long you farm, you can't beat them. For a real, player farmer, they are irritating, even rage-provoking. For a crafter, they are your best friend.
Ripples passed through the gold-making community about two months ago when, suddenly and across many servers, herbs, ore, and leather disappeared from the Auction House. Prices soared from 12/g stack of Saronite Ore to 36g or more per stack. Casual scribes were forced to give up the market, faced with an absence of supplies for their business. What happened?
A little sleuthing digs up that Blizzard released a new version of Warden, their anti-cheating program, and broke or blocked many if not all of the prominent botting programs. For farmers, this meant huge profits from material-hungry crafters. For crafters and buyers, it meant a massive market overhaul starting from the ground up. It took several weeks, but eventually the increased price of mats bumped up the prices of crafted items. From what I've seen prices have stayed high since then as people get discouraged and abandon the markets.
Today, for the first time since the ban wave, I saw Saronite Ore for 12g and 13g a stack. Huzzah! In the last two weeks I've lowered my snatch numbers from 20g to 15g for Saronite, 15g to 9g for Tiger Lily, and 25g to 15g for Adder's Tongue.
From buying so many items I know that there are approximately 2-4 botters on my server and a few more seem to have showed up. Great news for me - since I am one of the most diverse and large-scale sellers on my realm, I snap up their mats, process them, and profit. As more people quit the game before Cataclysm I predict that in the coming months my profits may increase based on more crafters leaving the game (I have already seen this happen in the epic gem market). For now, I'll continue to buy and sell, and tip my hat to the botters that make a good crafting market possible.
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