Most classes have skills/spells which they rely on to be working with as much frequency as possible. Some of these skills/spells need to be perfected to reach the next level in skill/spell progression. Is it really belived that botting is not used? Is there some level of toleration for botting? Do these classes enjoy more lienecy than others? I find it really hard to belive that someone hand spams a 7 path invoker with 7 masteries without having some form of mental illness.

An excerpt from 'help rules':

"Using your client to play for you (botting), while ignoring everything
else going on around you is not roleplaying, and you will be punished
as such."


That pretty much sums up the botting question. Can you use a client to use triggers to help you practice. Yes. Can you use a client to do everything for you without interacting with anything else? Until you get caught and slain/denied for botting.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Think of it like a Turing test. If another player, possibly immortal, can interact with your character and come away thinking there's a congizant human being playing him then you're probably okay.

If they come away thinking you're a bot, then you're probably not.

Yup. Any Immortal who has the ability to snoop and echo has more than enough ways to tell the difference between a person and a script. Heck, any mortal who enters the room can probably tell as well.

There's no rule concerning triggers/etc., but there is one about roleplaying. The botting rule is best thought of as an extension of that rule.


valguarnera@carrionfields.com

I've always been curious about how tolerant the staff is towards spammed commands. If I spam ten castings of a spell and a mob starts talking to me right after the first...am I going to be considered a bot if I don't respond immediately?

Gray area, though 10 is clearly on the safe side.

If you have, say, 50 commands in your queue, it's going to be very hard for you to be interactive or vaguely 'human'. I don't have a hard number in mind, but it's probably a good idea from an RP standpoint to make sure you're at least semi-responsive. If you're at the keyboard, spamming large batches isn't a big time saver over medium batches anyway.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

Yep, recently my newbie mage stood somewhere practicing a spell via some script, i was sitting right next to my terminal reading, when i got this tell

Someone tells you "Hello".

When i replied to the tell, no one was there, so my guess is that it was an immortal that just wanted to see if i botted or not?!