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Date:    2015 Aug 22 10:22
From:    dentin
Subject: Botting
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I've been monitoring the Shouldice bot situation for a while.  Over the past
few months, I've had him change a number of things that were particularly
annoying, but there's obviously still a lot of ways that people feel the bot
unfairly affects them.  For this reason, I am considering various extensions
and additions to the botting rules, as well as a couple minor code changes.

The code changes should be uncontroversial - add corpse loot protection to
both harvest teeth and bloodsac.  I don't really see any problems arising
from this, and could probably get it installed in a few days depending on my
work schedule.

The current proposed rule additions are:


1) Bots shall avoid killing mobs outside instances

If your bot tends to kill a lot of mobs, you should limit that killing to
instances.  Killing things repeatedly affects other players by changing the
way the mobs load.  Instances reduce the impact of this problem. If you're
asked to move your bot into an instance to keep it away from  non-botting
players, you should strongly consider doing so.


2) Bots shall be careful in cities

More specifically, bots should not interfere with the ordinary functioning
of mobs in any city flagged zone.  This includes things like killing
trainers, quest masters, and job givers, buying out or overloading
shopkeepers, slaughtering guards, spamming rooms with crap items, or
anything else that causes problems for other players who aren't botting.  


Comments?

-dentin


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