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Hello. this is Silkroad Online.

In this week, we posted the massive bot punishment list as we promised.

Bot punishment depends on users action related to illegal programs.

Purchasing Silk will not prevent user from bot punishment. And nothing can justify illegal programs.

Therefore, we are reminding our users to understand regarding to this bot punishment, and avoid illegal programs.

Lol yea right.

time will tell

It's good to hear (read) them say that, and I've heard about enough silk buyers being banned to believe it. Hopefully the bans will continue to increase in number and happen more regularly.

It'd be nice to see a ban list come out with ever member of a well-known bot guild banned. I'd almost even go as far as to suggest (temporarily) banning legits that happen to be in a bot guild. That individual isn't botting, but is supporting bots.

lol. couldn't resist to reply in here.
there's a big difference in saying and doing, keep that in mind.

Hows'you all? I'm doing fine. I hope (for all you players) SRO is better than when I left.

They have never banned mass amount of botters which buy silk, and they never will.

If Joymax bans all silkbuying bots, then there will be a huge charge back and then Joymax will fail at money just liek all those banks.

The chargeback will be enormous and i think ppl who get unbanned will get banned again and then wil do chargeback but wheres a crisis there an obama
so just wait for obama to play sro

Those who had premium and got banned are unbanned. haha... <_<

if they ban the bots that buy silk, joymax will lose so much money. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO BUY SILK ARE BOTTERS!!!<<TRUTH<< most of the people i know said, "I'm gonna keep boting lol. If I get banned I will just quit." (along the lines of that)
if they really want more people to keep playing and not bot, they should really make it easier to level.

i have to agree with the dificult to lvl up part, specially since the center theme of the game is the 'triangular conflit and the trading of silk between europe, asia and china' because you might think you can enjoy the game fully at lvl 68 but thats until you try to trade with some friends and get overun by a party with 6 - 8 full farm lvl 90s. you almost cannot enjoy trading/hunting without being lvl 80+ and preferably lvl 90 yourself/

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That is not because the game is hard to level (agreed it does take a while). The reason the job system is so hard at low levels is because so many people feel it's necessary to bot and/or power level to cap. If people didn't do that, a large majority of the server would probably be lvl 50 or below. Perhaps average level would be around 30-45, determined people get up in the 60s, and the few "elite" manage to reach 80-90.

If the server was laid out that way, the job system would be easier for lower levels, and people wouldn't feel the need to race to cap as much.

Don't blame it on the "hard to level" aspect. Blame it on people being lazy and greedy.

thatz rigth, i start in a new serv and im full farm with 650k sp and i cant even make trades 1* bcoz those fkcing thieves lure kokorus or gigant to me and BOOM im dead

I guess joymax allready achieved there goals only by threating the illegal program users, botters are afraid to login the game now and most of the server is accessible any time of the day.
Good idea joymax

Wrong. The reason why servers were populated, the loader from rumata (correct me if I'm wrong) wasn't out, yet. Until he released it there were like 1500 spots in each server (except Babel). About 30 minutes after it was released the servers were crowded, same story as before the inspection.

True that, almost everyone I know uses the Loader. but still, its all the lvl 80's-90's doing this wanting to farm more chars and get more higher lvl chars. in Troy a persn named Evil_Ben has like maybe more then 15 chars and continues to make more. its really annoying.

Yeah the whole power leveling thing has gotten WAY out of hand. It's bad enough that some people are so lazy that they have to either bot or power level their main character to the cap... but now when those lazy people get done with that, they use that capped character to power level 7 other of their own noob characters because they want to have a bunch of different builds and are too lazy to do it themselves.

So then when I go out to grind, I'm stuck around a bunch of high level characters that constantly KS me with a trail of noobs following them on horses. Luckily, I can just ask a guildie to come out with a 'bot trap' or such to get rid of them

With this bot problems, can we just kill them? Like PK them or something?

As newbie player without money (so without silk), but loving the game for it's possibilities, it bothers me, that I hardly can get in the game on any server
And I can imagine, that there are people who want to get in, no matter what.
So if it's the so called botters who keep regular players from entering the game, then I can imagine you bann them!

Also there are numerous "players" on several servers that probably use some kind of programm to get 10 or 20 of the same on a server...at least, it looks like that, seeing them all run in the same direction and doing the same at once.

Yes, it has been that way for quite some time. I sometimes see 3 or 4 or 10 characters running around, in sync, fighting mobs. They do the exact same moves at the exact same time like a drumline in a high school or university marching band competition.

yea, what's more so annoying than leveling is having to farm sp. and i mean, it's getting hard to do that by yourself now especially with party mobs running around everywhere all the time because of powerlevelers.

Its called good business $_$

I hate bots who talk like: shit i just raised 40% i wanted level up stupid ks here need other spot fk gold botters, They dont know how it is to get ksed while training manualy that makes me sick.
Im level 53 now and penon warrior has some spots with 1 gold botter ksing me so thats nice.
I hate when like 7 gold bots walk around and try kill the same mob for example: Mijigis 3 days after bot ban

I'm sorry to say, unless you're on a new server, Euro's don't get many parties, so I have to take what I can. I do end up getting powerleveled sometimes, but it's not enough, and by a certain point, it doesn't matter, because on Olympus the botters outnumber the legits, so we can't even party play well, unless we have one character in the party slightly higher level - which is darn close to a powerlevel. So, I just take what I can get.

Although, there have been times in our union where we've gotten 5-6 mixed Euro/Chinese in a party and it works great...it's just not often enough.



If only...there would be nobody botting then, and the server would just die a quick death. Joymax knows this, thus the "bot bans" slack off after a while (am I the only one who remembers the same thing happening last year?) Pretty annoying, really, but they are good at making money off of EVERYONE, botters and legits included.

No botters = about 1/10th the servers required for legits, and the growth of legits would be much slower, meaning less $$ for Joymax for a period of about a year. They'd rather just play around and make it look like they care about bots.

I have no problem grinding in a party with someone that's several levels higher than the rest of the party, as long as the party is actually grinding - not just sitting on horses. I like to know that I'm at least doing something to help the party, instead of just sitting there collecting exp and sp.

When I do auto share parties, it's usually just my wife and I with maybe 1 or two other random euro/china players (if we're lucky). It's certainly not as good as a full 8/8 euro party, but is more fun than solo grinding, even if the exp gains aren't any better than solo.

I'd much rather go that route than to just sit on a horse pressing the hotkey for my transport recovery kits occasionally.

NICE.... But will you ever remove the spammers in every town? A daily removal of them would be very helpful to the legit players.

IMO, no joymax shouldn't ban these spammers. I HATE having to re-block them every week, just because joymax wants to satisfy us.

lool, joymax barely bans a silk purchaser, it was just this 1 week they banned alot on rev6 that had premium, then after that... BYEBYE

I have seen ONE silk buyer bannhammered. And that was because he dared jm to ban him in globals