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No game is every Bot free, to some extent there will always be bots in every game.
Where time is more valuable than playing the game there will be bots.

or just play vSRO, there are a lot of events and has GM's care.

true

if iSRO set prestige as the highest priority, there'd be more action from Joynax's side

some choices:

1.) live with it
2.) quit silkroad
3.) explore another MMORPG
4.) play Diablo II again while waiting for Diablo III

as long as nice/legit players are the minority the answer is forever

Its a game, your talking like your waiting for apocalypse.

Waiting is maybe the wrong strategy...

Lets approach the things objectively. The following lists reflect my personal experience and don't contain any exceptions.

Bot's strengths

• higher level
• better equipment
• better skilled
• much higher number of players
• has more gold
• levels up fast when he bots 24/7

Bot's weaknesses

• doesn't know his skills (key smasher)
• bad at party grinding and party pvp
• afk most of the time

So all we have to do is use their weaknesses. Simple, isn't it?

• Grind in parties, you can level very fast if you do it properly (there are many guides for that on this forum).
• Fight in parties and learn how to fight in a team.
• Team up with other legits. If you imitate the bots you won't succed. Join/create a legit guild/union on your server. It's a multiplayer game so don't play it alone, that's what the botters try to do. Nobody is a one-man-army, neither a legit nor a bot.
• Don't bother being outnumbered, it means nothing as long as your team has a strategy and they have not. 95% of the botters fight like monsters, good for us!
• learn how to get rid of a ks bot
• Create a team as fast as you can! Don't give away this advantage. It's hard work so start with that as soon as you can!
• save-zone buffers and un-jobbed clerics are farly overestimated...

mhhh, back to your questions

- Isn't it equal to make them quit the game? Just kill them 3 times and they are demoralized.


- There is a thing called chat block. Block & kill (with a pvp party, of course!)


- what's so bad about them? Half of them get hacked by their kind, the other half can be killed - guess how - in a pvp party.


- right after we scared the bots away


- party grind, problem solved


- that's what the bots try to do, they think lv 90FF is the only game goal... Aren't we legits more intelligent?


- Though, this depends on what player you are. All I can suggest is try playing with other legits and try ignoring the bots, or consider the bots as zombies

lol

Most of the things u wrote here r truth but how to explain this to other players that just want to get lvl90 ASAP and go kill lower lvls in pvp??? Most of my friends doesn't use bot but they think like bot (no brain no pain)... Yesterday i was traying to find relevant party for killing bunwank and i ended up spammed by bunch of low lvl n00bz yelling "FREE TAXI PLS"... I's this the game i started to play year and a half ago? No, now it's BOTROAD ONLINE or THINK LIKE A BOTTER ONLINE... I wish that all ppl on Alex r like u, then i will have some fun playing this game with FRIENDS...

Till the day you buy more silk than botters

This guy has the right idea.

Cry me a river ... Where did you get that bots are non skilled?
There are stupid people, there are smart people, there is no "skilled" or "no skilled" in Silkroad.
I know 99999 botters that play their characters awesome.
You sound like a bunch of f-tards when you say bots are stupid.
Legits are stupid too, its totally irrelevant is someone botting or not, he's stupid by natural.

You just didnt see a stupid capped legit, because he isnt capable of getting to cap.

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no... YOUR not capable of getting to cap. legits lvl faster then bots cuz althou they bot 24/7... 10hrs of that are wall humping.also bots dont grind like a legit, they will walk miles just for a giant or w.e its not a good way of killing.

bots are stupid. the player behind it might be smart but he looses his smartness when he goes over to a lvl 34 nuker or w.e and kills him for 20mins till the other guy can finally get into safezone.

+1, Sad does have the right ideas about a lot of the game.

Looks like the general consensus is that it's pointless to wait for the game to turn around and for JM to enforce any of their rules and ban these botters, so focus on the game's positive aspects and run with those. Run your own race, find a good group of legit friends, and don't worry so much about keeping up with the unscrupulous characters - they usually end up on the cutting room floor eventually.

Greed, and the need for some people to be the 'best,' is always going to drive some players to break the rules, whether they are 15 years old or 50. Happens in life, so will happen in the game too

lol want ur answer? call jm and ull get a bot talking to you ^^
joymax is run by bots lol (sarcasm)

prolly b4 100 cap comes jm might actualy fix servers for a bit

If this is about pvp, then well.. most botters are not as skilled/smart/good at pvp as legits simply because they do not know what their skills do, or how to use them.
EG: warriors, there is not a single warrior i'v seen who is comptent with his subclass and able to juggle all 3 weps at once on Zeus, why? Because they are afk botting with their 2h's. Compare this to Venus where you see warriors who blend warrior/cleric together very well, by use of overheals, healing cycle, axe's and 1h for example.

or tl;dr, botters often arnt as skilled as legits at pvp unless they have alot of practise with their char, or visit forums such as this one to read up on how to actually use their char.

Ignorance is a bliss.

Keep living in your pitty, absurd, blind view of Silkroad.



I dont see why they wouldnt be able... If someone PvP's for week (3 hours a day) - with his botted up lv.90 FF character, watches few videos at youtube of other people playing, practices weapon switching and reading forum a little bit, I dont see no reason why he couldnt play his character at full potential?

Silkroad cape fights arent rocket science, there are much more skill-required things in other MMOs (example Pvp at Guild Wars (Guild Wars - MMORPG)).

I bet I could play any character there is, good as someone that played him for two years, if you give me 1 week to practice it a little bit.
For party play - vent and a group of understanding people who are capable of doing something , with capped characters - you can rule the world.


Oh and for god's sake, dont be such limited in thinking ... Dont you think people, even if they are botting/powerleveling themself (till cap), dont have a little bit wish in themselves, to put up a cape and try PvPing a bit? I'm sure they do.
I dont think that they bot up till cap, and doing nothing else. Sounds boring...
So botters, no matter how you turn it, have PvP experience.

Till pigs can fly
the only thing that annoys me is that it's becoming harder and harder to clean your training area

GENERALLY speaking...

...bots who have been legit before do better in PvP then bots that dont.

...bots that have played for a longer time do better in PvP then bots who have played for a shorter time.

...bots who have a higher IQ tend to do better in PvP then bots who have a lower one.

...lvl 90 legits tend to do better in PvP then a lvl 90 bot.

Why? The dumb, ignorant, poor legits never cap. For a bot, all those masses of people who don't deserve to get past lvl 30 manage to cap. Sure, there might be a few that know how to pvp, but thats a stretch. The few bots that i've seen that have a slight knowledge of PvP are mainly former legits who use the pathetic excuse that they "don't have the time." Even those are mostly skilled in chinese style 1vs1, get them in a team and they get raped.

You would be suprised the number of times friends have pm'd me with things such as "zomfg come to samarkand and watch this" only to use the bard skill Tempation on a mob, or realize that with trap/sleep the oppenent cant move or attack, the most skilled/best glaivers i'v seen and fought against for example actually make use of the chain spear and wolfbit series, rather then just spam SS,GS,WS,FD over and over again, just like the best s/s nukers i'v seen do things other then debuff, KD, nuke, debuff over and over, the longer a person is legit the more combination of skills they find that work, and they know when to use them. That is what im trying to say.

Oh yeah? I'm not that much into glavies, but I heared chains for Glavie sucks...?

Most people don't use chains in PvP because they were told they suck, but let me tell you something; it is hard to pot against High DPS. I avoid wolf bite and the chains, but they do have a purpose. They're not useless. Glaiver Chains should be used for the same reason Blader Chains are used: DPS, but most people aren't willing to give up their reliable SSE-SSS combo.

*Hint: Chains and WB serve as good links between moves and also decrease the effectiveness of pots. At least that's what I noticed.

Another reason people don't to use chains is the fact that you might get knocked back or down during the time spent doing the 4-5 hits of the chain. For example. Let's say a glaiver is PvP'ing a bower. The bower just started casting demon arrow and the glaiver started a chain. Demon arrow hits, and is followed up by the arrow combo. The glaiver has wasted time, and has only managed to get two, maybe three hits of the chain across. Same goes for knockdown. A soul spear deals the same damage, but it's faster (two hits). Wolf bite is good at low levels, the lv 71 book is too slow for PvP, IMO. However, bladers can chain due to block and high defense.

A glaivers DPS is just fine with Emperor, Soul and Windless. However, as far as DPS for bowers is concerned: ALWAYS Demon Arrow before Strong Bow at the start of a PvP or after a Knockback! I think it should be clear to everyone why.

It's little things like these that can actually make a difference in the outcome of a fight. All it takes is a little skill, some game analysis abilities and a bit of logical thinking.

EDIT: I forgot to say pure STR glaive is the best build!

If they ban all player bots then how does joymax survie?? it will never happen?

You should try waiting as an employee. *sips coffee*

[edit] adding a link so you know what type of expectations Joymax requires to be an employee

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/search ... ery=joymax