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Ederyn

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  1. Hi! I'm a new player in the server (veteran L2 player in illegal servers) and because of the ruins of agony & abandoned camp situation today i seriously considered leaving. Its impossible to kill a single mob. After thinking about it in depth, i was able to get a couple of answers, but first the situation: - These are clearly adena farming bots, they are all White elven mages, because they require little equipment at the beggining, its a well oiled and automated machine where they get buffs at Gludin GK before going to farm, and go back to their place after being killed, the only thing you get after killing them all and clearing the area is a huge increase in your PK count and penalties. This is not the approach. - A secondary/dependent economy has appeared where there are players (not sure if bots or not) that only purpose is to pick up all the items the bots leave on the ground. These are all dwarves because of the carrying capacity/weight limit. - The begginer quests send all the new players to the same area: first ruins of agony, then abandoned camp. Both areas give a good amount of XP and adena for the lvl, and have a nice density of monsters, so you have good efficiency there. The main problem is that its impossible to fulfill the quest requirements killing the monsters because the bots one-spell kill all the mobs, and all the area is filled with bots. If you are lucky you'll find a little area where there are 2 monsters that arent reached by any bot and you can kill those (if there is not another desperate player using that area already). You have to kill 300 monsters in abandoned camp and its really difficult to do it in the current situation. So, a proposed solution that is not perfect but would improve the situation: - Lineage 2 has a huge map, that is one of the reasons i love the game, as a veteran player i know all the zones to lvl up at any lvl from the C4 to H5 maps.... DONT SEND ALL THE NEW PLAYERS TO THE SAME AREA. Expand the list of monsters that give you the quest items. BUT dont increase the amount of monsters (density of monsters in the zone) or the amount of adena the monsters give in these other areas, this would attract the bots. Basically what i'm saying is: leave the shitty areas to the honest players, at least let us do a solid progress in the starting-up quests. Some of these areas (if not changed in this version) are: Ruins of Despair, Dion hills, Plains of Dion, Cruma marshlands, the outside of town of Gludio, Partisans Hideaway, Orc barracks, Forgotten Temple, Windmill Hill maybe?... I used to go a lot to Execution Grounds but that zone is not spawning monsters anymore. Catacombs of Heretics is closed, idk if its for some seven-signs stuff or if this is permanent... Because of density of monsters, probably low-lvl catacombs and necropolis would be a bot-magnet anyways. - I'm not sure if the bots use the bot-systen that is implemented in the game, but if they do, making the Manner Mode obligatory would help a little bit. Other ideas i had: - Is the PK system more severe? i dont remember getting that much karma when killing. If that is lowered maybe doing a mass-murder of white elven low-level wizards would be an option for lvl 40+ players with a lot of hate to adena farms. I've seen that PK system was a hot topic in the forums with bully players so i understand the measures and that is a complex topic, so dont consider this one too seriously, probably will give more problems than solutions. - i've noticed a reduction in the amount of aggressive monsters in low lvl areas. (some monsters that i remember being agressive are now passive), Increasing the ammount of aggresive monsters would be a measure against bots (and unexperienced players... but they'll grow eventually) overall. I though about this one, and i believe it wont have a big impact on the adena farms, the number of bots that these farms have is just too overwhelming and its suprising how these elven wizards just one-shot everything.
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