Blocking a minimum ~MINIMUM~ of 9 adena sellers DAILY who are PM'ing me just in Giran. I try not to go to Dion, Gludio or Gludin because the chat is inundated with adena sellers spamming every 2 seconds in general chat AS WELL AS PMing PLAYERS!
i am using the "block adena seller" function in the right-click block option. i was happy to see this in the beginning because i thought this was data NCSoft would actually use to ban these characters. Apparently I was wrong.
Having my hunting corner taken over by bots is a daily occurrence. MULTIPLE times per day i have to move on to prevent being KS'd by bots. it doesn't matter that i am there first, they move in and leave me with nothing to kill. i report them as bots but i am limited to 6 reports daily. it isn't enough.
I am honestly afraid to complain because i know how NCSoft has addressed these kinds of issues in the past. Adena sellers spamming general chat, PM's and mailing players with their crap turned into NOBODY being able to chat until level 76. THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION!! and this penalizes ALL LEGITIMATE PLAYERS. New players coming to L2 (now LIVE) cannot talk to anyone and so they leave. how can they get help when they can't chat and don't understand the concept of party invite to be able to talk to someone? So NCSoft has deliberately handicapped the game by discouraging new players.
RMTers are allowed to set up bots to further funding their adena and gear acquisitions in-game. This has always been the case! Hey, NCSoft, i'm here spending a lot of money on NCoin and YOU BANNED MY BOTS!! don't do that to me!! i need to be the best! So in its wisdom, NCSoft stops banning bots to avoid insulting the people who pay their bills. again, this is NOT a solution!
No selling adena, no botting are all announced in the EULA, terms and conditions of play as well as reiterated here in the forums time and time again. The bots continue to multiply, they are not being banned. there has been NO REAL SOLUTION to ANY of this issue! And as always, legitimate players are penalized. We are penalized having to endure the endless spam from adena sellers. we are penalized having to block them and report them, adding to an experience of in-game and constant frustration. we are penalized in the fields, being KS'ed, having our fields overrun by bots, not enough buttons to push to report them all and nothing being done to eliminate them when we do report them.
Now we have this XIGN3CODE thing. what is it? what does it do? Oh, it's some kind of security system to recognize third-party programs being used in Lineage2? well, NCSoft, guess what.....................................................................................................................................it's broken. there are no live GM's in the game monitoring any of this....
in my opinion if NCSoft would put live GM's in the game to monitor and immediately ban people who are violating THEIR rules that would send a message out to other would-be bots and adena sellers that, hey, NCSoft is taking this stuff seriously and doing something about it. it would dramatically slow the influx of these nefarious bastards into the realm and make for a much happier playing experience by legitimate players. it would not need to be a forever thing, but a hard hit all at once, get rid of the riffraff then monitor it over time after that.
the bot reporting button is a nice thing to have but what we are all seeing is that it is being abused. someone pisses you off in the field, you report them as a bot. yeah.. not what it's for folks.... don't waste your six clicks on legitimate people. be adult about this... report the bots. you're complicating things not only for your fellow legitimate players but for NCSoft as well. the legitimate people who are being reported seem to be the only ones who are getting banned.
i guess in short, if you want a successful playing experience in Lineage2 without being banned, be a bot!!! those seem to be the ONLY characters NCSoft really doesn't care about........................
@Juji @Hime thanks for what you try to do for us. too bad you don't have a little more autonomy to actually fix the real problems.........