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Thread: AFK goes bye-bye!
NewJedi wrote:
Sam, I appreciate your selflessness in creating a bot, but the motives for botting don't change their destructive influence. They drastically devalue live entertainers. I'd rather see that cantina empty than populated by a bot.When I play a fighter,if I happen upon such a cantina, I'll leave and go find a real entertainer.
Botting is not the vision of the entertainer Raph Koster had in mind. He had in mind precisely the opposite: a social player.SWG is supposed to appeal to every type of person in the Bartle MMO test: the Killer (combat types), Achiever (Jedi, crafters), Explorer (scout and ranger), and Socializer (entertainers, politician, maybe medics).
More generally, isbotting the kind of gameplay you want in other MMOs? Do you want Blizzard to add bots and AFK'ing to World of Warcraft? Would bots make WoW a better game? Do you want EQ2 to support botting? How does that possibly make the game sound more fun?
Message Edited by NewJedi on 08-02-2004 07:39 PM
To be honest, I don't play WoW, EQ2 or any other MMORPG. I just play SWG.
And I know what it's like to be out hunting in the middle of nowhere, pull out the map and find the nearest cantina, cross the countryside to get there, and find it empty. Now if a simple AFKentertainer were there, I would sit for a minute or two and go right back to playing the game. But instead, I have to wait on the shuttle (or head out across the coutryside again), then wait at the starport, then go to the cantina in Theed or Coronet, sit for a few minutes, catch the flight back to whatever planet I was on, catch the shuttle back to where I started, and then get back to playing the game.
Can you see where this could be a problem? Especially for the casual player who only plays for a short period of time? This is why I put out my second account and let her go while I'm gone.
Nijel_The_Destroyer wrote:
NewJedi wrote:Sam, I appreciate your selflessness in creating a bot, but the motives for botting don't change their destructive influence. They drastically devalue live entertainers. I'd rather see that cantina empty than populated by a bot. When I play a fighter, if I happen upon such a cantina, I'll leave and go find a real entertainer.Botting is not the vision of the entertainer Raph Koster had in mind. He had in mind precisely the opposite: a social player. SWG is supposed to appeal to every type of person in the Bartle MMO test: the Killer (combat types), Achiever (Jedi, crafters) , Explorer (scout and ranger), and Socializer (entertainers, politician, maybe medics).More generally, is botting the kind of gameplay you want in other MMOs? Do you want Blizzard to add bots and AFK'ing to World of Warcraft? Would bots make WoW a better game? Do you want EQ2 to support botting? How does that possibly make the game sound more fun?Message Edited by NewJedi on 08-02-2004 07:39 PM
To be honest, I don't play WoW, EQ2 or any other MMORPG. I just play SWG.
And I know what it's like to be out hunting in the middle of nowhere, pull out the map and find the nearest cantina, cross the countryside to get there, and find it empty. Now if a simple AFK entertainer were there, I would sit for a minute or two and go right back to playing the game. But instead, I have to wait on the shuttle (or head out across the coutryside again), then wait at the starport, then go to the cantina in Theed or Coronet, sit for a few minutes, catch the flight back to whatever planet I was on, catch the shuttle back to where I started, and then get back to playing the game.
Can you see where this could be a problem? Especially for the casual player who only plays for a short period of time? This is why I put out my second account and let her go while I'm gone.
If you read some of the Solutions to this, you will know next time you pull out your map, which cantinas have entertainers in them before you set out. This will probably urge Entertainers to make good use of the /Register function and thus light the cantina up on the map. Then you will be able to find Entertainers to loose battle fatigue and possibly a buff.