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Theres a lot of good features...first off its open pvp based like L2 is, yet the enemy race can kill you without consequence. That will put a stop in the best areas, but I suppose there is nothing you can do against bots in you own factions territories. However, when you farm a type of mob too long, it will eventually grow stronger and stronger until you cannot kill it...because with a questing based system there is no reason to farm the same area for 1 hour +. There were some pretty advanced scripts for L2walker that allowed it to complete hour or even 5 hour long quests for you, but those are the class change quests that everyone had to do...so they would be more common. If someone is botting for their own benefit of exp and not farming, its not a really big deal...the problem is bot trains and groups of bots that farm raid bosses and the best areas...If questing is the way to make money, then bots wouldn't have much use except for repeatable ones...and htey could easily implement a system that wouldnt allow big money bonuses from repeatable quests.
I think the bot problem would be somewhat like WoW...just bots in towns yelling and shouting stuff, not many bots that farm.
Personally I think the best way (I know I've said it before) is the L2p server I play on. The head dev coded the bot programming into the game emulator (l2walker, and 1 other bot program, i cant think of the name). It makes your game always think the bot program is running, so when you try to run it yourself it says its always running. It seems like a simple solution, but its tested and true after 15 months of the server's life....I even have a guy in my clan with a degree in Computer Sciences and he couldn't find a way to get around the coding (the game wont let you connect with any altered files except options), however he did find a way to get out of game (you cant see what's going on in the game) botting to work, but that is extremely risky, because all it takes is 1 player to see you, alert a GM, and you lose everything....When I was first moving to the server my clan had about 60-70 people coming, when they realized they couldnt bot the number dropped to about 20 :O...I have been playing there for over a year, and have never seen 1 single bot.
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