Hi there!
Just your friendly, neighborhood Tayl here with a suggestion that could possibly cure this botting disease that has been taking place since forever ago but more importantly, now is the time to really put the power in the servers hands since the recent cry out for help from the apparent "Absence of GM's". This is my suggestion and would love to hear from others on what they think of it (Please be courteous in your replies, this a serious post for a serious matter)
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THE PROBLEM" is just a rant for those not aware of what botting is, skip to "
THE SOLUTION" if you want to read the suggestion i have
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THE PROBLEM
First off, there's many types of botting. The main focus i want to bring forward is geared towards economical botting, from which the botting individual can obtain massive amounts of gold from selling daily quest items such as
Guard Dog Meat. This item in particular is a highly sought after commodity to those who really don't want to spend or have the time to do 10 dailies in which can take anywhere between 15 mins-an hour or more for some. Saves Time, Headaches, Boredom. Some may even argue that they love that dog meat is being botted cause it drives the price down. But there's just one problem to this, maybe some people just want to farm their own dog meat so that they don't have to pay the millions of gold they may not have, or they might just want to farm some up to sell to make money so they can purchase items the next time they want something. Yeah a very basic concept I'm explaining, the very ideal of what the Auction House is. The whole thing changes tho when you have a monopoly. That monopoly is farming stacks of meat while he/she is at work for hours on end. Does that sound fair to the players who are sitting in front of their keyboards? not at all.
"It's not Botting cause its not a third party program" .. can't tell you how many times i've heard this and its the most arrogant thing anyone can say about it. If you're not physically tab/click targeting and physically hitting your action bar to attack something.. you're botting. Bottom line. Almost every botting toon i've came across with are guildless. and why is that? These toons are guildless so that they don't die while they're afk due to another Guild declaring War upon another Guild (GW;Guild Warring), essentially forcing PK mode upon all the individuals within the guild, much like Siege War but within the confines of the Open World. (Safe Zones are implemented for such harassment cases such as your guilds castle and your Residence). And the other reason for not being in a guild is most likely because the Guild's Leader/Officers/Majority want to avoid such involvement and don't want their tag to be associated with botting involvement openingly.
So what can you do to get rid of a botting toon thats not in a guild?
Nothing really. Well that could change with what I'm about to suggest.
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THE SOLUTION
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Activate PK Status
"It is generally only possible to attack other characters when PK status is active"
My Suggestion here is that PK mode should be a pema-active buff for those not in a guild after Level 50. PK Mode would then turn off of course once you enter a guild and turns on when you Leave. So that there's then always the option to deal with a problem such as a bot.
And for those who are thinking in their heads this will cause drama in terms of "ERMERGERD YOU KILLED ME! I HATE YOU FOREVER!" or that the lakes and roads will turn red with blood from the bloodshed, it wont. The fact that PK deaths don't cause debt and the fact that one other toon has to enable their PK mode to kill another is something one would have to think twice and check its surroundings before doing so in fear of them getting killed themselves. There's also very many ways to avoid be PK harassed so being pessimistic about this would be an oversight as to how this will solve our botting problem. Plus honestly, how many people do you know roll straight up guildless 365 days a year. Maybe rolling guildless with these stipulations might seem pretty fun to some. Its a whole new concept and i feel things like this will increase the Longevity of this game cause i for one love RoM and i shame those who keep saying "Runes of Magic is totally done for, its outlived its life" cause in my opinion there's tons of room for this game to grow even further.
I for one am a very Guild-oriented person and i can't remember the last time that i "merc'd" but i can also see this as a tiny tiny deterrent from someone mercing themselves so that alone better improves Siege Wars experience. Even on a little scale its something.
And I'm sure from a business perspective GF can see that this idea might drive someone to buy a couple Equipment Locks
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Thank you for reading, i spent a good part of my morning writing this and i hope to see some really great feedback. Have a nice day and good hunting.
Quoted from "KurisuTenshi;600113"
I actually see where you're going with this, but there are those in guilds who still bot
greatly appreciated 
