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Well considering that there should still be a weekly patch tomorrow night, and then the Strain Ultradrop is next week with 1000+ fixes, yeah, this is pretty much what I expected a hotfix to look like. The Stalker fix is a big one though, it was starting to break Walatiki Temple with how strong it was.


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Yay!


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This...especially the harvesting bots which appear to teleport/move underground and show up inside the node itself. If carbine doesn't implement a feature like this, someone needs to create an addon to expedite the ticket process as the bots appear/disappear too quickly for people to be using /ticket every time.


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What did you think a quick fix is? A patch would be something bigger. Which we all hope is coming soon. Though i'm thinking it maybe with the new strain stuff.


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Well, the good news is they're banning them daily so we should see less and less of those anoying flying things that chops your tree a second before you collect it! But yeah, I agree that this was minimum.


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No it's down for 90 minutes for maintenance. They are just taking the opportunity in the middle of maintenance to also apply a hotfix. Two birds one stone; the servers were already going down for 90 minutes anyway, no reason to interrupt gameplay for another 15 minute hotfix application.


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This is pretty cool, a pvp one would be nice though.

I'm sure they're getting at more than what's reported here - it's possible they've been slowly fixing these issues over time.


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Yes, you are. But I don't say that to be mean. You see, the VAST majority of botter accounts are hacked accounts or accounts purchased with stolen/fraudulent credit cards. So the accounts cost them nothing. And they always have a steady supply. And honestly, they don't really have to do anything. People willing give them their accounts and credit card info all the time (when they buy gold). And if you don't think people buy gold very much, realize that if people didn't buy gold very much, the goldsellers wouldn't be able to make a profit, and therefore, there wouldn't be any goldsellers. Since there are TONS of bots and TONS of goldsellers, it can be inferred that it's REALLY good business, which means a LOT of people buy from them.


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This post may pique your interest.


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So botters basically are all rich then? Nah, I do not believe that. Banning them is a good solution. An easy way to report them would be nice. I waste soo much time in BGs reporting all the bots and AFKers. But then reporting is only useful, if someone actually takes the reports serious... and at the moment I do not see that being the case.


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I mean I don't know what to say. Oh yeah. They apparently fixed the stalker issue before and it made it worse. Also just about every fix/patch where they fix some other things get broken, (which I know is a common thing), but even with that being said you're trying to convince people that have a huge content patch with lots of fixes is gonna solve this. Lolz. So far it's been acknowledged with the aforementioned that when things get fixed new stuff break and on top of that the new content WILL have bugs. So, we should stop complaining about having them fix things first before releasing new content so they can do it all at the same time and not double the bugs? Good luck with that *cupcake*!! Edit: "You're talking to me all wrong, your tone..... it's all wrong, do it again and I'll stab you in the face with a sauntering iron." Name calling only makes you guys look like the whiners/b*$ers. Stop complaining about people complaining about getting stuff fixed. Especially when a lot of this stuff they said weeks ago they had a fix in place and were testing it. Only to find it out it got pushed to the PTR so we could "test" it.


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You can also just quit the game and go back to whatever you were doing before. I played WoW from vanilla on and the amount of bugs and errors in that were also quite big and there were a lot. A game ain't fully tested until you put it out to the masses. And calling developers lame, clearly states that you have no clue what you are talking about in the amount of work that it required to create a game this size.


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Do you mean "grateful"? No reason not to expect more fixes. We're not operating with punchcards and tape anymore. Let's not forget, that these sorts of issues shouldn't make it into a live release in the first place - any decent level of QA and testing should have trapped these sorts of issues before release. So it's not unreasonable that people should expect more significant improvement of broken functionality, more quickly. And please, don't start dredging up examples like "well you should have seen the WoW release x.yz, that was super broken". Firstly, that's years ago. Secondly, just because other MMO releases have set the bar low, doesn't justify or excuse the bugfest that is WS.


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Yes. Until it arent  500 bugs until it is complete destroyed. No thanks :). Thanks for the  fixes of the most anoying stuff so fast. I hope the infight invisible  exploit   at this vip skill  will be  fixed to.


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its sad that the community is doing more about bots than the actual devs.


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Mmm, the main site is advertising when we will be doing a website update with more information on the Housing/Customisation stuff for the the Strain Update. Not when the content will be available in-game. None of the new (strain) content is coming before the main Patch 1 drop. So the Housing Plugs, Blighthaven, Northern Wastes etc will all drop at the same time. Sorry if that's a bit confusing.


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In the interim, there is this: http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/221726-oneclickbotreport Edit: Whoops. Someone already posted this. Hurray for redundancy. Spread the word!


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Meanwhile after /ticket was used the guy continues to teleport around the zone hitting every node and tree preventing anyone else from collecting rescources for the next two days.


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There's other internal solutions for those kind of bots, sadly I can't really talk about them as it could tip cheaters off. ;) Reviewing player submitted videos as evidence would be a very... difficult method to catch these guys in my opinion. 1) A lot of people would misuse it. Inappropriate videos, pleas for Support help/ban appeals, trying to clog up our reports etc. 2) It's only really viable for those who recording for long periods of time, by the time you start a capture the botter will be gone. That said, if people do video capture they can go back, grab the bot name and report it to us anyway. Much easier for everything on our end. I'll mention it to Support and see if it's something that would help them, but I expect not.


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Oh, oops. That still says nothing about the same hackers ruining PvP, even though they were reported weeks ago. Try harder.


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I'm sorry, but I have to call BS on this your second point. Bots are a program that follows a pattern. Patterns can be easily recognized and exploited. Case in point, I was farming in Grimvault when I noticed 7 bots and noticed how they were moving. Since nodes spawn in the same place, and I noticed a mining node had popped up, I turned on FRAPS and I stood there for two minutes. In two minutes I had recorded 7-8 bots complete with their name. Since it was a triangular point between three nodes, I was able to show them teleporting between all three nodes. And again, it was a 2 minute video. 120 seconds. I realize not everyone will do this, but to universally write off player submitted videos... I did this because I do care about the game and I was willing to spend a few extra minutes to try to help out to make it better any way I could. Yes, it was annoying to have to do it, and yes it shouldn't be my job, and yes, Carbine should be doing this with GMs, but I'm tired of these bots and took it upon myself to provide evidence. However, I do understand your fear of it being misused. That's obviously not something I can help with.


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They put out updates and fixes all the time, personally I love that they fix even small issues and get it out there as soon as they can, instead of waiting to send out large patches. If you read any of the dev tracker stuff, you will see they are working on large issues, which take time, impatient gamers of the Earth. By the way, you can report bots, I do it all the time. Go to "Submit Help Ticket" and report player. This issues was also addressed in the dev tracker forum section in multiple places.


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There's a huge number of fixes and additions coming in the next week. As for BOTs, they have stated many, many, MANY times that they will be dropping the ban hammer on as many BOTing accounts at one time as possible. It's stupid for them to dedicate weeks to sifting through all the bOT reports  all the time, when they can do it once a month and wipe out a few thousand at a time. The SS AMP drops are confirmed for the Strain drop, as are many crafting fixes.. this is a hot fix, not an update, not even a patch or maintenance downtime.


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A bit late to the party, but ... yes, that post is of interest. It is also vague / incomplete, though. Earlier today I created a new thread to request clarification, since that thread is locked: https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/85871-client-memory-leak-top-known-issues-open-thread/ As an aside, do you happen to know when the free month expires for pre-order accounts? I would like to see if the Strain content drop fixes resolve my crashing issues, but I am thinking the patch will drop after my free gametime expires. While I appreciate the monumental task in front of you all with respect to fixing the various bugs in the game, general resposiveness to the memory-related stability issues has been spotty and I don't see a reason to be optimistic the mentioned fixes will actually resolve the issues I am experiecing. In other words, if my free gametime expires before the Strain content drop, justification for subbing is fairly thin (without more information, basically the simple hope that the fix in question resolves all the issues I am experiecing). Has there been any internal discussion of extending the free gametime for players that have been fighting with the stability issues? I'm not even sure how you would differentiate between those that have and have not been dealing with the issues, but it doesn't seem like an unreasonable request on behalf of those that have been.


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