As i sit here, mindlessly harvesting my water, i cant help but notice my chat going crazy with gold bots. This isnt anything new, but seems to have gained some momentum. Now i may be wrong, as it is extremely hard to keep track of changes made to NW (wether stealth or transparent in nature). That being said i read somewhere that a big fight against the plague of gold bots spreading through aeternum , was
limiting use of global chats ,beyond a threshold (believe this was lvl 10) also upon accepting a faction role.
which all sound great , in an attempt in discouraging gold bot spams, which in my opinion are the biggest pitfall in immersion factor (give us mounts already)
Although these changes on the surface sound good, whether they made the release or just arent implemented correctly, they dont seem to be helping with gold bot spam, ie (still seeing below lvl 10 factionless botts, spamming our less than perfect chat =]. To make matters worse there seems to be some adverse effects from this change , effects that also bring down the immersion if not overall experience with the game. Tell me , has this happened to you? Ever completed an outpost rush, and upon entering (open world) your ability to find another opr group ,and or talk trash to that pesky musket on the mountain, either way your ability to use global and any other chat is gone untill relog. Perhaps you just finished that laz run and want to sell your loot in global , nope.
My suspicion is that this has something to do with the implementation of said bot protection, its almost as if leaving any form of “instance” puts us in this new char status, where we are silenced untill we can reset (relog).
Wether or not this is a failed implementation of a resolution to gold bots, or just a bug, its a nuisance , not to the gold bots who still manage to roam free in this beautiful world of aeternum, but to the active playerbase , that is already suffering from a poor launch and state of the game…