Sneak Peek at Expeditions

[LOMS]

sounds like you guys are greeting bottin with open arms

Wat? I'm sure, that feeding "pig-bots" to your main character will be much less effective, then feeding single character in regular way. I also assume, that you know nearly nothing about true gluttony.

[ericbomb]

sounds like you guys are greeting bottin with open arms

Meh, I've been hearing about the "Mechanic that requires botting" for how many years now? Not once have I seen an actual bot. But maybe we should wait until the mechanic is revealed in full before jumping to conclusions. For all we know it could just be the equivalent of their humors in gluttony points. They have 100 blood and you have 300? You get .3 blood. So it could be a very light advantage, or possibly do F&F timer anyway.

[JohnCarver]

sounds like you guys are greeting bottin with open arms

Just how is anything announced going to create any incentive for bots?

[Nimmeth]

It came out a wrong. since i'm not 100% on how it works, and it's rather unfair of me to say that since i have no clue about it.
i was just reading it, and the first thing that came into my mind was how easy it could be to make an alt and with help of botting or not.
then feed it up in biles and "harvest" it at a certain point.

[trungdle]

Wouldn't it be too time and resource consuming to create an edible char? The benefit of eating off your enemy's corpse is there but to make your own, I don't think it's gonna be worth, it just doesn't add up.

[ericbomb]

It came out a wrong. since i'm not 100% on how it works, and it's rather unfair of me to say that since i have no clue about it.
i was just reading it, and the first thing that came into my mind was how easy it could be to make an alt and with help of botting or not.
then feed it up in biles and "harvest" it at a certain point.

I imagine it will be like the "murder for credit" system. Where it takes X amount of resources to create the murderer, and your reward is 1/3 of X. It'll be a nice little bonus for those crazy enough, but I can't imagine they'll make it so that's it's more efficient to make fat toons for eating purposes then just straight up gluttony your self.

[trungdle]

The point is, don't turn all PvPers into man eaters.
Maybe you're only allowed to eat people at madness 8 or higher?
Oh, oh! And an "insanity" skills tree exclusively for the insane guys. Choosing to ascend into that art also stop you from ever going back to normal, first level min madness 1, second level min madness is 2, etc.
Oooh the possibilities.

[JohnCarver]

It came out a wrong. since i'm not 100% on how it works, and it's rather unfair of me to say that since i have no clue about it.
i was just reading it, and the first thing that came into my mind was how easy it could be to make an alt and with help of botting or not.
then feed it up in biles and "harvest" it at a certain point.

In most cases I think this is going to not be the case. There is the chance that at 'extreme' biles it may be more efficient to eat a 100 to all to get 8 points for example. But even then your building a 100 to all character. By the time it gets 'that' far down the road I largely expect the server to be ending anyhow though.

I have yet to catch a single instance of players 'botting' up in biles though. Most of the time its just automation of some loose mundane tasks and in those cases they have limited time to react to my presence or I simply ban their accounts and call it a day. Its really not an issue as far as I can tell.

There are almost NO cases of anybody reporting 'botting activity' as well leading me to believe that the players themselves don't encounter it either.

[Procne]

JC just confirmed Witch must be female character to end Expedition. gg

More on topic:

Any info on what time of the day the Expedition will go live? Considering taking the day off.

I'm leaning towards early PST.

or PDT?

[trungdle]

Time for some advertisement? 3 days till new server.