interesting article on farming (MMORPG Farming)

[Apotheosis]

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815

gonna have to go to the link, but it is a pretty interesting article that touches on the topic of selling stuff for $$, etc..

I have a sneaking suspicion it was already posted on this board, but I want to think not.

[Edited on 7-12-2005 by Yswithe]

[Drew]

The wall street journal had an article on farming last week, pretty interesting.

[theotherjohn]

if we could ever learn to trust each other, considering how addicted the PC players are we could make some cash

[Volstock]

Remember that guy that actually paid 22,000 dollar IRL money for a piece of Internet land in a game? This is the reason why. My friend who have been playing WoW have actually made about 7,000 dollar out of the game already. It's because of him that I left actually. His method are the same. except it's not a big company. He had 4 comps on and 3 of them doing macros run in WoW

[Atlanteax]

Seems to me that WoW and EQ and such should disable player macros and scripts...

... at least to the extent that it'd effectively disable the possibility of "Bots".

[Apotheosis]

I wonder how many people mod the client software or just write their own software so that the mouse is controlled, etc.. making it pointless whether or not the client has macros enabled.

[Doyle Hargraves]

Originally posted by Atlanteax
Seems to me that WoW and EQ and such should disable player macros and scripts...

... at least to the extent that it'd effectively disable the possibility of "Bots".

You can't disable 3rd party addons. Someone always finds a way to get them to run no matter how much the game doesn't want you to. The possibility of bots will probably never go away.

It's not like GS where the door is left wide open for it, where you click the WRITE SCRIPT button in the game's UI and then cilck RUN SCRIPT when you're done coding your farming bot.

I don't know about EQ, but WoW's macros have somewhere around a 150 character limit.

I'm surprised nobody in GS ever hired some Chinese people to watch a farming script run 24/7 so the GM couldn't ban them for afk scripting. The market's still there for it, and the tools are built right into the game's UI.

[Edited on 7-12-2005 by Doyle Hargraves]

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Yswithe
I wonder how many people mod the client software or just write their own software so that the mouse is controlled, etc.. making it pointless whether or not the client has macros enabled.

People mod anything - it's hard for a company to prohibit people's desire to meddle.

I made a program to cheat at PopCap's "Atomic Poker" a few years ago.

The game is a 5x5 grid (25 slots) and you try to make the best 5-card hand in horizontally and vertically. I made the program take any card dealt to me, and if it was any part of a royal flush, put it in the correct slot horizontally. Vertically it would try to make 4-of-a-kind's. The bottom row I had it look for 3-8 of clubs (5 rows, only 4 suits so I just threw something in there).

Leave it going overnight, and check it in the morning to see the new cash flow. Mainly just did it out of boredom.

Screenshot (100k image file) (http://members.cox.net/legendwezas/atomicpoker.jpg)

Game is on the left, cheat program is on the right. Had to put a couple speed options in there because of internet speed changes.

Ignore the chat in the screenshot. The game is notorious for Jr. High chit-chat.

[Anebriated]

It was easy enough to script in GS without having someone watch 24/7. I took a character to level 30 in 2 months before the level changes. Only had 1 warning on my account which was from my early scripting days before I could write half decent scripts.

[Apotheosis]

how do you identify chinese farms?

[Wezas]

They're the ones talking and yelling in chinese to each other and never seem to move anywhere.

[SnatchWrangler]

Originally posted by Wezas
They're the ones talking and yelling in chinese to each other and never seem to move anywhere.

They're also the ones selling epics and level 55 blues in the AH, yet they're wearing all green items and a couple blues from mid level instances like Scarlet Monastary.

[Androidpk]

1. Staying in the same spot for hours on end, day after day.

2. Wearing greet items while selling blues and epics in the AH.

3. NO pvp skill AT ALL.

4. Talking in Chinese.

[Jadewolff]

You can also tell them on Argent Dawn by their guild. I believe the two most common chinese farmer guilds are Redridge Riders and Jingshen or something...

They are extremely annoying. They duel spam people as well as train mobs into miners most especially. What's really funny is when they stick around the area of escort quests, and then attack a target knowing the NPC you're escorting will be helping them soon enough and you have to help in order to complete the quest. Then they happily search everything and do the same shit again.

And don't forget the level one gnome that's selling the brightwood staff and arcane crystals right and left in IF....

[Sean of the Thread]

The chinese farmers make a good living doing that shit. Compared to scrounging for scrap metal as their other option.

[Artha]

The chinese farmers make a good living doing that shit. Compared to scrounging for scrap metal as their other option.

They make like $0.56/hour.

[Doyle Hargraves]

Which is probably the same as making $10 an hour in America.

[Wezas]

Merged a thread I made into this thread because I kind of steered it off-topic.