Suggestion: More skill gem sinks - Gemcutter's shard?

Instead of seeing how bot-farming could be an issue, why not figure out how to not allow bots in the first place? :P

Anyways, level 1 gems for scroll of wisdom shards, or even a scroll of wisdom itself seems kind of too low to me.
When I see a Level 1 gem in the ground, and 5 pieces of useless white equipment, my first impression is saying "The gem is worth more than all of those".

If the whole issue about players creating 1000 new characters to get the 2 lvl 1 gems is a problem...then why not just try to make that not a problem in the first place instead of gimping gameplay so it's not an issue?
Maybe make quest gems not being able to be inter-changed between characters. That alone can solve the problem I think.



The whole "Make only current level 10 gems available to the recipe, because a very high level dude can level a gem to lvl 5 easily" is indeed a "fix" to that problem, but it's basically useless for anybody that's NOT actively trying to exploit it.

I see many suggestions and "fixes" for suggestions that basically go like this:
A: Okay, I suggest we do X so regular players can enjoy a new gameplay feature
B: But then a level 99 hardcore player, or a guy with 10000 bots running simultaneously, or a guy with 24/7 free time and 100000 accounts, can exploit X in some ways. Change it to X+10, so if those people try to exploit it, they won't get much out from it!
A: Okay, then I'll change X to X+10

The problem is that maybe regular players can indeed enjoy the X feature, but maybe they don't enjoy the X+10 one.

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gonzaw wrote:

Instead of seeing how bot-farming could be an issue, why not figure out how to not allow bots in the first place? :P

that isnt super naive at all

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Veta1991 wrote:

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gonzaw wrote:

Instead of seeing how bot-farming could be an issue, why not figure out how to not allow bots in the first place? :P

that isnt super naive at all

If banks had that same mentality then everybody would get their money stolen ;)

But seriously, I don't see the problem. Enforce a system that doesn't allow bots, and if it does it regulates it pretty well and buffers the impact any un-detected bot has in the system, and then this whole issue about bots farming skill gems or something is non-existent.

Are there even bots in PoE? I heard some guy say it uses encryption so you can't know the protocol to code a bot.

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almond wrote:

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Manator wrote:

I would call that poor man's way. Average player can get few times more in that time while doing maps.

Bots, bro. Bots.

Bots in PoE?