address the bots issue

The amount of botting going on in poe is getting ridiculous.

Have a periodic random check when using stash. Flag accounts that repeatedly fail that bot check.

Have chat people can join based on challenges so we don't have to constantly see RMT bot spam.

So... let's say you detect a bot. Then what? Ban it? They just create a new account. The whole shebang is automated. So banning just becomes part of the program.

They're not able to solve this. They've given us SSF for people who can't abide by playing with cheaters.

the game would die without bots...especially the trade

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Tyrion2 wrote:

the game would die without bots...especially the trade

right? this is the only reasons they allow botting. basically... more or less.

Don't you love it when the person you whisper immediately invites you, puts all items/orbs extremely fast and even wishes you good luck after the trade? Much better than regular players honestly

Imagine playing trade in 2021. Thats like riding with training wheels at 14 down the block. Play SSF. No bots. No interrupting play. No scammers. NO BS. No problem.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Imagine playing trade in 2021. Thats like riding with training wheels at 14 down the block. Play SSF. No bots. No interrupting play. No scammers. NO BS. No problem.

Yes, imagine playing trade in an ARPG that revolves around loot.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Imagine playing trade in 2021. Thats like riding with training wheels at 14 down the block. Play SSF. No bots. No interrupting play. No scammers. NO BS. No problem.

Imagine playing SSF in a game whose entire loot distribution depends on having an economy, and making due with mediocre gear you pick up compared to what you can buy in a trade league. :P

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Pizzarugi wrote:

Imagine playing SSF in a game whose entire loot distribution depends on having an economy, and making due with mediocre gear you pick up compared to what you can buy in a trade league. :P

Well, ironically, in SSF i actually do play the game itself, while my last trade experience was just sitting in hideout and flipping shit (let's skip setting up a bunch of crutches to not miss the whispers while being afk), then "making" some another build by straight buying all the crap and getting bored of it in a day, rinse and repeat.
Being somewhat casual and purposedly slow, i usually still can make a couple decent ssf characters over a timespan of a couple months or less, and for some builds that require a bunch of specific items, or meme builds and such, theres always standard (and the actual reason to play it, hehe)

As for "what you can buy in trade league", the difference between the gear of that 1% nolife minority who spend enough time either to acquire enough virtual painted stones to buy/craft it (trade league) or to farm things needed to craft it (ssf) isn't that much to be honest, maybe another 5-10% of players are actually making use of that intentionally crippled "eek-conomy", the rest... well, the rest basically have teh Allmighty Holy Trade Manifesto™ slammed down their throats and occasinally some of them will come on these forums and write frustrates walls of text nobody of actual devs will ever read, something like that.

Anyway, its all about choices, lol

I've been telling these guys SSF is faster because you don't have to fuck with trade.

At the indiviudal level I mean. So like say it took me two months with trade to beat everything I can do it in 1.6 without.

Just look at who gets to 100 first every league aint traders.