address the bots issue

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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.

Comparing two extremes (never trading vs trading all the time and doing nothing else) is not very smart.

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waiora wrote:

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.

No, leave the bots alone. At least they respond to trade requests.

Bots are great. We should make a bot support initiative or something because I really need more traders to be bots.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

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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.

Comparing two extremes (never trading vs trading all the time and doing nothing else) is not very smart.

Whatever you want to think of it, my dude, whatever you want to think. I mentioned other player categories too, but why read it, right.
Umm, and its my personal opinion anyway, on a computer game which are supposed to be a sort of entertorment, oh, i meant entertainment.

Meanwhile, to get these "good" trade league items mentioned before, good luck dropping these couple mirrors needed to buy them yourself by playing the game, hehe. It's either a lot of trading/flipping aka hideout warrior or running your personal 6-man party of farming slaves on juiced maps 24/7, i guess both ways will have approximately the same yield of pixel egg-salted orbs per hour. Of course there other unenthical non-vegan methods too, but i won't speak of it because Teh Holy Manifesto forbids them.

There you go again. You don't need mirrors to have good gear.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

There you go again. You don't need mirrors to have good gear.

Suddenly, you don't need to trade at all to have good gear, hehe. And i weren't speaking about mirror-tier items, just these more or less fancy double corrupts, enchants and good rolled shit that "cost" some 10-50 pixel egg-salts per slot, initially replying to this

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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

Still, for majority of the player base accumulating even these 50 egg-salts would be qute hard, mmkay.

I play until I accumulate about 10 exalts then go on a trading spree. Check what the trending gear is, what I can improve, what will give me the most DPS, etc. It is actually pretty fun and a nice break from running maps.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

I play until I accumulate about 10 exalts then go on a trading spree. Check what the trending gear is, what I can improve, what will give me the most DPS, etc. It is actually pretty fun and a nice break from running maps.

And, unlike SSF, each purchase makes a noticeable impact on your performance. Spending about 10 exalts to improve my gear means I could shave several seconds off fighting the Elder guardians in Maven's crucible and thus greatly reduce the odds of me dying in the process.

It feels good going from something like this:

To something like this.

And I strongly doubt it's at all possible to do in SSF. Hell, even getting a helmet like the one I'm currently using is difficult to obtain in SSF without a lot of "crafting".

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Pizzarugi wrote:

To something like this.

And I strongly doubt it's at all possible to do in SSF. Hell, even getting a helmet like the one I'm currently using is difficult to obtain in SSF without a lot of "crafting".

Well, personally i won't do that cause i'm old and lazy, but farming/gambling a set of nook's crown or dark dreams is quite possible, as well as random shaper base and a lonely woke orb from sirius. +2/3 to gems would be quite tricky of course, but minion dmg/hypothermia can surely be rolled with alts.
Forging something with all three will probably require a shit ton of fossils, hehe.