Bots in cutthroat league?

I'll make a comparison to EvE:Online (which is a fairly cutthroat game, PoE aint got shit on EvE when it comes to cutthroat).

That game is crawling with bots, and they tend to avoid the hardcore areas where they might get popped. However, you do occasionally see bots out in 0.0 and they're not very smart, they just go from gate to gate (usually with hauls of torpedos, for some reason) and just let themselves get popped.
I imagine the PoE bots will be the same, they'll just farm areas with low risk of getting killed, or use tactics that make it impossible to get killed (like the full instance trick someone mentioned). If you do manage to get the jump on them though, they'll just let themselves be killed then resume their normal routine afterwards.

I always found it fun to kill the baal bots in D2.

Ive never encountered a truly threatening AI in any video game that didnt just straight up cheat (Heres lookin at you original starcraft)

I look forward to munching people in cutt throat. A simple way to keep people from filling up an instance with bots to protect themselves is to not allow people to choose which instance they land in.

more meat to grind.

NOM NOM NOM

There was a provocative thread recently, that got immediately deleted. Copy-pasted from reddit. Where an imaginary, or real pro-botter explained tactics of how he'll secure bots in areas and his intentions to handle legit players, in cutthroat.
We'll see.

botthroat league

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Saltychipmunk wrote:

Well , joke perhaps is not the best word, but cutt throat is not the kind of league that is very sustainable in the long term. the powerful will crush the weak.

If you have played any survival game with a multiplayer component . You would know that the community of said servers changes rappidly. Some have gone from full to empty to full with an entirely different set of people in less than a day .


cutthroat is essentially one server and while it will have its core , it will be a core of the most dedicated people.

all the casuals , all the normal players would be weeded out aggressively

wouldn't it be possible to only allow players with roughly the same lvl (+/- 5 lvls) to enter each others instances? So that a lvl 40 players simply can't enter an instance which a lvl 30 player created?

+/- 3 levels.


You cannot defeat a level 8 with level 3 unless you got insane gear and he got crap gear.

Level 8 weapons will be your grave.


Look at some CT between season races. I posted screens what happens if 2 players with the same power fight against each other--->Both die at the same time.

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wouldn't it be possible to only allow players with roughly the same lvl (+/- 5 lvls) to enter each others instances? So that a lvl 40 players simply can't enter an instance which a lvl 30 player created?

This would help but consider following.
Level 20 gems need level 69.
If somebody is the only level 8x with good items around he creates a second character with maxed gems just to kill players he can't invade.

Just make it so if you die you drop your currency(not gear) and your killer gets 5% of your current level's xp from you. That way you aren't really held back by being killed and they still get rewarded for killing you. Also, make it so you can only kill people within 2 or 3 levels of you.