Beating the Harvest Bot.

[Ergonyx]

Now, before you freak out and nail me to a cross, hear me out.

I've found that, while we may be able to click through mobs, we cannot click through other players. Generally, what happens, is when a player gets in between the mouse pointer and the node, the bot acts as if the node has been exhausted and runs to the next point. Not a big deal to me, but it's a way of detecting the bot that may or may not have crossed the minds of the people working on the project.

Now. I'm more of a legit player, but there's some days where I just don't want to work for myself, just like the rest of you. But when I'm actually farming, I can generally tell who's using this bot to farm lol. I simply walk in the way and they run off leaving the node to myself ^_~

While I do like this when I'm actually farming for myself rather than having the bot farm for me, I understand that the people working on projects such as this are usually looking for something to overcome and work out (At least I do since I love debugging code. I know, I'm a messed up individual. I also find farming in MMOs to be the funnest part.)

Obviously, there's a few ways to correct this such as making it rescan before actually running away from the node or finding a way to click through other players, but how it's corrected is up to the project managers.

I just felt that I'd inform the public of this, not to cause hate, but to make a better bot even though I rarely use it. I play my game my way, you play your game your way. No reason we can't all get along ^_^

[aasi888]

..... or finding a way to click through other players,.....

shift + click works on NPCs. Haven't tried on nodes.

[Administrator]

Yeah, somebody go ahead and see if shift+click works on nodes when other players are in the way. If so, this is a very simple fix.

[d003232]

Yeah, somebody go ahead and see if shift+click works on nodes when other players are in the way. If so, this is a very simple fix.

Yes it works that way. I just checked it.

[3cmSailorfuku]

Excuse me, but I have never had this problem. There could be 4 people standing infront of the node and the Bot would detect the node fine. :/
Hell, I can even click resources through walls and trees. Perhaps you should enable in the options "Click through players".

[d003232]

Perhaps you should enable in the options "Click through players".

??? I don't find a option like that?

[3cmSailorfuku]

Perhaps you should enable in the options "Click through players".

??? I don't find a option like that?

Weird, I have it in my interface options, It's the 6th Checkbox in the Control tab.

[Administrator]

I also don't have that version. Maybe it's because of an addon or something?

I have already uploaded a shift-click fix to SVN, but I'm not really sure how well it will work (if at all). Let me know.