Compaints About using Bots to Rank High

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zodiac

Mar 26 2004, 08:49 AM

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I recently was browsing through forum at Serverspy and spotted a whiner on the subject of people abusing bots in order to bring up their Georank.

The link to this interesting conversation can be located here:

http://www.serverspy.net/site/forum/topic....d=129&replies=6

Hope this works. For the details check out the link, here is my comment reply:

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Just wanted to make a comment. I hear alot of slamming on BOTS in particular it seems as though they have gotten very unpopular with "live" players. I think BOTS are fine to have on a server as long as they are not abused,sure having a server consisting of a majority of BOTS is probably not the best and might make it unfair to other servers that are "BOTless". I know of alot of legitimate servers that are known as BOTless servers that use BOTS as a buffer until "live" players show up, especially servers that are just starting out. If there is nobody on the server then nobody wants to play it is simple as that, how fun can playing with yourself be? I have found that the join a server rate is practically 0 with a new server unless there is at least 4 players on it. You cannot expect a Game server to be a hit overnight therefore you have to get players in there somehow. The truth is unless you have a known reputation on the circuit it is impossible to get people to play on your server unless there are pre existing players on it. BOTS defintely are useful for this purpose and yet does not steal ranking positions.

Whatever happen to the days when you can enjoy beating the computer?

If the link does not work the path is:
Webmasters and Server Admins>Server Rankings>Why are bot servers ranked the highest?

Would like to address the forum and get your feelings on this conversation, should be interesting. Hope you guys don't mind me addressing another forum but the subject matter applies to all of us on this forum using bots.