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Jaybee
Silver Knight of the Realm
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I knew someone would say this.
When was the last time you logged in? No way anyone who posts here has accurate information on TESO subs but anecdotal observation indicates that there are a lot more people playing TESO now compared to a couple of months ago (availability on Steam and returning players who jumped on the Wildstar bandwagon are most likely cause of population increase).
Using Tuco's metric, there are almost two fully locked Cyrodil campaigns during primetime and most of the others have multiple population bars. The crafting stations and banks (which AFAIK are not instanced) are significantly more populated as well.
This isn't the TESO thread though. I just pointed ou how a MMO can successfully combat botters and gold sellers. If you choose to believe that the lack of players in TESO is the real reason for the complete disappearance of the botters/gold sellers, then feel free to believe whatever you want to believe.
Tuco
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That's not my metric. After the first content patch the Cyrodiil populations were dead everynight. Then a few days later mysteriously a bunch of them went full. It's possible this is because the community finished the new content and went back to Cyrodiil but my guess is they adjusted the population ranking to be on a curve in an effort to always show good population numbers during primetime. My metric would be going to a populated campaign at primetime and if there aren't huge 40 vs 40 fights going on then the population doesn't support Cyrodiil anymore.
However, I agree with your point. If a company makes an effort and puts fighting bots/gold spam in their budget they will be able to stifle gold farmers. For a gold farmer the profit is equal to the revenue of farming - the cost of it. This means that a company banning more bots and banning merchant/marketing accounts (and banning the accoutns they're connected to) increases the cost dramatically. However the month a new games come out the potential revenue of selling gold from farming, bots and hacked accounts is huge. Plus the team is scrambling to make the game playable rather than fight bots. So the first month will always be shitty especially for a gold-based game like AA (compared to ESO where gold doesn't give you much).
However, I agree with your point. If a company makes an effort and puts fighting bots/gold spam in their budget they will be able to stifle gold farmers. For a gold farmer the profit is equal to the revenue of farming - the cost of it. This means that a company banning more bots and banning merchant/marketing accounts (and banning the accoutns they're connected to) increases the cost dramatically. However the month a new games come out the potential revenue of selling gold from farming, bots and hacked accounts is huge. Plus the team is scrambling to make the game playable rather than fight bots. So the first month will always be shitty especially for a gold-based game like AA (compared to ESO where gold doesn't give you much).
Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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For the beta I'm on whatever server has the "O" name. I think I'm going to just freelance. Fishing and composing could be enough to hold my interest for some time.
Jaybee
Silver Knight of the Realm
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That's all you had to say.
Pretty sure most are on alpha server and are just waiting for the release at this point. I think a few may have tried the new beta servers just to experiment with land rush tactics.
I have 2 extra keys for tomorrow's closed beta, if anyone wants one PM me.
Bondurant
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Raes
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Patrons still accumulate labor while offline, so it probably calculates when you log in. Tax time should be unnaffected, just like last CB.
Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Raes
Vyemm Raider
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So I did a little research on fishing- do you really need the large farm to get the grubs in order to fish? There is a lot to do in this game, but their seems to be a lot of steps to doing even the most basic things.
There's about 50 vultures there constantly refreshing and sniping up any key that gets posted within seconds
Still no key here, so if anyone has a spare, many +nets and +bro's will be given in exchange.
Tredge
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moontayle
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Got to level 10 last night during a brief moment where I didn't have shit occupying my time. While quest hub-ish at least at the initial part they keep you moving. I think it's cute that they've injected "story" into the process but I've escaped out of every single cutscene because I really DGAF.