by Malison » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:28 am
This does seem kind of suspicious to me.
[quote:5y03nxa4]"RULE 4" "RULE FOUR" ROBOT BOTTING
4) No Robotting.
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Robotting is the act of setting up your MUD client to run the character on
its own. Playing a 'robot' character is forbidden, and will be punished.
You MAY create actions/triggers that perform otherwise repetitive actions
during and between fights. E.g. circling, eating and drinking.
If you need to AFK to get a drink or answer the phone, that is one thing,
being AFK in a group for 10-15 minutes while still “magically entering
portals and blinding Mobsâ€, WILL NOT be tolerated. If your leader believes
you are botting, good chances you are!!![/quote:5y03nxa4]
If all you were gone was a couple minutes on the same mob, then it shouldn't have been "botting." The rules help says you can even write scripts to continue circling or whatever in a fight, and can go AFK to do little tasks, so I can't see why spamming kick and doing something else for a moment would be any different.
[quote:5y03nxa4]Botting is getting exp or gold or eq while not at the keyboard. Life
happens and there is a pretty clear distinction between running a bot
and checking in on your character versus using scripts to assist with
some of the more mundane tasks of the mud.[/quote:5y03nxa4]
This definitely seems like a much different definition of botting than the one players have the ability to see. And even under it, it's not like he was just checking up on his char, he was checking up on life, no scripts attached (as far as I know).
On the other hand, group botting is definitely something to be addressed as Mosaix said.