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I've never used a bot, never seen one in action. Let me tell a story and then you guys let me know how feasible my suspicion is.

I hit 35 on SAM last night so I'm camping Mee Deggi. I'm there for 3 hours killing PH's when I do a little reading to see that he's not actually a PH NM. So after 3 hours I decide to killl all Yags in the spawn area, lo and behold he pops 5 minutes later. I'm checking widescan every minute, so I pull him up and run to him. A THF/NIN (No Widescan) comes flying out of nowhere and claims. I have not seen this thf in the spawn area the entire 3 hours, even though he's been in zone. Yes it could be incredibly good luck for the guy, even though O-Kotes didn't drop, but is it feasible that he has some kind of program up and running that lets him know when an NM will pop?

tl;dr Are there apps that let you see when an NM pops? I'm not interested in using one, just not happy getting out-claimed.
 
People want to discuss hacks, go ahead. Knowing what the hacks do helps identify when people use them. What you do with that information is completely up to you.


What we don't allow is posting the links to hackful things.
 
Hes refering to me, my friend asked me to help with the kote so i went and got there first...

I saw cletus killing things, so i did 1 lap around the pond and mee deggi was just standing there...

I dont bot, nor have I ever... but if i did, i wouldnt risk my 5 75 jobs, my 8 others over 36, my half a relic, and my friends, getting banned for botting me deggi lol

I think if anything i would be in an endgame shell botting much bigger fish lol

P.S. Mee Deggi is a PH spawn but not the typical kind, your info is wrong.
 
Update: Actually I just spoke with the guy who is a respected member of the community. It was just good luck for him and bad for me. Not the first time this situation has happened for me and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Edit: It would seem I was beaten to the punch again! Damn you Motley ;)
 
also... on the next spawn, me a 75 pup, and cletus got outclaimed by a 14 yr old girl on PS2.

I bet shes botting also.
 
Guys I am at work and my daughter was camping the NM for me for my Lvl 75 MNK. She is 14, on the PS2 and in the room with me. There is no botting and it is way cool she went 1/1.

Motley went there to show her where the NM spawned any by luck got the first one.

PS - she stunned it to claim - thank god Bigdadddy had me make some macros.

Motley thanks for showing her where the NM spawned and spending a few hours camping it with her.
 
0/100 is rough. I thought 0/12 on Leaping Lizzy was bad. Tomorrow tell your daughter to go to the Temple of Uggelepih, we can duo Sozu Sarberry and split the 2 mil on the knife when she goes 1/1 on it too ;) He's pretty easy to pop and claim during the day.
 
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Well to answer your main question that a lot of people probably ask themselves often too is that most basic bot programs that are used now (not sure about the more advanced ones if there is) are just packet sniffers and how you have that little S and R up in the corner that's the data between your computer and the SE servers.

What most bots such as ffxiapp, mrhacks, mrargus, w/e does is reads the information that is being sent and then activates some preset condition such as spam macro alt+1 or teleport to mob which is dumb to turn on, for claiming or i've also seen them able to read a move i.e. Gates of Hades and auto-stun it if timer is up. Also, the packets for monsters are each under a specific ID, so a place holder is always the same and NM's will be the same too. If you don't want to claim/tele w/e you can just have an alarm ding go off to inform you it's popped and alt+tab or come back to your computer.

That's just a general working of basic bots. I'm not sure NASA or BANANAS w/e code words for shells these days work the same but i'm sure they have the same foundation.
 
I am so confused right now... is there any sarcasm in this thread?
 
There's no sarcasm. I sincerely mean it when I say congrats on drop. That's 1 less counter camper and 1 more person with good gear.

I told Motley in game about the thread before his response in this thread just so there wouldn't be any hard feelings. He told me his side and I told him I didn't think he botted, it was just luck of the draw. I didn't want to name names, because that's not an accusation you throw out without hard facts, and it turns out it was just a coincidence. So there's no hard feelings on my side and I feel like there shouldn't be any on his end.
 
there isnt any hard feelings, but the insinuation alone pushed me to respond.

If i ever get the drop ill tell you what I know about this NM lol
 
motley said:
there isnt any hard feelings, but the insinuation alone pushed me to respond.

If i ever get the drop ill tell you what I know about this NM lol
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How bout you wait 'til i get the drop.
 
How about you pm it to me since I'm on a different server anyway...? >.>;
 
Well... if you are there trying to widescan mee deggi you are not going to get many claims in the first place because widescan takes time to refresh and the spawn area on it is reasonably small compared to some other mobs that require widescanning like VE or LL.

When i camped it i went thf/war and would just run around the tower until i saw it pop ... using this method i was able to claim ~80% of the time. ended up going 1-23
 
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