I've purchased unid off sellers on battle.net, guess what? From the ~10 different vendors a mule was used each time for the transaction. Starts to get pretty obvious.
Damnit. I'm a bot. I store every single legendary (identified or unid'ed) on my level 1 mules. I should report myself now.
What's starting to get obvious? It's rather the opposite... active players use their stash for alternative gear, crafting materials, or leave some space for random pickups and AH purchases. Bots don't need alternative gear or crafting mats. Mules prove nothing.
I'm about 1,000 hours on my wizard, and a combined 300 or so hours on the other classes.
I've found two Mempos and two Witching Hours. One Ice Climbers, one Zunimassa's Marrow, one Inna's Vast Expanse, one Tal Rasha's Allegiance.
I've never, ever found a Zunimassa's Pox, Ouroboros, Immortal King's Irons.
People buy in bulk. Constantly. At one point I bought a couple dozen Echoing Furies and Lacuni Prowlers. I spent several hundred millions worth of gold, but I profited about 200-300M after selling off the well-rolled ones. I could have re-invested the gold and repeated the same thing over and over.
There are players who do this on a full-time basis, just like there are players who camp the AH and RMAH day in and day out, or those who camp d2jsp and trade forums for good deals.
Oftentimes, when you buy unID in bulk, you can get a discount. Sometimes, those who get discounts via buying bulk will resell individual unIDs for market value. This is much like real life auctions that feature "bulk lots." Tons of potential profits can be made by reselling individual items within a lot and there are many people in real life who have side jobs dedicated specifically to buying item lots.
Then you probably have owners of bots pumping out their unID loot over and over. They all come from somewhere, but by no means will the average player accumulate 60 Manticores in their playtime. You buy them, hoard them, then either resell or gamble on the ID.
^ This is what's happening. Bots can reach paragon 100 quite easily, that's why gold price has dropped a lot. And also that's why there are so many unids being sold in pages like D2JSP.
Most people just buy in bulks and they get a discount, then they sell it to make profit.
Is multiboxing legal? If so, if I actually had it, with the amount I play, I'm sure icould swing some unid'd selling... I'm usually on 2 hours a day or so... if I had 4 characters running, it'd be like I was playing 8... maybe that's how legitimate sellers do it?
Is multiboxing legal? If so, if I actually had it, with the amount I play, I'm sure icould swing some unid'd selling... I'm usually on 2 hours a day or so... if I had 4 characters running, it'd be like I was playing 8... maybe that's how legitimate sellers do it?
Don't know, if legal, but the effect would be even greater than you think. If your 4 toons would be in perfect sync, you'd do 4 times the damage of one toon to mobs that don't have nearly 4 times the hp. Plus that new multiplayer bonus.
Picking up stuff could be messy though, unless you only react to the "pliiiing".
Multiboxing is legal, but it's not that easy and straightforward; the increased difficulty of playing 4 players at the same time takes its toll. Not even talking about the technical problems and the fact that it's not that easy to sync everything... and also not that cheap. There were some people on these forums who are multiboxing, but haven't seen them posting recently. But it's not exactly 4 times as much as single player. Although that was before the multiplayer patch, to be honest... I guess 4 archon wizards must be fun.
Meh if youre looking for a true economy game then you might as well avoid blizzard games. No doubt they make the best games, but their games are filled with bots.
It kills me to see why people waste time on this game as theyre being robbed off their time.
A friend of mine bots and makes serious $$ off it. He was just like a true diablo fan. But this game has got to a point where theyre supporting bots over players. Obviously they wont claim this to be true but he tried it out and ended up being more decked and profitable than me with putting in way less time. What does he say about it? Its way more profitable for him to bot and by the time he gets banned hes already made 4-5 times the money he invested on the game. Rinse repeat.
Honestly i dont blame him for using it, if i didnt have a good job i would probably too.
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Damnit. I'm a bot. I store every single legendary (identified or unid'ed) on my level 1 mules. I should report myself now.
What's starting to get obvious? It's rather the opposite... active players use their stash for alternative gear, crafting materials, or leave some space for random pickups and AH purchases. Bots don't need alternative gear or crafting mats. Mules prove nothing.
^ This is what's happening. Bots can reach paragon 100 quite easily, that's why gold price has dropped a lot. And also that's why there are so many unids being sold in pages like D2JSP.
Most people just buy in bulks and they get a discount, then they sell it to make profit.
Don't know, if legal, but the effect would be even greater than you think. If your 4 toons would be in perfect sync, you'd do 4 times the damage of one toon to mobs that don't have nearly 4 times the hp. Plus that new multiplayer bonus.
Picking up stuff could be messy though, unless you only react to the "pliiiing".
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Sol77-2972/hero/66110450
The private ones simply keep running undetected, and a good comp can handle 16 bots with ease.
The main issue is just to restart them in time, once they get 250k elite kills they are pretty easy to spot.
45k isn't squat.
Thats like 3-4 months on 1 bot (from experience), so running 16 bots its about a week.
And no, good botters don't use demonbuddy, they just pay a programmer (student) to write a bot. 1000 € isn't much for a reliable one.
Blizzard does not look into accounts running 24/7.
Warden just does its scans and if you avoid those you are safe until someome calls you out.
It kills me to see why people waste time on this game as theyre being robbed off their time.
A friend of mine bots and makes serious $$ off it. He was just like a true diablo fan. But this game has got to a point where theyre supporting bots over players. Obviously they wont claim this to be true but he tried it out and ended up being more decked and profitable than me with putting in way less time. What does he say about it? Its way more profitable for him to bot and by the time he gets banned hes already made 4-5 times the money he invested on the game. Rinse repeat.
Honestly i dont blame him for using it, if i didnt have a good job i would probably too.