Fear tainted isle = profit

[markdevox]

<div></div><div></div><div><div>Go fear tainted isle and body drops worth 14g to vendors drop off a lot o mobs.  In 20 mins in a full group I got around a plat's worth on lotto.</div><div> </div><div>Maybe thats why theres so many bot teams there.</div></div><div> </div><div>Hopefully highlighting this will have the drop rate nerfed and disrupt botting activity a bit. </div><p>Message Edited by markdevox on <span class="date_text">03-04-2006</span><span class="time_text">06:16 PM</span></p>

[Magu]

Been posted already, several times.<div></div>

[markdevox]

<div></div><p>The more the merrier imo.  If its been posted already several times and nothing's been done then it's worth a reminder from those of us who would like to play a bot free game.</p><p>Thanks for the heads up though.</p>

[PIexor]

<div>The splitpaw server has a full 6 man farm/bot team there farming those mobs 24h a day, after the eye stalks sell back was fixed on gazer island.</div>

[Xibi]

<div></div>I hunted there a few days ago and got about 3-4 plat worth of stones.   Didn't go back though because its not really worth the competition.  Plus there's just as good ways to make money, like find a moonstone.

[Riseth]

Took me over an hour to finish a writ there, not happy.  I notice that bots have started forming guilds now, 'King of World' on SP server for example. I've got a few guild names if they are ever short on ideas <span>:smileymad:</span><span></span><div></div>

[Lintr]

Fear Tainted Isle is SOE's Patented Bot Trapper (TM)<div></div>

[Signal9]

<div>The only way to stop this is NOT to hae the Dev's nerf it.  It is to get enough groups up there to make it unprofitable for the bot groups to farm there.</div><div> </div><div>Take some enjoyment out of killing the bot's revenue stream, not destroying all of the "good" loot in the game.</div>

[Pins]

<blockquote><hr>Signal9 wrote:<div>The only way to stop this is NOT to hae the Dev's nerf it.  It is to get enough groups up there to make it unprofitable for the bot groups to farm there.</div><div> </div><div>Take some enjoyment out of killing the bot's revenue stream, not destroying all of the "good" loot in the game.</div><hr></blockquote>Actually the good loot needs to be removed from the game. It is causing inflation in the game, that should not be occuring. By making it so a few people have a lot of money, you will see prices climb to new highs, this is not a good thing.

[Jonaroth]

<div>I like fear tainted island a lot, i make lots of mula there <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no bot though <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no plat farmer, I'm just a dude who likes bein able to afford mah masters <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  long live fear tainted island!</div>

[Cerivus2]

<p>Boo Hoo Hoo...</p>

[Sassx]

<div></div>Wait til your Masters cost 100 plat because of all the bought plat on your server.  Long live Fear tainted isle then huh?

[Jonaroth]

yea that would be sweet, that way other people couldnt buy em before I got a chance <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />boohoo hoo for fair tainted island haters ;-P<div></div>

[Cerivus2]

<div></div><p>^^ Agree.</p><p> </p><p>Why cry about it when you could have taken part in it? Hooray for the crybaby! SOE makes realtime decisions based on the opinion of the crybaby more than they actually do any testing.</p><p>Congratulations! You alone have changed the the world of EQ2. I will be able to sleep soundly now knowing that you are out there protecting me from the evils of plat farming.</p><p> </p><p>Get outside and get some sun.</p><p> </p>

[Chog]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Jonaroth wrote:<div>I like fear tainted island a lot, i make lots of mula there <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no bot though <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no plat farmer, I'm just a dude who likes bein able to afford mah masters <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  long live fear tainted island!</div><hr></blockquote>Hate to break it to you; but, if you are killing the mobs on the Isle for the sole purpose of gaining sellable items (over priced vender trash).  Then you are a farmer.  Just because you have a reason to farm the place (to buy masters) does not change what you are doing: farming.

[Damari]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Chogar wrote:<div></div><blockquote><hr>Jonaroth wrote:<div>I like fear tainted island a lot, i make lots of mula there <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no bot though <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I aint no plat farmer, I'm just a dude who likes bein able to afford mah masters <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  long live fear tainted island!</div><hr></blockquote>Hate to break it to you; but, if you are killing the mobs on the Isle for the sole purpose of gaining sellable items (over priced vender trash).  Then you are a farmer.  Just because you have a reason to farm the place (to buy masters) does not change what you are doing: farming.<hr></blockquote><p>How he spends his time in game is his own to decide, not yours.  Providing he's not griefing others or selling for real $ then his play style is legit.  This area has been posted upon and if it is an issue, then SOE will change it accordingly.  If they don't change it then its meant to be.</p><p>I, for example, am constantly running low on gold and everyone who has half a clue knows you get better returns when you solo.  So when I need a quick gold fix, I'll head to a reasonable solo'able place and I will kill those npc's for their loot for an hour or two.  By your reasoning that makes me a farmer.  Hate to break it to you but its a legitimate method of advancing your character and well within the rules to do so.</p><p> </p>

[Chog]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Damari wrote:<p>How he spends his time in game is his own to decide, not yours.  Providing he's not griefing others or selling for real $ then his play style is legit.  This area has been posted upon and if it is an issue, then SOE will change it accordingly.  If they don't change it then its meant to be.</p><ol><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I tell him how to play?</font></li><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I say his play style was illegal?</font></li><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I say he should not go their for the drops?</font></li></ol><p></p><hr></blockquote>

[Damari]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Chogar wrote:<div></div><blockquote><hr>Damari wrote:<p>How he spends his time in game is his own to decide, not yours.  Providing he's not griefing others or selling for real $ then his play style is legit.  This area has been posted upon and if it is an issue, then SOE will change it accordingly.  If they don't change it then its meant to be.</p><ol><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I tell him how to play?</font></li><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I say his play style was illegal?</font></li><li><font color="#66ff00">Where did I say he should not go their for the drops?</font></li></ol><p></p><hr></blockquote><hr></blockquote><p>What are farmers?  The term is primarily labelled at players who harvest specific area's in-game for the sole purpose of making real life money.  This term has been used generically over countless years in most online games so to accuse or label some-one as a farmer your suggesting that their doing somethign illegal or not within the games ruleset. </p><p>Perhaps people shold be alittle more careful when they post statements about others being farmers, hmmm.....</p><p> </p>

[Chog]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Damari wrote:<div></div><blockquote> </blockquote><p>What are farmers?  The term is primarily labelled at players who harvest specific area's in-game for the sole purpose of making real life money.  This term has been used generically over countless years in most online games so to accuse or label some-one as a farmer your suggesting that their doing somethign illegal or not within the games ruleset. </p><p><font color="#66ff00">The word has also been used to describe what raid guilds do to an Epic zone after they perfect a winning strategy, they farm the Epic / zone for the loot.  The word is also used to describe people that solo / duo name encounters that are green / blue.  As in your previous example, a solo player low on cash farms mobs for coin.  If the entire reason for killing mob "x" is to gain a specific item or coin then you are a farmer during that activity.</font></p><p>Perhaps people shold be alittle more careful when they post statements about others being farmers, hmmm..... </p><p><font color="#66ff00">And maybe you need to realize that the word farm is not a bad word.</font></p><hr></blockquote>

[bcc123000]

<div>right.. I visited Fear island the other night after reading this thread... and basically that place is so busy being farmed...</div><div> </div><div>However, I did spend about an hour just fighting mobs in general (and contending with all the other groups fighting and trying to train on me at the same time.. heh)</div><div> </div><div>ended up with like 8 of those stomach things (regular body drops) that sold at the vendor for 14g+ EACH</div><div> </div><div>that's just sick <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div><div> </div>

[SmEaGoLLuM]

<div></div>The body drops are now around 4.8gp so relax - not 14.8gp anymore, has been for almost a week.

[Ever-Befallen]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>SmEaGoLLuM86 wrote:<div></div>The body drops are now around 4.8gp so relax - not 14.8gp anymore, has been for almost a week.<hr></blockquote>it was actually changed yesterday.

[hammong]

<div></div><p>There are other mobs that drop loot worth 14-18g in the game, just not with the same regularity and high frequency that the abomination creatures did on Fear.   The common carnivorous plant mobs on the very first island you come to in Tenebrous drop deathbloom stalks worth 16g.... of course the drop rate is so insanely low that you can make more cash farming relics almost anywhere else.</p><p>Personally, I think the abomination mob incident is SoE's way to encourage people to buy expansions early and often, so you can get a taste of the action for a short while before the situation gets corrected in a normal development cycle.   I made a few plat on it, but I also got about a level of XP killing the mobs and picked up a lot of collection shinys while I was doing it.   It was time well spent.    I'm doing the same thing now in Bonemire, albeit for less profit.</p>

[Lintr]

It was fun times training those Asian-Plat-Farmers (TM) over and over again until their armor broke.  Good times... good times.<div></div>

[Meeker]

<div></div><div></div><p><font color="#ccffff">I'm starting to wonder how many times on how many differnt threads i'm going to have to day this. I'll keep saying it, though, because it's important. </font></p><p><font color="#ccffff">Plat/Item Farming: Perfectly within the rules. A person or person can farm all day long. <em>There is nothing wrong with it.</em></font></p><p><font color="#ccffff">Two-boxing: Also perfectly within the rules. For those of you who claim to be able to tell the differerence between someone botting and two-boxing please list for me the ways in which this is possible. Guildless is not a way. Generated name is not a way. Crap gear...nope not that either. Auto-follow...um no. Can't speak English...not even close. Which leads me to my next point.</font></p><p><font color="#ccffff">Chinese Gold/Plat farmer: Is <em>racist. </em>It doesn't matter if you put (TM) behind it. It's racist terminology and reveals a racist attitude. </font></p><p><font color="#ccffff">Stop it.</font></p><p>Message Edited by Meekerme on <span class="date_text">03-12-2006</span><span class="time_text">09:23 AM</span></p>

[wulfgarthegreat]

<div></div>yes it is racist if you don't know if there chinese.  On the tox server we had a bot grp with one guy runnign all six and yes he was from china.  he wasn't as bad as most of the the bot grps around. would let you kill guys you need for quest or even offer a spot to somebody that was in the zone asking for a grp would kick one of his other 5 char and leave them at the intrance.  So to say there all bad and rude is not right.