Hi GMs, Many of us play for hours or spend hundreds, if not thousands, to earn gold and items in the game. Meanwhile, there are players who clearly are exploiting the game to get easy gold and have turned it into a business. Some don't even care about getting banned because apparently, they have been doing this for months without any consequences. I'm going to show you a fraction of what's been happening. There are players who have been operating multiple bots. Sometimes they farm in pairs (pic 1, and pic 2) or solo (pic 3). The whole server knows about it and there are a few of us doing what we can to stop this by killing those bots multiple times daily. How do we know they're bots? 1) They don't answer when talked to (in multiple languages). 2) They stop picking up valuable items when their bags are full. 3) They won't move or respond after being killed and sometimes would lie there for hours on end. Next, I'll tell you what happens after we kill those bots. The bot operator will come and try to kill us, sometimes, teleporting straight to his bots because they're his disciples. How do we know he's the bot operator? 1) If he's online, he'll come right away when we've killed his bots. 2) He clearly doesn't have that much of an imagination because some bots are named by numbers similar to his name. (eg. Bot operator's name is [Nu] and bot's name is Nu003) 3) If he doesn't come online to kill us, these bots would stay dead on the ground for hours without any activity. With that said, here is a new problem we have. The bot operator has figured out how to manipulate the Wanted and Jail System. He will now try to get players who kill his bots into wanted status. I am uploading two pictures to support this claim. One is showing my character in wanted status for the third time after killing one of the bots and the other one is that of the "Arrest Rank" in Hefei Wanted Constable NPC. I have circled the name of the bot operator getting #1 in Arrest Rank because of how many people he's sent to jail by manipulating this system. My question is, why has nothing been done about it? We have reported this player multiple times and it's no secret. It takes less than 10 mins to lightfoot around Kunlun. They are there more than 12 hrs a day either farming or dead on the ground. It's not that hard to find them. Can no one take 10 mins out of their day to go check up on a game that a lot of people have invested their time and money on? Don't we as customers and players of your game deserve 10 mins of your time? How long are you going to allow this to go on? Every minute that they are allowed to farm, the value of our hard earned gold decreases. Inflation in the game is worse than real life post-COVID economy. I implore you to do something about it. You might say the forum is not the right place for this. But how else can we get your attention? People have been reporting them and it seems like no amount of evidence we send in is enough for you. Pray tell us how to report it any more effectively than this? This is a game that we treasure. Many of us have been playing this game, off and on, since the late 2000s. We've made friends and we've made enemies. We love the community and the game. Please help us enjoy the game the way it's meant to be enjoyed. This can't go on.
My theory is that 9dragons english is shutting down soon maybe summer 2025 same like papaya shutdown this summer. Redfox already knows this so they don't bother investing time in game that will soon shut down. Also KL box farmers are good for profit because BSS price was 350kk-400kk now its 1500-1600kk so F2P players CANNOT compete with bots by farming themselves they can only buy BSS from market. During summer I could farm for 2hours and buy some good noobie relic like SEO5 set or KL6s set now I would need for farm all day to get same relics. Returning players will see how expensive everything is and if they don't plan to spend real $$$ they will just quit after 1 hour of playing. Player base will keep shrinking until its just p2w whales and Tao server will look like Yin server with 5 people in hefei. This is how 9Dragons always die after Acclaim: 1. Massive inflation so you either have to farm 24/7 or spend real $$$ 2. F2P players stop playing the game 3. Whales fight other whales spending massive $$$ on item mall 4. Whales get bored of playing on dying server and they just quit 5. Game gets shut down because it is not profitable anymore 6. ???? 7. ???? 8. Some other publisher picks up the rights to release game in english language 9. Old school players fondly remember the good childhood/teenage memories of playing 9Dragons with friends so they start playing again 10. Return to step 1 Its a miracle that this time the redfox version survived for so long maybe because of steam launch so many players saw that 9Dragons is back so they returned. Usually it takes 3-4years for the game to die like a phoenix and rise from the ashes. Acclaim > gamecampus? > gamersfirst > redfox > ??? who knows If Xmas event is pure cashgrab with no way for F2P player to farm I will probably just quit the game until some other company picks it up after 5 years. See you guys in 2030^^
May I add to this as well. 1. New or existing players that play PvE are always run off because of the PvP they wish not to be a part of. PvE Community: Players like to farm, grind or help others with quest, bosses, dungeons or just chillax and talk. PvP'ers will come and PK and harass PvE'ers and keep PKing them over and over again. They are then forced to either log a lower lvl char or go sit in Hefei. There is no place for the casual (PvE) players. 2. Item Mall Events: For about the last year, all the events have been focused on BSS (Blue Splendor Stones) being the main item to make or have something good. Making 90%+ of all events based of Item Mall items or making the Create Chance so low that the average player can't make or get them. 9D has always been a grind/farm based game and having to put time into getting your items, that we all got used to it and know the pain and satisfaction of getting them. 3 PvP - This 1 shot PvP that is now the way of the game is the most retarded part of 9Dragons. Players cant fight back and trying to enjoy 9D as a PvE'er is impossible. 4. When was the last time the GM's held an event for the players, such as: Spawning bosses or mobs in Hefei, BP, LL, KL or even LD? I have never known of 1 boss event or anything like that. X/O map dont count, but when was the last X/O event? I could go on and on, but thats good for now. Good Luck, Have Fun and Later!
With all these proof, why can't the GM just execute a mass ban on these bots, especially on the operator himself?
