Hi DarkWater and thanks for your opinion!
DarkWater wrote:LOL, so who do we know you are going to drop all the items you collect?
If you want an honest answer, then of course there's no feasible way for you to check that we really drop all items just because everything happens very quickly during a drop party.
So the only thing we can do, is to give you our word as fellow players enjoing the same online game that we won't take any items or money out of the bot for our own purposes. In fact both lostinjapan and I have been donating quite a lot ourselves (accounting to more than 80% of the donations for the first few parties).
If you had been to one of our previous drop parties, you could also have seen that all rare items donated found new owners and didn't end up in our own inventories
And why should people help you gain popularity off their items? Or are you going to store the names of the poeople that donate to your bot, and personally thank them when it is done?
The bot registers the name of the donor and the items donated in a log file. Before any drop party begins, we mention all the donors and try to emphasize those who made exceptional donations (rare items or big donations).
Besides being the guys who came up with the idea for the bot and who implemented it, we don't really get any popularity "off somebody elses items".
What items do you expect to get?
It's a trash can. Drop off what you like (or rather don't like anymore) and we'll distribute it for you. If you don't want to donate anything it's fine as well, you're still welcome to join the drop party.
On the other hand the drop parties become what everybody makes them to be, so if there are only cactus potions and arrows inside it'll get pretty boring.
Third, drop parties are not help. The vast majority of drop parties go to the people that have mods/knowledge to exploit the system. For example, if you move to a higher level on the map makes are higher in the pickup function.
How is giving people items that already know how to exploit the system helping anyone?
I don't get what you mean with the second sentence, but I know there are modified clients with additional features like auto-pickup. Might players using such a client have better chances to get items? Yes, might as well be. But TMW is an open source game and everybody is free to modify the source code as they wish, and as long everybody sticks to the rules I don't see a problem with that. Actually, being able to modify the client is what makes this bot possible in the first place ^^
DonationBot only does what it promises: It distributes all the donated items in a drop party. Whoever ends picking up a specific items is still determined by the server, the players and quite a lot of luck
Finally, nothing should be free, except for keys and advice.
Nobody should be paying for advice -- we don't need to talk about that.
But why do you care about what items one player decides to give to another? It's up to those players. Why shouldn't I be allowed to give my 100th leather shirt to a newbie who'll have a lot more fun with it? A lot of time is spent on item grinding in TMW and I think everybody is happy to sometimes get a little help from a fellow player. It's not a single player game anyway
Don't you want to share some of your wealth with you other fellow players?
lmfao @ people that think the internet is serious business.