I should honestly try setup my foraging bot. I miss the old days when lag foraging was nice and easy. Nowadays I rarely see any curios other then the stuff ramones trades. Feals like I'm smooching.
But in all generality, foraging bots are a PAIN IN THE GUT to use. They need constant upkeep and you need to sit and stair at them going in circles for hours on end. If you afk they might get attacked and killed so its hella risky. Some enjoy foraging but I hate it and W6 I starved for curios for over a year with a bricked mountain till matti showed up and helped setup the forager. Even then it wasn't an easy task to forage bot. The forager got attacked constantly and the whole maintenance with using it was like pulling teeth.
I dono why I haven't set the auto forager up this world but its mostly cause of the bad experience I had with auto foraging. For the rest of EC, well I have tried to tell them botting makes life easier but they wont have it.
To be honest I dono how people play this game for the extent of the period they do play it without bots. Just doing the same repetitive tasks over and over just to get to the good stuff is insane. Maybe the first few months, maybe maybe a a year of continues farming / foraging. But after 2-3 years if your still doing the same tasks it astonishes me and confuses me that some people enjoy repeating the most rudimentary tasks like farming / lumbering / hunger grinding / silk making / foraging. Yes every single profession in hnh.
Early world it was impossible to use bots cause nothing was even halfway stable for bots to be used. 1 minute you were out hunting and the next you were cutting woods. Other second it was organizing cubs. If hnh looked like that from day one and onwards bots wouldn't be needed. The game would be interesting on its own. But when game reaches the so called "grinding stage" I personally enjoy scripting. I have never enjoyed a game more then haven because I had the opportunity to learn how to script and honestly if jorb and loftar would have removed that aspect of the game from me I would quit the game in a heartbeat unless it was replaced by a interactive game that is interesting in all its repetitive tasks. If I was anti bot and completely against using scripts the maze would be a complete impossibility nore would I have stuck around for as long as I have. Most likely would have jumped ship to some other MMO for some new fun and break the monotony of havens grind.
I can see how some people have to replant the same crops 50 times over and it kills there game play. I don't want that to happen to anyone in this game. If I was to choose I would simply help recode the shitty aspects of this game to make it easier. I have said it over and over. Bots do not have the slightest chance against players who fight for the best quality. Bots are good at bulk where the same boring shitty task needs to be done every day and without questions asked for at least 2-3 hours. If anyone is stubbern enough to not realize how stupid it is to force people into a work simulator and not give them the chance to ease that burden with bots your as thick as they come.
Gaming and fun should go hand in hand. If you enjoy playing haven but you first need to grind 20 hours a week to do the stuff you enjoy your seriously working for free in a work simulator. By that it means that a task that continuously needs to be repeated for other parts of the game to open up. At that point you have either the chance to quit or to learn how to script. If you choose to script you will discover more of the game and go deeper. If you don't you simply will turn into one of the flakier hnh players who haven't even seen a troll, built anything but there own base or been part of the whole world history. I should also ad that I really am astonished by the people that still do everything by hand in a large base, doing large fields by hand is a very hardcore task and reserved for the most hardcore type of hnher. But if you gave that task to anyone but the most unique player they would quit after 2 weeks. If we want to filter all the non hardcore players out of this game we would end up with a player base half of what we have now. Why do you think the world started with 1000 players and now have droped down to roughly 500 or less. In about 3 months or so the player base will level out at maybe half that. Remove all the bots and you will end up with a dead server.
and the best way of avoiding that and keeping everyone happy is for you to say forage botting is not a problem, which is what you have done, effectively.
