Really tired of level 7's autoclicking chests on Ilum.

You are prob one of the ones doing this... Anyone who doesnt see how this is bad is either A) Doing it themselves. or B) Dumb as a rock.

Which one are you?

Actually in wow there was an exploit when MC (vanilla) launched that let you loot DOMO's chest. They banned the people / farmers / bots that did it if I remember correctly. Same thing needs to happen here.

I read the entire thread, saw the videos, and not one person has mentioned the easiest fix for this:

Have the chest spawn at various places with varying cool downs between spawns. It could spawn here or there or 5 other places each time it spawns. It also could spawn in 7 minutes or it could be 30 minutes or even 3 hours. Remove the benefit for camping them and problem solved. The 'intended' good feeling for being the lucky guy to come across one remains.

All the chests need is a RNG added to them.

Assuming the CGFs don't visit or read the forums, BW should just add a couple of chests to Ilum that will drop 1 million credits and a really epic, rare (but useless) piece of loot. Warn all of the players to not touch these chests, then wait for the gold farmers to camp them and ban everyone who touches the special chests.

Yes, a good business model encourages MMO companies to keep elements of their community that really piss paying subscribers off and threatens the security and integrity of the MMO...

What hacker or RMTer pays for subscriptions anymore? That's money out of their pocket that I'm sure they'd rather have in profit while they bleed the MMO.

Developers most likely loose more money to fraud from RMT and people leaving their MMO because of hacking, exploits, and RMT than they lose from the RMTers and hackers they ban.

Actually, it's intended to be looted after a player kills the monsters guarding it.

That alone is a huge oversight on BW's part.

This makes the most sense.

At the very least, it would require a human being to be moving around to GET the chest instead of a botting program that can loot it like we have now.

saw a level 20 on correlia doing that, and i killed him, he was standing behind two champion republic mobs, waiting for chest pops, he was just afk. You shouldnt be allowed to loot chests guarded by friendly npcs thats just bad design.

That's the other thing: these chests are typically guarded by elite or better mobs, meaning that BW intended for players to gather them AFTER killing the mobs, not standing there AFK for days on end, autolooting the chests.

Gold farmers do NOT create credits out of whole cloth. They farm it within the game. There is absolutely no difference between a gold farmer and a guy sitting at work farming the same thing over and over and accumulating a huge sum of credits. I've seen it in other games. I have a friend in City of Heroes that has 67 BILLION influence. If you sold his accumulation of gear he would easily be over 200 billion. He bought zero..nothing. it is all farmed. When he wants gear..he easily overbids anyone. The devs in this game built inflation into the game. The whole game is full of money sinks. That will have a bigger effect than junior using dads credit card and buying 5 mill credits.

Think about when the first expansion comes out and everything inflates....they should have devalued the credit and had earnings and expenses at 10% of what they are now. Games dont have real economies. stop trying to act like there really is supply and demand in a game.