Raid is a pesticide for killing bugs. I got a solution for the bots!
Everyone is aware of these Demon Slater bots botting for Elite Bosses and fly/ vacuum all the items in the bonus stage. Bots are also used in training by some suspicious high level people or to get a HS/Kishin mule. Some low level bots such as Jetts, are used to advertise in Henesys/FM as well as Ard.
I understand GMs in charge of user abuse don't approve this and make an effort to ban these bots/lazy players using perm bans. A problem is that botters, reproduce very fast due to just the fact that have random sequences for their IGNs and all they do is loop a script with a few loops and coordinates.
To prevent bots from reproducing or have players who just won't listen, would it be wise to first install captchas to test all players. Then send those who fail 5x into "limbo-ban" (it can lead to temporary ban if it is a user with an IGN that somewhat makes sense as well as its Nexon ID and Email, otherwise bots would be banned permanently via their MAC address and Nexon ID and that user won't be able to play/bot again.) You may wonder "they can get another PC," or "They multi-client, not good enough," but this system will continue and eventually, each MAC ban would cost the person hundreds of dollars, and even if they do sell the Maplestory2 items for real currency, they would eventually lose money and stop botting.
I hope that adding this system would benefit all the servers since bots cannot sell deflated goods, advertise sites, or benefit those who are too lazy to play.
Even though they might have used some unorthodox method to gather these goods, what happens to us normal consumers that buy some of these maplestory2 items? Are we always at risk if we buy from 'anyone'?
I've been meaning to write this for some time now, but I've restrained myself from doing so out of my belief that Nexon would fix itself before June.
I would like to think that my equip-able items that I have are now outdated, even though they were considered higher tier items when i played years ago. What would be the high tier or endgame Maplestory2 items be nowadays?
Best way to make maplestory2 mesos w/o spending real money?