Gold for Currency Exchange

i keep hearing that one needs to "play the game" to get gold but in reality you just need to enter the game on a prepared character, click on fixed position in the screen to open a area and autotargeting skills and autohoover of gold take care of the rest until you exit to char screen and restart.

you don´t need programming skills to abuse that, a autohotkey or autoIT script would be sufficient which´ usage isn´t forbidden cause most tools use it.

in poe2 it´s even worse cause you can just have your bot accounts grab and selll endgame mats from the guild stash to get masses of gold.

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vio#1992 wrote:

i keep hearing that one needs to "play the game" to get gold but in reality you just need to enter the game on a prepared character, click on fixed position in the screen to open a area and autotargeting skills and autohoover of gold take care of the rest until you exit to char screen and restart.

you don´t need programming skills to abuse that, a autohotkey or autoIT script would be sufficient which´ usage isn´t forbidden cause most tools use it.

2 things: Good luck programming something like that and not getting banned. That is exactly the type of botting the game is designed to catch. Things like that haven't been "allowed" since the game entered 1.0. I used to run exactly the type of bot you describe for lake runs in the beta, and even back then my character was caught and banned for it. "Most tools use it" is a fairly ignorant comment as well: they don't use anything remotely like the type of automated play you describe. Not even close. I actually challenge you to name ONE tool that uses a "play your character" program. The closest possible example is a logout macro, which has noticeable differences in scope and style, acting not on the character but on the menu. At a very infrequent rate I might add, not 100% uptime.

Also, even if you were able to do that it STILL serves as a bot limiter in that it takes time to gather the gold. It also takes resources. You would need to feed the bot maps and gear almost constantly and micro-manage it in such a way the average bot-farm simply doesn't do.

But as I already said, gold cost is not a perfect solution. A solution doesn't actually exist. It's all about mitigation. There are ways around anything and everything GGG throws at the bot problem.