By Phil F. Kearny
I have not done a report on bots in quite a while so i decided to go out in the world and see how the usual suspects are doing. I took a visit to an old favourite, Party Like a Rockstar. Wow things have certainly changed here! We have gone from traffic of the high 20,000s down to a more realistic 258.
Is it possible that the Lindens gave them the smackdown? In any case I guess those people fishing in the back and the bots up in the skybox really do help to get you more traffic!
Looks like they will have to work a little bit harder to make it to that donation goal. Die Bots Die! I just feel bad for the designers who saw that inflated traffic figure and leased useless space in mall that no one visits.
Bots and Campers steal resources that could be used by real avatars. If your simulator shares a server with a bot farmer your performance suffers! Is this fair? Is it fair to the content creators who are looking for real traffic to sell their products to? Is it fair for newcomers who come into the game looking to see what Second Life is all about to be confronted by non-speaking non-moving scripted entities? It’s more fun to watch corn grow.
Death to Bots.
The Lindens love bots of course. They inflate their own numbers and make it look like the world is actually more populated than it really is. But its all a counterproductive sham. I would bet there are only really a couple of hundred thousand hard core residents who actually are here and make the world an interesting place to be in. Why do we even need bot armies? To unfairly increase traffic ratings of course. And of course the Lindens left a loophole by saying most bots and campers are bad and will not be tolerated, but some bots like models and group inviters are ok. So now we have this situation.
I took a visit to a clothing designer who has a higher traffic rating than clubs with 24/7 entertainment. How is this possible? Are there 25 plus avatars in the sim constantly shopping? Of course not. The answer of course is the “Model Bot”
Is this really necessary? Having bots model clothes? Why not a mannequin? Surely this must be possible. Supposedly, the Lindens are going to provide a method for a Clothing designer such as this to self identify their bots so they don’t show up in traffic. That would be great. As if the cheaters are going to self identify themselves. What a laugh. I will bet you if that if this is enforced , suddenly these designers will have a change of heart and decide that they don’t really really need model bots anymore. They will vanish quicker than a stack of singles in a strip club.
Something smells fishy here!
I can rant and rave all i want but i cannot change a thing. SO i figured if you can’t beat em, join them. I made myself a little platform and picture and stood around for a while. It was fun to hang out there amongst the living dead and greet people as they walked passed.
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