Lol this sounds like an troll

I call bullshit on this. A bot wont be able to compensate for the changing situations of a fps and as such id say it would actually be a hinderens. Chinese power players hell chinese arnt even alowed to see google on the interneti doubt they can sell there services to level up players in games that are most probally still cut off from china. Eve is in china has a seperate server for them last I heard no dust for them yet

lol bots are not possible on the PS3 so thats out of the way. And chinese players are only aible to do that on PC not PS3 simply cause PS3's are quite rare there. Main reason for this is that PS3's are expensive and you cant pirate games on it unlike PC's which is very popular in china. So both options are unlikely to happend.

Permaban & hardware & ISP ban all botters. On both their EvE & Dust accounts.

Blizzard didnt used to do so badly at bannin bots on d2. The Chinese stuff works because it isnt a bot. I know you can just sign up with another account and get bottling again, but the threat needs to be there. IF they have evidence of breach of EULA. I agree, it will detract from development in other areas.
Basically, prevention > cure.
Universal rolling cap for the win. That way it'll be some months atleast before it's worth paying someone to power level you.

The question is, what happens when you can trade a PLEX for a levelling service in game?

The point is to not create incentives for factory farming that you then have to spend great amounts of effort to eradicate.

CCP must have someone on staff who is paid to think of these things, don't they?

LOL @ Chinese power levelers.

If anybody is stupid enough to give somebody in China (or anybody for that matter) their PSN login details and pay them, I will laugh very hard when they cry to Sony and CCP about their PSN account being hijacked and/or CC charged $400 in PS store purchases.

I agree no cap is a very bad idea, but paying people to level your character and bots? This isn't the PC world of gaming, that kind of thing is almost completely unheard of on console games. The worst I have seen is a group of friends sharing one character and each playing a specific time slot so they can essentially play 24/7.

"Let players buy SP strait from CCP. They can cut out the Chinese farmers middleman from the game before it starts and bots wont be worthwhile making and developing in the first place. Sure its not great that players can just buy SP, but think about it,.... they can do that anyway right? They just hire a chump to grind for them and play when they want. So its always going to be pay to win."

This would be good under one condition...SKILLED MATCHMAKING.... this would truly make the game pay to win, by allowing people to just buy SP. Right now you buy passive booster, which is an advatage over others that may not be able to afford them.


If there is no sp cap, or if you are allowed to buy sp, skilled matchmaking has to be put into effect for PUB matches.

DCUO would like a word with you.

And yes, there are power-levellers and account hackers selling high-level DCUO characters illegally. For the most part, though, they're creating and power-levelling characters on their own account then selling it, or hijacking the accounts of people who already have high-level characters.

Any option for doing this fills three important criteria that will limit its use:

1. Doesn't give significant advantage.
2. Doesn't help with the practical experience that makes a high-tier character worth paying attention to.
3. Violates both PSN and CCP terms of use and can get your accounts banned.

Only reasonable thing I could see happening is somebody paying somebody else to level up some random PSN account and character in Dust. Or perhaps somebody selling their own random PSN account that has been leveled. I'll give you that.

But I just can't see it happening with any sort of regularity that would warrant serious concern. PC gaming mentality =/= Console gaming mentality. I could be horribly wrong, but I really don't see it being a major issue.

Firstly, not sure what your point is. My point was that DUST 514 isn't alone as a PS3 MMO, and I provided an example of one that's already released.

And second, my mistake, haven't been following the game closely. It went into beta this month. Still, DUST is ahead in a sense because it's already had a year of beta.

As I already said though, it doesn't matter which comes out first, DCUO is still out and the fact that there's another PS3 MMO in development as well as DUST only supports the argument I'm making.