Botting

Ridiculous!

Botting is useing a third party program, usually called a bot, to play the game completley for you. If you are just jamming your heal button (which is really, all thats necessary on some maps) who gives a crap? While you might be doing something else at the time, like texting on your blackberry, so the hell what? Its not like you see MapleTips saying doing anything other then having your complete and undivided attention on your character while you play is considered botting. Say I shut my eyes and fell half asleep, doing nothing but pressing my shift (happened to me once, got too tired while training) and woke up an hour later from this half-slumber wth 10% more exp then i did before (Ignoring the possibility of that, it is an example). Since I was not paying attention, would that be considered botting? Hell no! I'm not using 3rd party programs to carry out complex game functions while im off say, on a date with my girlfriend. I belive you guys are reading the ToS section a bit too generally- The extra crap about "or any other behavior that allows you (or any character you are controlling) to automatically function or effect any action in a game with or without your presence. " is just there so that people cannot argue back when they say they didn't technically use a programmable "bot" but some other bullcrap programmable device such as mentioned before, a programmable keyboard. Thats just there for Nexon to be able to pull that part of the ToS as an excuse to ignore pleas of defence once their account is banned. Whatever your guys morals may be, really who gives a crap if hes getting is homework done? Hes letting his character train with a stapler, still at his computer keeping track of the screen making sure he doesn't die, that constitutes him being present. Leaving the stapler on the keyboard while he wasn't there, as we know, wouldn't work anyway because of the limited attack defence, and he would probobly get killed either way depending on what he was training on.

TL;DR: You're blowing the definition of botting WAY, WAY out of proportion. It would be simple over-exageration and over generalization to consider something like this botting.



Even more ridiculous! It is nothing like autoclicking. He is still playing the game, and paying enough attention to keep his character alive while hes doing it, and getting his homework done!
Kudos to the OP for being clever in this manner. Either way, I seriously doubt the GMs give a crap about this kind of thing anyway...

It's unfair because he can do something else and still get the rewards of experience while all the legits grind for hours upon hours. You are the rediculous one, as botting doesn't necessarily have to be a third-party program. It's attacking without actually performing the action of attacking, or pressing down the button yourself. Also, would you notice a difference whether he was near the computer, in another room, or in another state looking at his character in the game?

To the bolded, then he would be performing an action, and it wouldn't be botting. The TC never said he was paying attention.

Besides, how is just holding a button down with a stapler fun?