Concerning Rich Thorium Veins

[Lssug 0]

Hey there,

apparently it seems to be a thing now to not completely harvest Rich Thorium Veins, leaving behind one last hit and preventing the node from respawning. No normal player would ever do that, since he wants to get the maximum personal profit out of a node. So it is obvious, that this practice originated from professional goldfarmer syndicates, resulting in a gathering imbalance of at least 3:1 up to 5:1 for them.

Since it is almost impossible to find those who use this method, there is a simple soliution for that: Once a vein has been hit, there is a X second time window to finish gathering the node before it despawns automatically, forcing the gatherer to take out all the ores, else resulting in personal loss of profit.

At this point in time those 1-hit-veins don't ocurr that often, but if this does get out of hand, I would highly appreciate if actions were taken.

Kind regards,

A Winterspring farmer

[Alrik 6]

Why would "professional goldfarmer syndicates" leave 1 hit in the Ore?

What kind of benefit do they get from that?

[Lssug 0]

If they find a Vein, they get up to 5 ores, if you find a vein, you will only get 1.

So if you e.g. wanna level up your blacksmith you are forced to buy their ore form the AH.

Globally, the ammount of ores and bars will decrease, due to the reduced respawns of nodes, but the balance will shift and fill the syndicate's bags faster than yours.

 

Edited March 23, 2017 by Lssug

[Alrik 6]

Yeaaa... thats BS.

They'd eventually run out of Nodes. People trying this hard don't farm 3 Nodes in Winterspring and then log off.

[Lssug 0]

This ofc only works if there are normal players around who finish off the left-over nodes. And since you never know if the vein you approach is such a corrupted one, you inevitably paricipate in their method. You finish off the node and start its respawn. So the overall balance for each node treated like this has an average of 4:1 ores for the goldfarmer.

I'm not an economist, but this is quite obvious that there is a financial motive behind this.

[Alrik 6]

But then they wouldn't know the Respawn Timer of that Node.

People farming stuff like that communicate the Timers in a Discord or something.

"Picked Blood of Heroes at 47.20 @12:45" 

[Lssug 0]

Well, you cannot compare Blood of Heroes with Thorium. Statistically it works out for the goldsellers.

[Hurricane2 2]

I don't see how gold farmers going out of their way to farm less statistically works out for them.

[Haestingas 30]

hahahaha omg this is rich

[Xylon666Darkstar 4]

I love Rich Thorium Veins. But I'll be sure to leave the last hit for you, OP.

[Lorilay 12]

On 3/23/2017 at 4:03 AM, Lssug said:

Hey there,

apparently it seems to be a thing now to not completely harvest Rich Thorium Veins, leaving behind one last hit and preventing the node from respawning. No normal player would ever do that, since he wants to get the maximum personal profit out of a node. So it is obvious, that this practice originated from professional goldfarmer syndicates, resulting in a gathering imbalance of at least 3:1 up to 5:1 for them.

Since it is almost impossible to find those who use this method, there is a simple soliution for that: Once a vein has been hit, there is a X second time window to finish gathering the node before it despawns automatically, forcing the gatherer to take out all the ores, else resulting in personal loss of profit.

At this point in time those 1-hit-veins don't ocurr that often, but if this does get out of hand, I would highly appreciate if actions were taken.

Kind regards,

A Winterspring farmer

Ironically, I regularly do this to fuck with the Chinese farmers botting eagle eye on all the thorium spawns in Burning Steppes.