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New "improved" manor (now a botters' exclusive)I'm really upset over this change that isn't mentioned anywhere in the patch notes. The manor was one of the few ways that a casual player could earn money while xping, but from now on it's going to be bot exclusive.
With the old manor you could manage to turn in your crops by being precise in your timing. To beat the bots you only had set up your sale in advance and then click the sell button at the exact right time. It was possible to win because the bots only had a precision of within 1 second, while a human could manage it within a few 10ths of a second.
With the new manor you can't se up your sale in advance anymore. It's now a matter of who can react to the manor update and complete the whole sell process in the fastest time. The sell process is a set of procedures that takes a couple seconds for a human to finish manually. This means that there's no way to beat the bots, because they can manage this at least 10x faster than a player could. For the popular mats you can't even see the crops before they're gone.
This change is really promoting botting in a big way. Is this really what NCsoft wants? It might not be a problem in Korea where they actually police botting and follow up on bot reports, but on our bot infested and long neglected servers it's a catastrophe.