Bot check choice of words. (in General)

Don't you think it would be better if the bot checks used more common words than what I've seen. It would make it easier for players and still hard for Bots. I've seen words just today like lieu, and ebb. The average player (young teenager) doesn't even know what ebb is.

That's not a bug, it's a feature!

Actually, I like that it uses such unusual words. I also like the idea that young people are being exposed to words that they don't know. Maybe a few of them will have the initiative to look them up.

well whenever I'm in the middle of Forging I'm not going to go look up what the word "ebb" means. I'm only saying this because it's harder for some based on the fact that they have no idea what that word is. If it's a common word it will trigger in their mind a lot easier than a hard word would. bots still have a difficult time because word selection only affects the human players.

Quick lets dumb everything down, that way the stupid get stupider =P

Just kidding...

The smaller the vocabulary is, the easier it is for a bot to be accurate enough.

heh.. I'm having a good time, learning what those strange words are.
(I'm as you probably can tell by my sentence structure, and badly grammar, not a native english speaker).
Ebb however, isn't that the opposite of flood?
Tidal waves and such.

i like the word variety too - wierd words are fun! /me likes large lexicons!

just a question for jon, where do you get your words from? (or would revealing that make it easier for bots?)

something like "grep [a-z][a-z][a-z]? /usr/dict > list_of_botcheck_words" perhaps ? (Syntax may be off, but the gist stands..)

/me actually does stop fighting to look up words sometimes...

If any words are removed from the list, please leave enough of the "good ones" to give us simpletons a laugh once in a while.

May I also suggest adding "fart" , since that is _always_ funny.

old//fart ... j/k

I also like the variety. You never know what 'word' you're going to get! New players shouldn't have such a big problem with those things. Just read what it says, and type it in the little box. Does it matter whether it's a word you know or not? Hotmail and PayPal use code verification too. And theirs are a lot harder to read. It all adds to the security.