Missed Botcheck fine for NCB (in General)

Ok, I just missed two botchecks in a row and was imposed with an hour wait or a fine of $240K CB2.

That seems a bit steep. We are already paying through the nose for BA and upgrading of our items, why kick us when we are down with a huge botcheck fine?

IMO, there should be no difference for any character regarding the botcheck fine. N*B, or regular character's should have the same fine amounts at the same MPR.

The point is that the fine *is* the same, regardless of what type of character it is. The fine is based on how much benefit you get from being able to fight/forge during that hour...

Except that you don't get significantly more forging done or CB$ earned on a NCB... you can only get significantly more XP, and that's it.

Isn't it BA Cost * Amount of BA you stand to lose ?

I am in the 7/20 BA rate, so in an hour I would regen 21 BA.

My current cost for BA is 5,798. That only equals $121,758.

I have no idea where $240K came from. I think it is way too high.

Okay, so it's (BA Cost * Amount of BA you stand to lose) * 2

Thats not too bad, unless you're running an NCB :P

I guess the reason why it's x2 , is because if you pay the fine, you are earning both exp and money. As opposed to the total lost of 21 BA. Also if it's such a fair price that you are earning back what you are supposed to, then it wouldn't qualify as a fine....

It's steep, but it's also a mechanism that wouldn't fail unless you are too sleepy or using a bot, at least for people who played for more than a week

As I recall, DAWG was using a bot and just failing every check and paying the fine. So yeah, high fines are good.

Nope, DAWG didn't do it like that...

Do you happen to have close to full BA when you failed the bot check? The probability of a bot check actually causing you material loss is quite small... So be extra careful with the first 21 BA of a set of 160.

BA doesn't regenerate while you're fight suspended.

bart, I thought you guys had said that he answered every bot check with "cccc"

Not every. Enough to be noticed ;)

When we went to ba regeneration every 20 minutes, the botcheck fine doubled. IE rewards went up 2x as did cost for BA. However I do not think Jon programmed the botcheck failure for the new 20 min rate. It is based still on a 10 min rate.

I wondered about that Ranger, it's just been so long since I got suspended I wasn't sure.

This was posted before:

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0026Ui