Heyo, Im the guy who got a temp ban for fishing too much

Talked to Se on the phone and cleared everything up afterwards, they gave me the contact info for the american representative for the STF.

The real issue here is the only way to contact this person is by literally mailing him by paper at SE's headquarters.

What we need is a way to contact the STF by email directly to message inquiries.

The STF director is over here in America, btw. His office is at SE headquarters near LA.

If you call SE support and ask for the Director of Special Task Force's contact information they can give you the address to mail him.

I already sent a letter to SE about this issue myself, and I urge others to do the same so he hears what we have to say.

As for the banning: I can confirm I was not breaking the ToS at the time in any way. I racked up over 40 hours of fishing in a 2 day period.

The reason for this was I took a long nap right before the update for Ebisu+1 dropped, so I woke up right as patch landed (set alarm and everything) then pulled an all nighter grinding for 20 hours.

I then went to sleep for I think 4 hours, and grinded for 20 more hours, while taking a couple 2 hour naps.

The Ebisu quest involves travelling all around the world catching a single fish of 100 different types. You cannot cheat in any way to do this quest, and even if I wanted to cheat (which I don't and tell everyone I know not to do, its not worth the risk), it was immeaditly (literally) after a new patch, and everyone knows cheating methods generally break right after a patch anyways.

As I will always say, do not cheat, I even recommend against using the tools that automatically swap gear for you. Even those are not necessary for a skilled player now that SE added gearswaps.

Fishing minigame means fishing isnt as boring as it used to be, don't fish bot! Its super not worth risking your account over!

Flee hacks are just super blatant cheating, don't use them, not only will you definitely get banned but you endanger the accounts of anyone you do runs with when using the program, as they can get banned with you!!! This is a big deal!

Gearswapping third party tools are really not necessary unless you want to be very lazy, as SE added gearsets to the game. Clever use of macros, the /macro set command, proper use of <wait #> command, and other clever macro tricks are more than enough to get by for anything I can imagine in game.

There is no need for third party programs that display party TP, as there is a command in game that does this! Don't need that either!!!!

Finally, crafting bot programs are also completely unnecessary and only lazy cheaters would use them. For those that don't know, SE added the /lastsynth command awhile back that makes you redo the last synth you did.

The following in game macro will do the same synth 5 times and then do <call15> in chat to notify you to do the macro again. No cheating necessary once again!

/lastsynth <wait 23>
/lastsynth <wait 23>
/lastsynth <wait 23>
/lastsynth <wait 23>
/lastsynth <wait 18>
/p Times up! <call 15>
I am proud to say I do not use 3rd party software at all at this time, despite playing beastmaster, summoner, and dancer. All jobs a lot of players seem to think you need to use 3rd party stuff to be able to handle.

Instead I have a large amount of gearswaps full but more importantly a LOT of macros full.

Learning how to properly use the following things will make your life a lot easier:

/itemsearch "Name" - Lists instances of item "Name" in your various inventories. Good for when you cant find a specific item.

/macro set/book # - Swaps your current macro book or set to value. Great for making tiling macros.

Example:

Summoner macro sets
#1: Holds the macros to summon avatars
#2-8 Holds macro commands for specific BPs of avatars

Have each macro in set 1 finish with /macro set # so you swap to the macro set to that avatar.

IE

/ma Carbuncle
/macro set 2 (this set has carby's blood pacts in it)

Furthermore, you could set ctrl-0 in macro sets 2-8 to /release and then /macro set 1 to go back to the start.

Instead of shuffling around trying to find the right set, having your set #1 act as a 'menu' to select other sets (IE ctrl-0 on every set sends you back to 0, and ctrl 1-9 selects sets 1-9) is a good way to quickly flip through macro sets on the fly.

<bt> - the current battle target (denoted by having a red name)

<stpc> the next player you can do the command on
<stpt> the next party member you can do the command on.

IE you can easily cast sneak on the whole party with just /ma Sneak <stpt>

Each time it'll cycle to the next player that is avialable!

<p1>..<p5> your party members!
<a10>...<a15> <a20>...<a25> your alliance members!

I think a lot of the reason people still use third party stuff is they have no idea most of the functionality is just built in to the game itself, and they don't know it.

There is just no need to cheat in ffxi anymore, really. The only cheaters now are people pos hacking around, which is just blatant "I dont want to work for my reward, Ill just teleport to it" cheating.

And they deserve their bans.