Bots are now teleporting from mob to mob.

They need a handle on this before pvp. Can you imagine people teleporting in pvp?

really? you guys go to this forum but don't take the time to read the news section?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8d1f1df953c121

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Originally Posted by Sanctus

really? you guys go to this forum but don't take the time to read the news section?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...8d1f1df953c121

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Yeah I saw that but they are still everywhere, SE is going to have to ban a LOT more to make any difference.

SE is aware of the teleport hacks, but it isn't exactly an easy job to create a countermeasure that never targets legit players and what hackers can't circumvent easily.

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Originally Posted by XenoSamurai

I was in the North Shroud today to farm diremite webs and there was a person teleporting from Diremite to Diremite, so now bots can not only teleport from gathering spots but they can port from mob to mob? The person had a very normal name and was wearing dungeon gear and had a chocobo following them around.

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OH GOOODY now they are puling a gw2 on us. Oh my. Stick a fork in the AH (at least anything normally farmable) Its done...

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Originally Posted by Engineer

OMG this is why I couldnt find diremites there. I thought Gamerscape was trolling me on the locations. Thats sad, I had no choice but to buy some in the market boards which were expensive.

This is ruining the game, I cant even level my weaver properly.

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You don't actually need Diremite to level up. You can completely skip it. You only need a couple for the level 30 class quest. I only used 8 diremite or something on my weaver.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

SE is aware of the teleport hacks, but it isn't exactly an easy job to create a countermeasure that never targets legit players and what hackers can't circumvent easily.

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I defend FFXIV a lot. It's my favorite mmo but most mmos do not have teleport hacks. I don't know why and how they're able to do it in this one.

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Originally Posted by Reslin

They need a handle on this before pvp. Can you imagine people teleporting in pvp?

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Considering only 10% or less of FF players actually care about PvP as it's obviously a PvE focused game, I don't see the problem.

Rather than buying webs, you can:

1. Save up some leve points.
2. Gather or buy several stacks of cotton boll.
3. Gather or buy a stack or two of animal hide/hard leather. (6 boll : 1 leather)
4. Goto Quarrymill and do the Cotton Coif Of Gathering triple turn in leve until:
   a) You're blue in the face. b) You're past the point of needing diremite webs to level. and/or c) You've gained several stacks of diremite webs from the leve rewards.

By doing this, you can bypass the need to feed the farmers, gain some gill yourself and get past the diremite bottleneck all at the same time. :p

The problem with the teleporting botters is that you can't fully get rid of it, you can just try and catch them. I saw someone farming another animal once, and he would disappear from one, then appear to the other. But I realized he was lagging really really badly, and the server just rapidly updated his position which the client accepts as a dissapear from here, and re-apear over there.. It is the extreme end of rubber banding. So some of these people aren't bots. They have lag. Which means if they try and fix the bots, they also can block people with lag. And that itself is why the botters can do it at all.

I know most people think this is easy and SE are just being lazy, but. On the surface it looks easy. But having some experience with networking development, databases, and lag, I can tell you there is rarely anything easy about it at all. You can spend weeks getting the logic perfect, only to realize there is a corner case you missed, and the whole thing needs to be reworked (and sometimes it isn't worth it...) Not that I expect anyone to trust me at face value. But it is a ridiculously complicated process that I am honestly glad I don't have to deal with in my current project.