Please don't call me a bot!

There was a furore in Uldah when someone discovered they could craft subligar "SE WHY HAVE YOU GIVEN US SUBLIGAR AGAIN AAAAH"

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

Ok so I was leveling ALC, and needed some aldgoat horns. So I went out as SMN with Garuda and started blowing up lots of goats, tagging them with Ruin 2 and farming loads. Within an hour I was accused of being a bot. I didn't answer the accuser a couple of tells, then he got all I GOT YOU in tell and I blisted him.

Later, still leveling ALC, blue landtrap leaves farming, back on SMN and blowing up the Kedtraps (whilst as a sideline helping miners doing leves round there, it's infested with agro traps)... within an hour I was accused of being a bot. Just because I was better at farming with Ruin 2 and Garuda than he was on a level 25 meleer (sigh).

Blimey stop assuming because someone is *farming* they're a bot!

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That's what I'd say too...IF I WERE A BOT.

SUSPICIOUS.

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Originally Posted by Issac

When I notice someone trying to do a quest, I tag them and let them kill it so they get credit and I get my mats.

Win-win.

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I don't see why more ppl don't do this. If I see someone else attacking a mob I claimed I'm usually guessing they need it for a quest so I go and claim my next target and let them kill. I'm there for the material drops not the I got credit for the mob kill.

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

The guy who spammed me at aldgoats threatened me with a bot report. I'm responding with this thread. Why should I have to justify my actions to someone in game who is being outfarmed?

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and here you are justifying it with a thread

If you think you're going to save Eorzea by grabbing your pitch fork and initiating a witch hunt you're completely wasting your time. Unless botting is stopped on a mass SE level, it won't stop. The only time I saw SE make a dent in XI is when they launched the STF(U) team, they literally destroyed a generation of RMT.

@ Mirabelle, thanks for being paranoid. Like bots would post on the worldwide SE website.

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Originally Posted by KingZeus

and here you are justifying it with a thread

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Of course, bots go public.

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Originally Posted by VitoScaletta

If you think you're going to save Eorzea by grabbing your pitch fork and initiating a witch hunt you're completely wasting your time. Unless botting is stopped on a mass SE level, it won't stop. The only time I saw SE make a dent in XI is when they launched the STF(U) team, they literally destroyed a generation of RMT.

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Where are you, STF?! WE NEED YOU!

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

@ Mirabelle, thanks for being paranoid. Like bots would post on the worldwide SE website.

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lol.

On a completely unrelated note, ever since I submitted my first reply my internet/PC has been super slow. Could be the storm, or could be his bot-ways corrupting my interwebs :O DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNNNNNN (complete sarcasm btw, I don't REALLY think it's the storms doing it) :P

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Originally Posted by VitoScaletta

The only time I saw SE make a dent in XI is when they launched the STF(U) team, they literally destroyed a generation of RMT.

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Didn't SE already launch STF in FFXIV already?

Only person one has to really respond to when out gathering is a GM if contacted by one.

If I was out farming mobs and got a tell from someone like that and they persisted or took it to shout chat, it would be very likely I would fill out one on harassment on them. Gathering without talking to people throwing accusations around is not against the ToS, but harassing/griefing others is. Might want to keep that in mind before trying to deal with suspected botters, as they can flip the tables on you.

I report them all the time when I see them, more often than not it is teleporting gatherers, or ones standing still killing stuff as it gets in range that are going to be the likely botters.

This all sounds like something a bot would say.

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Originally Posted by AngryNixon

This all sounds like something a bot would say.

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On a public forum hosted by SE. Do you even think before you post?

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

Within an hour I was accused of being a bot. I didn't answer the accuser a couple of tells, then he got all I GOT YOU in tell and I blisted him.

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I deliberately ignore pokes and tells all the time. One time I had a joker who offered 24k to do a repair while I was crafting. Just trying to get me to flinch.
People can get pretty desperate to prove a bot, and will waste hours following someone poking waving. I find it amusing and gladly string them along with their fantasy.

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Originally Posted by Altheras

I got the same thing, ironically I was also farming aldgoats for my LWing. I found a nice spot where they respawn quickly, so I was running in a circle mindlessly killing them in mass amounts. I figured I was doing the zone a favor by sticking to one spot since there are lots more aldgoats outside of my little circle that people could still easily use for their own farming or questing needs. Within one hour someone was shouting to zone that I was a bot. -_-

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I've seen a similar thing. Nobody accused me of being a bot but they did get angry at me "stealing all the mobs". As i pointed out to them, there were far far more aldgoat spawn points than i could possibly cover by myself and directed them to where they might find some that were beyond my farming route.

But, folks can be very quick to judge instead of properly studying the layout of the map first...

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Originally Posted by Vix_Spellweaver

I deliberately ignore pokes and tells all the time. One time I had a joker who offered 24k to do a repair while I was crafting. Just trying to get me to flinch.
People can get pretty desperate to prove a bot, and will waste hours following someone poking waving. I find it amusing and gladly string them along with their fantasy.

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i do the same thing honestly. i'll be ignoring their tells and pokes while the whole time laughing at them in voice with my ls/fc.

Guys, I don't need aldgoats anymore for my ALC, so feel free to farm the hell out the ones in drybone and sandgate, pet jobs work best, CNJ or BLM would do well too to (gather together) them into a nukeable space. Feel free to farm the heck out of them and get idiots who can't farm to moan.

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Originally Posted by RyuujinZERO

I've seen a similar thing. Nobody accused me of being a bot but they did get angry at me "stealing all the mobs". ...

But, folks can be very quick to judge instead of properly studying the layout of the map first...

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Lots of people don't realize that, unlike many other MMOs, you don't have to tag the mob yourself to get quest credit, xp, and even quest-related drops from it. You just have to do some damage (around 1/3 to 1/2 of the mob's health, from what I've seen).

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Originally Posted by Sotek

I've posted this before, but this game needs a DoL to replace farming monsters...

Prospect/Triangulate show Mining/Botany locations, a new DoL would have an ability which shows various things like Docile Diremites, or Dead Aldgoats, which you can run up to and harvest Web/Horns/Skin/etc.

Do I want this to avoid the mad competition I face farming Snurble Tufts and Fleeces? Maybe.
Do I want this to avoid getting in the way of people who want to do their Hunting Log/quests/etc? Maybe.

Real reason I want this? So I no longer have to kill sheep. At all. Ever. Seriously. Killing sheep in this game makes me feel... Wrong...

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I've avoided it as much as possible. :x

I'm not going to call you a bot, but I saw something weird as fruck last night.

It was a level 30ish Gladiator in full tank gear between 23-30 running Sashtasha. He'd target one monster in a group and fight it while running in circles around it, not use any hate control abilities and we basically were relying on the second lancer in the group to play flash tank for adds. Luckily She knew what she was doing and we were ok, but it made the whole run take longer than it should. I started to wonder if it was a bot because it would stand still until we targeted something, then it would go after what ever we targeted. It was fighting a mob and when I pulled away to pick an item off the floor it followed me trying to grab the same item. Did this multiple times.

Was creepy as fruck. He even did it to the Ripples in the boss fight.

Well its not gonna take long for me to get accused as I can't see /shouts. In game I am on my FC channel that filters all other crap out. Sick of friggin gil selling spam in shout and yell... I will however get tells.

Anyway I can happily jones about with my pick out for an hour. I find it relaxing :)
(yeah I said PICK !! )