Hacking teleporting gatherers

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Originally Posted by zproximo

How are people teleporting from node to node while in stealth mode? Most of them I see are in level 1-10 gear but much higher in level.

Is this an intended way to work? Or is this hacking?

When they teleport onto a node they fall from the sky it looks like. They won't respond to tells either.

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This is hacking and they are using 3rd party software to do it. They will not respond to tells because most of them are probably Chinese/Japanese and do not understand English, OR, they know what they are doing is wrong so they avoid talking to anyone to avoid being questioned.

Since I have played other games where gold farmers/hackers persisted, I suspect if you say "Ni Hao" to them, they MIGHT reply :)

Please fix this botting issue.. I hate trying to mine and seeing all of these guys just teleporting back and forth.. It's so discouraging..:mad:

SE can use their logs to map the flow of goods and gil from player to player.

When they find out who they all are, they can come down in one fell swoop and take out a few thousand with perma bans. As they go through it all, they need to ID the payment accounts as well to insure they ban the source of payment.

All in all, it cant stop all of it forever, but they can make it much much more costly for anyone running a business selling gold to NEWB's.

I don't understand why they don't have people playing the game and looking for these bots. They are incredibly obvious and I could have banned at least 50 by now. If nothing's being done about the obvious gil spammers though I doubt these bots will be dealt with.

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Originally Posted by storied_hero

I don't understand why they don't have people playing the game and looking for these bots. They are incredibly obvious and I could have banned at least 50 by now. If nothing's being done about the obvious gil spammers though I doubt these bots will be dealt with.

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They do see the bots. They don't ban them because then they lose the money trail that leads them back to the accounts that are being used to hold/transfer the gil.

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Originally Posted by saucyshortcake

They do see the bots. They don't ban them because then they lose the money trail that leads them back to the accounts that are being used to hold/transfer the gil.

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I can understand that I guess but half of the bots I see are regular players in known free companies.

Wow.

I reported this AM, and they took action this PM.

SE might just pull it off!

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Originally Posted by Yoseph

Wow.

I reported this AM, and they took action this PM.

SE might just pull it off!

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Bots I've reported are still there, and have been there for several days. It's pretty bad when you can walk outside a town an recognize a bot's name more quickly as you ride past than someone in your own FC.

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Originally Posted by FF2GO

This is hacking and they are using 3rd party software to do it. They will not respond to tells because most of them are probably Chinese/Japanese and do not understand English, OR, they know what they are doing is wrong so they avoid talking to anyone to avoid being questioned.

Since I have played other games where gold farmers/hackers persisted, I suspect if you say "Ni Hao" to them, they MIGHT reply :)

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This bugs me so much. Sure a lot of the RMT are Chinese but most of us (Japanese) don't like any 3rd party. From playing 11 for 8 years and playing with Japanese and English speakers alike. More English speakers use hacks then Japanese.

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Originally Posted by Maku

This bugs me so much. Sure a lot of the RMT are Chinese but most of us (Japanese) don't like any 3rd party. From playing 11 for 8 years and playing with Japanese and English speakers alike. More English speakers use hacks then Japanese.

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A lot of folks in NA lump Asian cultures together. I've personally never heard of JP RMT (other than maybe translators). Such is life. I will say, though, on my FFXI server (carbuncle) there was a JP programmer that would make his own hacks to get claim on HNMs. That's a different class of hacking from botting/RMT though.