Invisible Bots on Zalera

[I'll preface this by saying I'm sure there's better places to report this kind of thing, but I personally believed GD would be more effective due to traffic. Also, I did not see any other thread about this topic during my (admittedly brief) search.]

I was playing around with a new character on Zalera (challenging myself to max all classes/job as well as complete all achievements). While I was mining right outside of Ul'Dah, I noticed that an invisible entity had been mining rather quickly. Initially, I had chalked it up to lag or something of the sort.

However, as I kept mining, I noticed it was still going on and began observing the activity. Very clearly, we (at least Zalera) has invisible bots going around gathering materials at a rapid pace as a supplement to RMT activity.

This is a very worrying situation and needs to be taken care of as soon as possible.

Click here to see the video I recorded of the bot activity.

During the video, you can see me trying to target a bot whose name happened to become visible. Twice, to no avail. It may be due to a fault in tab-targeting, but if they cannot be targeted, that adds another worrying piece to the puzzle.

I hate to tell you this, but these bots have been going for weeks now on Balmung and nothing's been done about them.

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Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

I hate to tell you this, but these bots have been going for weeks now on Balmung and nothing's been done about them.

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All the more reason for people to speak up, right?

I've reported a few myself, even teleport miners (as soon as the animation to put up the tool they disappear and instantly appear at the next node) and reported them as well, I just hope they do get rid of those botters.

ihave reported and gave info to gm that is an activity of teleport Gathering bots in this area and that they are Invisible so can't see who they are unless they level up., Gave them cordinate and more info 2 days later they where are all gone.

So report them and they will be gone. If no reports they will be there farming nonstop.

But there is another type of bot programs that I added noticed and may be harder to notice.
Put some use a bot program that can run around and amass gathering any amount undisturbed.
And these bots are still around and rarely reported cuz they looks like normal player same kinda behaviour just they dont responding and they walking very wierd.

I saw a player and no rmt, but level 15 and then level 30 at the same place a few days later and next day shouted for wp speedruns.

I think they should add somewhat anti-bot system soon... ihate cheaters.

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

ihave reported and gave info to gm that is an activity of teleport Gathering bots in this area and that they are Invisible so can't see who they are unless they level up., Gave them cordinate and more info 2 days later they where are all gone.

So report them and they will be gone. If no reports they will be there farming nonstop.

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Yeah, I made sure to report as well. Did so before I began recording. I encourage everyone else who notices this kind of thing going on to do the same.