RMTs have evolved... into Arcanists

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...5010e1c7e1.jpg

Just a normal trip to farm some parsley takes a twisted turn, when I see ladybugs fighting invisible enemies. About a half dozen different arcanist bots were hiding underground leveling up. For some reason I saw a few of them jump on occasion, probably to get a tiny bit extra range to pull mobs?

Looks like doing player searches for bots isn't as easy and just looking at BLMs and BRDs anymore. Twelve have mercy on the special task force. Good hunting to all the bot reporters out there, we have new prey to report. Hopefully it isn't a sign of an entirely new RMT company getting ready to grasp at us


Edit : I just did a Player Search for some of the bots, they DID NOT appear under player search function at all. I sent one of them a tell to verify they were online ( they were) and then I copy/pasted their first name into the player search window...NO RESULTS. Either the RMTs have found a way to remove themselves from the function (wish we could do that, avoid RMT tells and invites that way without resorting to /busy) or.....SE has filtered the Player Search for certain...naming conventions... to create an illusion that the problem is smaller than it is

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Originally Posted by HaelseMikiro

Either the RMTs have found a way to remove themselves from the function (wish we could do that, avoid RMT tells and invites that way without resorting to /busy) or.....SE has filtered the Player Search for certain...naming conventions... to create an illusion that the problem is smaller than it is

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Everybody's got a dark secret, and this might just be SE's. The problem is they can deny it until the cows come home, and there's no way for us to prove otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Kikoten

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Originally Posted by HaelseMikiro

Either the RMTs have found a way to remove themselves from the function (wish we could do that, avoid RMT tells and invites that way without resorting to /busy) or.....SE has filtered the Player Search for certain...naming conventions... to create an illusion that the problem is smaller than it is

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Everybody's got a dark secret, and this might just be SE's. The problem is they can deny it until the cows come home, and there's no way for us to prove otherwise.

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it could also be that the RMT botters took the extra effort to set their player search language to something of the minority in your server, something you wouldn't normally search for specifically

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Originally Posted by Astyrah

it could also be that the RMT botters took the extra effort to set their player search language to something of the minority in your server, something you wouldn't normally search for specifically

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Nah, I thought of that prior to doing the first player search and had it set for J E D and F. Unless there's additional language options on other clients, and those clients aren't restricted to their own data centers. Then I'd have to give the RMTs a whole 'nother cookie if they're actually using CN clients to bot on NA/EU/JP servers

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if that's the case then it gives you more reasons to report them then! that's breaking multiple things in the ToS

I really don't like this. Could you imagine a new player coming up to an enemy to complete a quest objective, only to find the enemies dying in front of them? That would be so annoying, and extremely creepy.