I think bots in Ul'dah caused a crash

Earlier today on Odin, a bunch of bots were just slowly piling up in Ul'dah

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...41/unknown.png - This is a picture my fiance took a few hours ago. And now when I tried to teleport to Ul'dah for my level 70 miner quest I crashed out (Server side error), at 12:24 am east US time (4:24am server time), there was a queue of over 440 people.

I had a few other friends who were booted from the game as well. Anyone else having this issue?

Also these bots were usually in the same spam FC with gibberish name, and it kind of looked like their bot programs all broke, and they were slowly building up in town.

And upon trying to log back in, I'm met with a 10105 error

Dunno if it was the bots, but they did just post this:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-%28May-6-7%29

People never read news visible on the connection screen and msg system in-game. But these people are superstitious...

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Originally Posted by Naoki34

People never read news visible on the connection screen and msg system in-game. But these people are superstitious...

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I didn't actually see any message in game, since you know... being disconnected makes you not see your chat log. I was just asking about it to see if it was possible that it happened. Went AFK after I went to teleport and got back not too long after and I had DC'd. Nor had I fully exited out to desktop, so I had no reason to open my launcher after I saw I had an error 10105. More so wondering if others had seen the mass amalgamation of bots and was wondering if it may have been part of the cause, since it's kind of weird to see that many bots just out in plain view and them not being hidden under grounds/in buildings.

Nonsense like this is why they really should be banning daily instead of weekly.

The number of bots has exploded ever since world travel opened and having 200+ spots on each server occupied by these guys is a legitimate inconvenience at prime time even if they aren't causing server instability.

There's been a cluster of bots inside the Company Chest, Ul'dah, on multiple worlds on my data centre consistently for the last two weeks now. I've seen them frequently at the aetheryte plaza, the airship landing, various class guildmasters, the tome vendor in Mor Dhona and outside around various low level areas killing mobs in clusters of about 20. It's a joke at this point.

Currently its insane and they have to act...

They are preparing for shadowbringers release xD
Btw if bots are in your range even behind walls or outside of the map teleporting around, your pc/ps4 will render them and this could cause fps drop and culling, if you have no limits set on character limits.
Bots warp freely around the map since day1 in this game