Twintania is overrun with bots :(

Hi there,

I'm a new player to FFXIV, and I seriously thought I wouldn't see this amount of bots in a subscription based MMO.
I've started my adventure in Twintania cuz of the new server perks.

But everywhere i go i see wolf packs of bots ruining my gameplay.
They either kill the monsters with 20+ thaumaturges in 1 spot casting fireballs that i'm trying to hunt for my log or quest.

And the weird thing is that they dissapear and appear nonstop with a army as if they teleport into spots.

Is something being done about this?

Kind Regards,
Legendary King

For some reason, I thought you were talking about the dancing plague trial.

Don't get your hopes up about SE doing anything about it either. They ban in waves which happen once in a blue moon and by the time they've got round to a second ban wave the bots are already back at 50 and farming gil. The player used bots aka DoL bots never get banned, there's an FC of about 16 of them on Odin and I've been reporting them for months and no action has been taken.

Square likes to ban the ones with random letters for names in waves. That said that is pretty much all they do. I've seen the same bots farming Aethersands for 2+ years 24/7 non-stop. There are also crafting bots and market board bots that will craft 24/7 and then will lower the prices to be the lowest one every 15 to 30 minutes on the dot. Those ones never seem to get banned.

I mean offcourse it's no easy feat to ban bots, but they can adjust their anti-cheat system to search for certain parameters that bot tools use and ban them instantly upon that.

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Originally Posted by Machi_Machiavelli

For some reason, I thought you were talking about the dancing plague trial.

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Hahaha! Me too... I thought "Dang, those are some advanced bots!"

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Originally Posted by LegendaryKing

I mean offcourse it's no easy feat to ban bots, but they can adjust their anti-cheat system to search for certain parameters that bot tools use and ban them instantly upon that.

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Can't, programs like that have gotten extremely sophisticated. Most of the people they are banning are using crappy programs or doing RMT. The real stuff is indistinguishable from normal keystrokes. They'd have to watch things no system is tuned to do, like watching for commonly taken paths, like monitoring, if a number of people walk to the same path the same point and stand in the same position. And with that, they run the risk of banning innocent people.

They've invading other realms too, I've started seeing Twintania RMT bots spamming on Zodiark.

There's a lot on Balmung lately as well. Many of them are currently running around Limsa.

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Originally Posted by Final-Fantasy

I find it strange that on Twintania for example, the same Bot has been /shout advertising for days, they must require a huge amount of <right click reports> or it does not work at all.

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I find that weird also, cuz i report every single one i see instantly