HACK - Botters teleporting, gil flooding market, SE Fix ASAP!

This is your most pressing issue right now. The chinese gil sellers are running thousands of bots right now teleporting all over the place and not taking damage. They are dumping gil into the economy and the inflation is already starting. I would estimate a billion + isk is dumped into the market everday across all servers from these bots. Its plain to see, they are just popping up all over the place under ground. Complaints are coming up all over the web, I would hope you address this quick before your game economy is so jacked up everyone is forced to buy gil or quit playing!!!

We have all seen this same story unfold to many times.... Please for the sake of your players fix this immediately, do not back burner this issue, its very serious.

http://i.imgur.com/I89Pt7c.jpg heres one hanging out under ground...

And how, pray tell, are they "dumping gil into the economy"? Mind you, I agree that the botting and teleport hacks are getting out of control (if they ever were under control), but the botters aren't dumping anything into the economy. They farm shards, which they then sell to players on the market board. That's not dumping gil into economy, that's removing it (with market taxes).


Edit: Also, I'm curious what you are exactly basing this estimate on? I'm pretty sure no ISK is being dumped anywhere, seeing as that's the currency of EVE Online...

On Hyperion they have control of the Fleece/Tuffs market

Bots are standing in the middle of mobs on Thurm. with out a GC or FC and crap gear, claiming sheep as they pop with Scathe, then killing with Blizzard (no mp loss) I tried trading with one to interrupt it, but it didn't work.

They didn't do anything about them in 1.0, what makes you think they are going to do something this time around? I use to report them day after day after day, one time for a week. They would bot shards upstairs at malestrom hq. They were still there weeks later, botting away....

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Originally Posted by OrionInerghem

On Hyperion they have control of the Fleece/Tuffs market

Bots are standing in the middle of mobs on Thurm. with out a GC or FC and crap gear, claiming sheep as they pop with Scathe, then killing with Blizzard (no mp loss) I tried trading with one to interrupt it, but it didn't work.

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im often out there outclaiming the bots on BLM w/ scathe but they have gotten smarter/better bots now and trading them isnt always working now as some have script to bypass it

There's quite the list of pressing issues right now at SE HQ.

At the moment, stabilizing and purchasing servers upwards of 50,000 dollars and hiring a team that can handle managing it is priority one.

This will be resolved, but you need to realize that this isn't the biggest problem facing the game at the moment, and it will be handled eventually.

These extreme words and calculations you use veer people into the wrong direction and create an angry, inflamed community. I recommend you chill out and enjoy what the game has to offer.

You don't think them dumping who knows how many 1 gil items to vendors injects gil into a server? I doubt they are vendoring the shards now seeing as they are offering them for cash now too. Not to mention grabbing nothing but allagan peices from the quests along the way to getting a fresh bot going.

I was with one on Hyperion farming fleece, he was an Arcanist and he teleport from sheep to sheep casting bio to insta claim. If you manage to kill it he will return and go back to do the same. His name was Zozoka Zoka or something like that and was in a FC call Scuare Enix <SE> (the irony).

I would agree with the OP that something needs to be done with this asap. I finally talked one of my longtime MMO friends into playing FF14 because it's so fun. They logged into Uld and was instantly bombarded with Gil spam. Being new to the game they did not know how the Blacklist function worked and after a few minutes they quit.

Part of the Gil spam problem a) makes SE look incompetent because they seem to not be able to stop the constant spamming/hacking and b) worse is also makes them look apathetic to the issue because there has been no new statements with direct communication from the Devs on combating this problem. When you report them you get a generic message response and the same people continue for hours if not days.

Some open dialogue about these hacks and spammers and what they plan on doing about it would make players like my friend who quit consider coming back to the game because there really is something being done about it.

...and WTF makes you think they are "Chinese"?