Botter doing the extreme.

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10-14-2013, 11:08 PM
LordSideKicks

Botter doing the extreme.

Yesterday at Behemoth server, Black Brush Station saw a whole bunch of characters on chocobos spawn on top of each other next to the Delivery Moogle then bee line their way to the Fate on the north east. They have 2 different FC and I check their FC only consist of 6 members.

Anybody noticed this type of bot zerg on their server?
10-14-2013, 11:17 PM
Rhas

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Originally Posted by LordSideKicks

Yesterday at Behemoth server, Black Brush Station saw a whole bunch of characters on chocobos spawn on top of each other next to the Delivery Moogle then bee line their way to the Fate on the north east. They have 2 different FC and I check their FC only consist of 6 members.

Anybody noticed this type of bot zerg on their server?

Umm.. Fate party and group teleport? You do realize you can keep the teleport window up forever by simply moving it out of the way until you want to use it when in a party, right? That means you should be able to mount your choco after you receive the teleport request and.. well.. teleport on your mount maybe?
10-14-2013, 11:25 PM
LordSideKicks

The thing is they did not spawn next to the crystal. And the fact they bee line together. They did not jump over the fence but got out through the gate in a strqight line. Yes you can say they use follow but for 12 ppl to coordinate pressing follow the sec they teleported? They muz be doing this for a long long time.
10-14-2013, 11:29 PM
LordSideKicks

1 more thing show me teleporting on chocobo.
10-14-2013, 11:33 PM
Doki

Combating bots, or people you THINK might be bots is a sisyphean task not ever worth the trouble. Design a better mousetrap and someone will design a better mouse. Just give up.
10-14-2013, 11:38 PM
LordSideKicks

So instead of controlling the population of the rats. We should just let them breed?
10-14-2013, 11:51 PM
Rhas

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Originally Posted by LordSideKicks

1 more thing show me teleporting on chocobo.

I have teleported on my mount in the same way I have described in my previous post. Maybe you should try it.

Is it really so hard to believe that you can't coordinate either via a voice chat program or even in /party? Maybe that groups been grinding for 2 - 3 hours before you saw them and have their stuff down. You can't just assume.
10-15-2013, 12:01 AM
LordSideKicks

Dude you mad? I am on my mount right now and I can't press return or teleport key!
10-15-2013, 12:14 AM
Dyrstahl

Extreeeeme. Extreeeeeeeeeeme.
- Tak Fujii 2010
10-15-2013, 12:25 AM
KenshinHimura

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Originally Posted by LordSideKicks

Dude you mad? I am on my mount right now and I can't press return or teleport key!

Read before you respond!
He said party member ported you are asked if you want to be ported too but you ignore that and use chocobo then on chocobo you decide to accept the port after all.
10-15-2013, 12:28 AM
LordSideKicks

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Originally Posted by KenshinHimura

Read before you respond!
He said party member ported you are asked if you want to be ported too but you ignore that and use chocobo then on chocobo you decide to accept the port after all.

Read my post on they spawn next to delivery moogle not next to crystal. Duh.
10-15-2013, 01:03 AM
KenshinHimura

Dude you asked why can't you choose port or return on chocobo and I just pointed you that and you answer about the botters lol
10-15-2013, 01:08 AM
kimoi

Oh man, with the ridiculous inability to hide your headpiece on connected armor, I can't tell who's arguing with who in this thread.
10-15-2013, 01:16 AM
Amenian

Even if it's possible to accept a teleport a party member did while on chocobo, the person who initially teleported would not have been able to do so. That means at least one person would not have been on a chocobo. Doesn't sound like that's the case here. Additionally, they would have spawned next to the crystal like OP says, and apparently they did not. These are either botters or OP was experiencing some major lag. It's definitely not a teleport. Use some deductive reasoning here. Sheesh.
10-15-2013, 01:39 AM
ParanoidHobo

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Originally Posted by kimoi

Oh man, with the ridiculous inability to hide your headpiece on connected armor, I can't tell who's arguing with who in this thread.

I was just thinking that as I hit your post :/

Vanity needs to hit sooner rather than later just we're not all the same hat talking to each other on the forums -_-

edit: This post just reminded me of something stupid I saw yesterday which is probably at least sort of related to the OP and bots. I saw what appeared to be a bot fountain. Was catching up on miner quests when I noticed the sound of feet shuffling while talking to an npc. I look over his shoulder and see several identical hyur male gladiators with Fhgwgads type names falling out of the wall behind the blind the npc is leaning on. They'd vanish after maybe 5 seconds or so but there's so many cycling through there'd still be a pile of about 4-6 of them at a time. I have no idea what they're doing, I would guess they're teleporting around doing quests to level to whatever point you have to be to start being a menace to online society. They were also appearing and quickly disappearing near Wymond as well.
10-15-2013, 02:34 AM
Dyrstahl

^ Bye I guess?
10-15-2013, 03:35 PM
lokust4

This thread is reminiscent of a lynch movie.
10-15-2013, 03:47 PM
vpc

Actually this guy is telling the truth, watched people do it on Lamia from my boyfriend's computer. All from the same FC who were teleporting DIRECTLY to the fates while mounted..not to a town, to the fate that had just spawned. There were 4 of them all mounted and on auto-follow. Was interesting to watch...lol
10-15-2013, 03:57 PM
Ecks007

I'm sure they are working their way up to this on Diabolos. I have not leveled any lower level classes out in the fields lately to check, however I was on one of my alts a few days ago and noticed a disturbing scene. Tons of RMT teleporting around from quest NPC to quest NPC in Ul'Dah.

You could tell they were RMT due to the names like Sasdfss Dffssafd and the blatant fact they were TELEPORTING around. This is apparently one of the ways they gather their gil to sell to other players, mass zerging the starting zone quests repeatedly. Here's hoping tonight's maintenance also does something about this blatant abuse of the game.
10-15-2013, 04:03 PM
Veronica

The hacks that are out are pretty crazy for this game atm, but they hacks are so obvious that I wouldn't be surprised if SE mass banned them soon. Also, there are bots teleporting between gathering spots, there are probably teleport bots out for fates too.
10-15-2013, 04:13 PM
Ksenia

I kind of gave up on some of the Nancy Drew minds in this game when some guy started trying to trade with me while farming Apkallu for the Eggs.

33 Conjurer killing 30 Apkallu in one spot, unable to keep up to three spawns and when I sent him a tell, he accused me of being a bot.

I didn't know at the time these white knight warriors try and break bots by spamming trade and yet even with the obvious crutch and me sending him tells, he had decided I was a bot.

An ATK bot that sends tells and farms mobs for eggs 3 levels below me with a healer but he had decided.

Yea....
10-15-2013, 04:17 PM
FayaAOP

There are a few generations of bots right now on the servers.
You have the "attack everything in a front arc" old bot, V1
You have the "attack everything in range" better V2
You have the "Port to everything in range and attack/harvest" which i think is the V3
Then comes what the OP stated, bbbbots doing quests/fates, advanced V4

So far i had a counter to kill bots, which was opening trade when they have agro. Bot dies. If it is a V1-3 it will stay dead until operator checks on it. If it is V4 it will auto respawn in the area it was stationated and continue what it was doing after around 5 minutes.
Sadly now the V1-3s or some of them are using an ingame mechanic to make them immune to be traded to, effectivly making them invulnerable.

I sometimes wonder, why not everyone is botting? Would make it even again.
10-15-2013, 04:26 PM
Animation

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Originally Posted by LordSideKicks

1 more thing show me teleporting on chocobo.

I've done it on Magitek gear, I think it was pure luck on how I hit it, but the armour just slid across the ground and I moved at running pace.
10-15-2013, 04:34 PM
Slambo

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Originally Posted by Kitya

Nottttt a good idea to actually go to bot websites, tell people to google them, google them yourselves. Naming bots is a good way to get a forum ban and going to their websites is a great way to get a keylogger. :P

No reason to go to the websites. Just check out youtube.
10-15-2013, 05:07 PM
Melithea

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Originally Posted by Doki

Combating bots, or people you THINK might be bots is a sisyphean task not ever worth the trouble. Design a better mousetrap and someone will design a better mouse. Just give up.

I won't tolerate the insult of crappy "mice". If I spot an obvious bot while gathering, or a spammer FLOODS my chat window while I'm still entering an area, I will do everything in my power to inconvenience them. Let them go through the trouble of signing up for a new account and tweaking the program to last a little longer before they get banned again. They are ruining the game, I'm going to make them work to do it.

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Originally Posted by Veronica

The hacks that are out are pretty crazy for this game atm, but they hacks are so obvious that I wouldn't be surprised if SE mass banned them soon. Also, there are bots teleporting between gathering spots, there are probably teleport bots out for fates too.

There is a straight up infestation of teleporting, Lalafell gather bots around Ul'dah on my server. They actually teleport INSIDE the rock, which makes them impossible to target and difficult to see the name unless you look at them from just the right angle.