PvP Botting

PvP botting. The number of bots steadily has been growing day by day. Please take time out to report these bots. Primarily the bots have been in tank classes, but I have seen a few botters in other classes as well. They ruin the experience for everyone.

Depends on your server cluster probably. In my grouping we have 2 that have lately been queuing up as healer every time. The one was a bard for a while but I guess he felt like he wasn't detrimental enough to the team he just had to make it worse.

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Originally Posted by Gabbelgak

Depends on your server cluster probably. In my grouping we have 2 that have lately been queuing up as healer every time. The one was a bard for a while but I guess he felt like he wasn't detrimental enough to the team he just had to make it worse.

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I've seen this a ton with healers. How do you report someone?

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Originally Posted by Jennero

I've seen this a ton with healers. How do you report someone?

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I did it in-game, but they also said to report it to this site:

http://support.na.square-enix.com

from there, go to FFXIV > Report Bugs or Offending Players

I think everyone has been reporting them..but it kinda seems useless at this point. When shits so obvious the other teams tank is floating above you in your base before the match starts..its like really?

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Originally Posted by Kialai

I think everyone has been reporting them..but it kinda seems useless at this point. When shits so obvious the other teams tank is floating above you in your base before the match starts..its like really?

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Yeah.. this. Been seeing the same bot ( 2 healers, and 2 tanks I usually see in Primal datacenter). I'v just given up...Been reporting them since a while back and they're STILL there. Thank you SE, for not doing shit.

I just started doing PvP as a whm and let me tell you it ain't fun. I get creamed before I can cast a single spell. PvP is still very unbalanced to say the least. But removing botters is important too so maybe someone could enlighten me what to look for to spot a bot? I'll report them right away. Oh and you guys know that SE take these "disciplinary actions" in spurts. They don't ban players one at a time. They get rid of thousands of ppl at the same time. So I bet that after the next SE mop-up they'll have removed the bots you've reported.

Why isn't SE doing anything about bots?

You'd think they'd multi-box. Faster queues. Faster losses. And, no one would complain. Perhaps we should just pool our money together and get these botters more accounts, so long as they roll in a full party.

Botters are pretty easy to spot.

They stay in the base and blow all of their cooldowns/buffs. They'll do stuff, provided an enemy is within range. They just won't do it well.

One of them on our data center is called Comfort Luvbunny or something like that. I've only ever seen them on the other team, though, as it plays a healing class these days. It used to be a bard though.

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Originally Posted by Ymbryne

Botters are pretty easy to spot.

They stay in the base and blow all of their cooldowns/buffs. They'll do stuff, provided an enemy is within range. They just won't do it well.

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We also have ones that leave base to as tanks. They also do decent.

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Originally Posted by Ymbryne

Botters are pretty easy to spot.

They stay in the base and blow all of their cooldowns/buffs. They'll do stuff, provided an enemy is within range. They just won't do it well.

One of them on our data center is called Comfort Luvbunny or something like that. I've only ever seen them on the other team, though, as it plays a healing class these days. It used to be a bard though.

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Comfort Luvbunny and Blade Montana are the healer bots I see often on Primal. If there's non-healer bots I can't discern them from really bad players because they don't do anything terribly obvious.

But yeah they've been reported countless times by myself and others yet they're still there in 40s and even 50s now. I can't queue solo during certain times of the day because I'll just end up waiting 20 minutes for this nonsense.

EDIT: I will not name names, but there are two well-known Hyperion botters that bot PvP as healers in PRIMAL dutyfinder. They're also farming bots. It's one person. He bots fleece in Coerthas among other items. He occasionally comes to the keyboard, where he says horrible things to everyone around him. He claims he has been reported over 6,700 times, and that the GMs are cool with him because all he has to do is deny that he is using 3rd party software. His software moves his characters around in a very bot-like manner, slowly rotating and walking instead of running, but no one can ever outclaim his bots on sheep. We generally think he's manning his multicomputer workstation most of the time, which is why he has not yet been banned. But he has proven his contempt for fellow players time and again, trash talking people, spamming emotes, shouts, stealing camps, general childishness. It has culminated in this new PvP botting, which... has surprised no one from Hyperion.

Both of his bots PvP on Scholar. His software turns his characters around the other direction and spams Summon and Protect, over, and over, and over. He makes zero effort to place his fingers on the keyboard to help cure. And thus the battle ends quickly. If you're lucky, you'll get some of his patented harassment before his software queues him up for another go at it.

What this does for other players: his teammates are guaranteed a 100% loss chance, and his opponents a 100% win chance. We just abandon duty and get locked out of PvP for half an hour. It's ruining the experience and needs to be addressed ASAP. If there are no rules against this sort of behavior (botting, harassment, exploitation), then there need to be rules ASAP.

Furthermore, if you confront him, and he's actually at his keyboard, he will say, "I'm reporting you for harassment. The GMs are my buddies, they don't care what I do, but they will ban you."

If that's true... wow.