So this is how SE handles bots?

Came across this one yesterday while doing my SMN Hunting Log and reported them. 24 hours later and they are still going strong. I am right now out stealing the mobs. Sad that they are being allowed to continue on with this after 24 hours going at it, then they will flood the markets with the drops. I have reported multiple players from this to harvesting bots and go back the next day and they are still there and sometimes even 2 days later. The miners I reported all had only miner and level 10 monk.

This is their info when I search them
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...psaff53a42.png

Here is a video Looks like autoscript but I have no real clue what that is as I don't play on a PC and someone told me it sounds like that.
http://youtu.be/6GK-w3skHx8

Hmmm they usually do the banning en masse, or at least they notify us usually together with patches and updates.

Square does not care about bots or RMT, they never have and they never will. It is just something that's always going to be a part of the game. You can keep reporting it but they'll never do anything.

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

Square does not care about bots or RMT, they never have and they never will. It is just something that's always going to be a part of the game. You can keep reporting it but they'll never do anything.

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Half of my blacklist is showing (deleted) names, and I black list rmt on sight. I wouldn't be quite sure of that.

Square always bans in masses. It's always been that way.
2.15 is Monday, I bet they ban another 2000 accounts on
top of that.

Please look forward to it!

The do bans in waves and post on the launcher
http://i.imgur.com/oT6U5KB.png

I hope so. I'm kind of tired of reporting only to keep seeing them. Honestly it's to the point I think they should be paying us lol.

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

Square does not care about bots or RMT, they never have and they never will. It is just something that's always going to be a part of the game. You can keep reporting it but they'll never do anything.

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Demonstratively false.

Not like Gil actually matters or is worth anything.

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Originally Posted by Wilan

Half of my blacklist is showing (deleted) names, and I black list rmt on sight. I wouldn't be quite sure of that.

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SE doesn't delete the accounts. There's always a chance it was hacked, so all they do is ban. When you see deleted it means the account holder deleted that character. Lately RMT have begun deleting their own characters and making new ones to get around the blist. Sometimes a character I blisted will be deleted mere minutes later. It was the RMT themselves who did it.

It would be awesome if SE banned bots in a timely manner, but it often takes them weeks to ban even the most obvious of bots (teleporting gathering bots that spawn inside the terrain).

Last ban round they finally got rid of them, but it won't take long for them to come back. I'm actually surprised by how they weren't back yesterday.

Oh Square cares about RMT, botting not so much.

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Originally Posted by Sedant

Oh Square cares about RMT, botting not so much.

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Pretty much this. Those accounts being banned are likely purely RMT related so they get cleaned out regularly. Bots on the other hand? Provided it's not for RMT purposes (like the ones who farm/pvp/exp bot for personal gain in game), they've been able to run free doing their thing since the day the game launched. Sure, SE may ban in waves, but they don't ban them in said waves.

SE handles bots? (Go look at snakemolt in south shroud lol)

I've seen a few bots on my server. There's a couple on Mor Dhona "farming" Lake Cobras. It's obvious too since they stay in 1 place, rotate on an axis, and as soon as a mob spawn they target it instantly (really fast). Also they don't have advanced jobs. Finally, almost all that I see are Arcanist, probably due to carbuncle.

Edit* Like Priya said, yeah there are some at snakemolt farming Lesser Kalongs lol.

even if SE bans them selling 40 slots worth of mats add up to alot of gil quick.
5k a stack x 40 slot = 1 million a day and imagine how many more accounts they have selling & farming. bans mean nothing to them there making big money from all the people buying from them they can just buy or steal new accounts without dipping into there pocket.
i dont bother undercutting i set my price it sells a few days later, im not going to just throw away what im selling.
longer they wait to ban the more damage is done.

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Originally Posted by indira

5k a stack x 40 slot = 1 million a day

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By my calculations, your equation is five times as much as it should be.

Also, it's pointless to ban each bot as it's seen. It's common practice to allow the bots to continue as they often interact with other accounts in terms of transactions. Instead of banning a few individual bots, patience allows SE to gather data to determine a much larger web of connections that are also associated with the account and ban them all at once.

This is nothing new.

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Originally Posted by Aronos

By my calculations, your equation is five times as much as it should be.

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you are correct 200k, dont know what i was thinking.

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Originally Posted by indira

you are correct 200k, dont know what i was thinking.

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lol, I couldn't help my self. Was just funny. :)

But I get your point and it's valid regardless.

If you look you will find your answer and there is also info on housing pricing going down by 50% http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-%28Jan.-9%29

I believe there is SOME monitoring going on albeit not full force. I was mining some nodes for ores and was going back and forth over the same 5 nodes based on respawns. I had created a general path I was following when all of a sudden my chest piece i was wearing changed to another piece in my Armoury. Needless to say, i was like WTF and changed it back to what I originally had on. Seemed like a GM was checking to see if I was actually there or if I was running a bot program. :)

They don't seem to be handling bots too well, server Midgar's shard/crystal market is ran by bot names such as: Cfdszfytwed... (goes longer), Fdjhzdfy..., fdgdr....

Of course I don't know these are bots, but pretty normal guesses would say so.

Also, a guildy and I found some teleporters yesterday around Quarrymill. They would teleport with a goblin (ex:2-4 characters on top of each other and when they turn it would glitch all crazy. Would nearly die each time, but then like 20 seconds after standing still they would poof away, just to teleport back with another goblin to they same coordinate.

O forgot to note they were part of some fdfdf guild (or something along those lines).

Gotta love bots! :p

The other day as I was doing footwork for my BRD relic, I ran past some really suspicious activity in the North Shroud. Tons of Archers leveling together. But they were all acting as if they were on /follow and were even shooting at the same time. I was going to report it to SE...but I didn't think there was enough evidence that they were actually doing anything against the terms, even if it to me it was obvious, so I didn't bother. They were also from the same FC...which I guess I won't post since that'd be a 'witchhunt'.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps70710ae3.png
I'm losing a bit of hope with some of the stuff I see.

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Originally Posted by Wilan

Half of my blacklist is showing (deleted) names, and I black list rmt on sight. I wouldn't be quite sure of that.

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Lol I just wanted to point out that they probably delete their own characters at some point because everyone puts them on ignore.

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Originally Posted by Parodine

The other day as I was doing footwork for my BRD relic, I ran past some really suspicious activity in the North Shroud. Tons of Archers leveling together. But they were all acting as if they were on /follow and were even shooting at the same time. I was going to report it to SE...but I didn't think there was enough evidence that they were actually doing anything against the terms, even if it to me it was obvious, so I didn't bother. They were also from the same FC...which I guess I won't post since that'd be a 'witchhunt'.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps70710ae3.png
I'm losing a bit of hope with some of the stuff I see.

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If it appears to be absentee play you can report it anyway, usually worth a couple of GM /tells if nothing else.
Recently I decided to try something out with my blacklist, a few weeks ago it was pushing 150 names (I delete the (deleted) every once in a while). I wanted to see what would happen if I cleared the list (one because it was getting big and two some hacked accounts were probably returned at this point). So two weeks ago I cleared the list, to date I have added 3 RMT due to /tell advertisements and have seen no shout spam, I'm on for several hours a night at least. Take of this what you will.

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Originally Posted by Parodine

The other day as I was doing footwork for my BRD relic, I ran past some really suspicious activity in the North Shroud. Tons of Archers leveling together. But they were all acting as if they were on /follow and were even shooting at the same time. I was going to report it to SE...but I didn't think there was enough evidence that they were actually doing anything against the terms, even if it to me it was obvious, so I didn't bother. They were also from the same FC...which I guess I won't post since that'd be a 'witchhunt'.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps70710ae3.png
I'm losing a bit of hope with some of the stuff I see.

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Better a false, hoenst intentions report than ignoring a possible bot in my opinion. But to me looks like a power levelling train.

The developers don't care.

They'll "care" when doing so seems conducive to their own goals; ie when combating RMT can be done by making a grind longer, that's got to be modern MMO developers' wet dream.

So yeah this person/bot is still in the exact same spot doing the exact same thing even after reporting them twice. Sorry SE but I will not be reporting anymore.