How bad are gilfarmer/botters on your server?

Urth's Gift, the entry tunnel with the bats are a very popular gilfarmer location on Gilgamesh, I always see the same Bard level 50 with a ridiculous name ( in an FC of 1) farming Lesser Kalong's with spiritbond crafting gear and an i70 HQ bow. This gilfarmer/botter just spins around and whenever his character model is in front of another target it attacks. Practically here 24/7 except occasionally I see in Limsa at the summoning bell with 6 of the same geared people.

I reported this and urged others to do as well (who knows if anyone is actually reporting this). But, this is a flashback of my FFXI days when on Carbuncle server we had the wave of gilfarmer/botters named Exta-z . Am I the only one who is completely angry about this sort of thing that it doesn't seem enough GMs are taking actions on what I see as quite obvious gilfarming/RMT.

Ragnarok used to be bad, but it's really changed.
At one point I often saw 6 archers/bards trading to one person at the Ul'Dah crystal, all in same gear with head-to-keyboard names and a lot of tells.
Now, I get at most 2 tells a week, sometimes no tells for weeks.

No idea why they left ragnarok but are enmass on other servers, perhaps because they didn't sell any gil there?

There's a whole FC of them, yes.. they have a FC on my server. For at least one group of them. They like to hang out in North Shroud where the Smells Like Tree Spirit fate pops and aoe the plasmoids there.. for some reason. That's all they do.

I was also in Ul'Dah doing some crafter stuff and saw 2-3 different groups of 4 man parties of nothing but Blms phase in and out (constant dungeon running) right in front of the market board. They all had obvious rmt names, all wore complete Myth gear and had the same crafted HQ staves.

I seem to be receiving more rmt /tells than usual, even during times that are normally quiet for me. It's really annoying to continuously Blacklist them.

Cactuar seems bearable. I get quite a few goldspam tells per day, but they usually stop after 1 tell per character, so I don't even have to blacklist them anymore. I don't run into a whole lot of bots, but then again, I don't run around a whole lot in the open world. It definitely was worse in the past than it is today.

I usually get 1 tell a day on Zodiark, although I'm often in instances so that might be something to do with it. Had a couple in dungeons through DF too.

Gil sellers are brazen on Hyperion, bots too, but botters don't try to distract the players. I get 3 to 5 tells per hour

I think Gil sellers are so rampant on Hyperion because GMs have conditioned players there to not communicate with them. If you have a problem on Hyperion, contacting a GM 99% does nothing. GMs do not communicate back or fix anything. The 1 time I did get a message from a GM, I got mail saying I was not ingame for them to talk to me. The message was mailed at 3AM on a Monday.

I get occasional RMT tells, but not much else. I don't think I've ever spotted a botter, though I may just be blind.

Adamantoise is one of the smaller NA servers, so it's not terribly a surprise.

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Originally Posted by Bucy

I think Gil sellers are so rampant on Hyperion because GMs have conditioned players there to not communicate with them. If you have a problem on Hyperion, contacting a GM 99% does nothing. GMs do not communicate back or fix anything. The 1 time I did get a message from a GM, I got mail saying I was not ingame for them to talk to me. The message was mailed at 3AM on a Monday.

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Really? This is awful... I also did a in game report on a bunch of farmer/botters in the South Shroud example, I just don't know why more isn't done about these people who blatantly farm and bot in the open world, ESPECIALLY when their using obvious botting names and all wearing the same gear.

When you enter a zone on Hyperion, there is often a pack of 5 to 20 RMT bots just standing at the zone-in in the same gear; same bots standing there for weeks or months, messaging people relentlessly. Either Hyperion GMs are very inactive or they are undermanned.

My blacklist is full! I mean all of them are gilsellers - 200/200, and when i get another that normaly tries to whisper me more times, I have to take off one of the blacklist before I can black list.

On the other side I have seen a group of i think elzen bots whms once, and few times in little alamigho a group of lalaBLMs (all just standing and all in the same gear)

Ragnarok seems to be a nice place lately. I get a few GIL sellers shouts but that's it. I sometimes see a few characters mining where I am unsure whether they are bots or not but that's it. I do not see bots camping Urth's Gift or hunting for Fleece 24/7 anymore. They used to be there for a long time but it is no longer like this. When I compare the situation we now have with what it was like when I started the Game, I see a lot of improvements.

We have several on midgard that use the same spot in Urth's gift. I stopped reporting them. Nothing ever happens.

It's actually way easy to find bots on Atomos server, just do a blank player search for everyone running the EN client. The list is FULL of bots. WTH are they even doing there? The EN community on Atomos is tiny. No one cares to buy from them!

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Originally Posted by Ecks007

There's a whole FC of them, yes.. they have a FC on my server. For at least one group of them. They like to hang out in North Shroud where the Smells Like Tree Spirit fate pops and aoe the plasmoids there.. for some reason. .

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Same on pheonix, same spot, except these are bards, that stay on a ledge so nothing else can agro, is odd
Reported a lot, still there two months later

In Sargatanas, I saw a bunch of Hyurs standing at the Atheryte plaza in Ul'dah and all they do is enter a queue and exit fast of it, and repeat. And they are often AFK all together there too.

and now they also group up at that cave in Coerthas to spiritbond gear 'peacefully', not to mention one of their members is a goldsmith that crafts them stuff inbetween their SBing hanging out at that spot.

That is why I run around on /busy almost 24/7. I got sick of the spam tells. Now I don't worry about it at all. I will state this again the bots are not the problem its the people buying the gil that are the problem. They need to go on mass banning of gil buyers. No clients = No business.

They aren't bad at all! In fact, a bunch of them have sent me friend requests lately and now I have a bunch of new friends!
/sarcasm

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Originally Posted by Kisshu

Ragnarok used to be bad, but it's really changed.
At one point I often saw 6 archers/bards trading to one person at the Ul'Dah crystal, all in same gear with head-to-keyboard names and a lot of tells.
Now, I get at most 2 tells a week, sometimes no tells for weeks.

No idea why they left ragnarok but are enmass on other servers, perhaps because they didn't sell any gil there?

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I'm really wondering if they just cut down on gilfarming on the EU datacenter. You still see bots on Phoenix too, but I never see them farming mobs and most of the crystal farmers are gone. What I do see is what appears to be them farming instances.

We seem to be doing okay on Faerie. Tells aren't too bad (I've only ever had the friend request-tell combo once), maybe 3-4 when you port into a town, but otherwise pretty quiet. I've only seen one person I definitely thought was botting, lv 50 mining right next to Ul'Dah in all lv 1 crafting clothes.

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Originally Posted by Gilthas

I'm really wondering if they just cut down on gilfarming on the EU datacenter. You still see bots on Phoenix too, but I never see them farming mobs and most of the crystal farmers are gone. What I do see is what appears to be them farming instances.

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To check in fell guard where the plasmoid mobs are, bard bots there 24/7 up on a ledge on pheonix

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Originally Posted by Gerolan

To check in fell guard where the plasmoid mobs are, bard bots there 24/7 up on a ledge on pheonix

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I've been doing the Ixali beastmen quests every day and never see anyone killing the plasmoid mobs. I imagine that it's possible that they're not there 24/7.

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Originally Posted by Gilthas

I've been doing the Ixali beastmen quests every day and never see anyone killing the plasmoid mobs. I imagine that it's possible that they're not there 24/7.

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Considering I'm not only one who's reported them and they've become a running joke in two LSs both of which have 128 people, pretty sure they have been seen at a lot of other times

Bad. Tells within a minute of logging in to an inn room, every day. Tells within a minute of switching zones, every day. Market prices are all over the place.

Buyers need to be made an example of and a high profile ban campaign implemented - no demand, no supply.