Alert: Spirit Bonding Bots in Urth's Gift

So tonight we were wondering around South Shroud and ran into a bot spirit bonding in Urth's Gift. It was a Paladin in full Crafted i55 gear, Animus Curtana, Novus Shield with a LV 10 Chocobo who stood in one spot spamming Stoneskin every 5 seconds, then proceeded to attack anything that moved in melee range with Halone combo. If a mob was hit and pulled out of range it would not move or give chase, and would resume attacking if it was brought closer. Bringing multiple mobs it would only attack what was in front it, but would switch to the other mob if the first was pulled away. Trading it would interrupt its rotation of Stoneskin and Halone, and it wouldn't move even if it was being hit and couldn't attack, nor would it cancel the trade.

Has anyone else seen this on their servers?

I haven't but let's just get the dude banned :)

There's a team of summoners on adamantoise that have been killing Golden Fleece in E. Than for the past several months. They're all in the "uuuuuuu" FC
I've reported them each and every time I see them but no dice.

That sounds more like a player running a bot than a gil farmer running a bot. But still a bot, none the less.

Please add this info to this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...pen-world-Bots.
Only way to get open world bots looked into is to get the Forum CM's to alert the devs to make the Game Surveillance Unit actually do their job and start banning them.
GM's don't want to know about it.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

There's a team of summoners on adamantoise that have been killing Golden Fleece in E. Than for the past several months. They're all in the "uuuuuuu" FC
I've reported them each and every time I see them but no dice.

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Almost the same on Moogle, the FC name is different and they are BLMs though.

The fact that it's a relic'd job means it's very unlikely to be RMT.

It's probably a character that has set up a 3rd party program to engage a macro every x seconds. This is against the ToS, but it's only provable if he has actually left his PC and is unable to respond.

It's possible he has a macro set up along the lines of "Cycle target left, Rage of Halone combo, Stoneskin" or whatever and is pressing the corresponding button on his controller every 30 secs or so while watching TV. This isn't against TOS.

The only way SE can determine if he's a bot or not is sending him a /tell. If he responds, there's nothing much they can do as he can prove he was at his PC while doing this.

I have a one-touch fishing macro set up for pretty much the same purpose. When my controller lights up, I press a button. 30 secs or so later the controller lights up and I press it again while watching TV.

I have the sound all silent apart from /tell alerts. So I know if someone wants to speak to me.

I'll just repost this from the thread mentioned above:

I'm also TOTALLY fed up by seeing same bots month by month on the same spots after hundreds of reports made about them :(

The problem is that "reporting" in game or here in Forums is pretty much useless - the best / most "direct" way to contact the special unit (GSU) dealing with RMT, cheaters and boters is actually via Lodestone - second part of the screen. If you still have a bit of faith and effort left please try to report them there as well - hopefully increased amount reports there will trigger finally some more firm actions ...

Does anyone actually know someone who got banned for botting/gil buying?

If you ask me, SE cares more about their sub. No profit for them to ban them.

Remember boys and girls, if you spot a bot and they're currently engaged in combat... Open trade with them. It will cancel any and all actions, they will die and you can dance on their body right after. My FC and I do this to botters in North Shroud who kill the plasmoids. It's hilarious watching them fall one by one, and then after three deaths they slap busy on.

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Originally Posted by abzoluut

Does anyone actually know someone who got banned for botting/gil buying?

If you ask me, SE cares more about their sub. No profit for them to ban them.

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^ This, players known on our server that cheat, bot, and/or buy gil have still been around close to nine months now and they seem to keep playing with no issues.

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Originally Posted by Reokudo

Remember boys and girls, if you spot a bot and they're currently engaged in combat... Open trade with them. It will cancel any and all actions, they will die and you can dance on their body right after. My FC and I do this to botters in North Shroud who kill the plasmoids. It's hilarious watching them fall one by one, and then after three deaths they slap busy on.

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The smart ones will already have their status changed before they even start botting though.

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Originally Posted by ToffeeCoffee

GM's don't want to know about it.

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Which is why they need a better reporting tool. I've never had to deal with such a half-assed petition system in my life with such limited options. WoW has a right-click to report spam that automatically blacklists the character and files the report.

We don't have that nor a way to right-click a player to report cheating. If they want our help on these things (and ultimately reduce their own overhead; they're pissing away money) then they need to step it up with their toolset.

I'm willing to look the other way if it lowers materia prices.

Regretfully you report them so many times before you get tired of it and stop doing it.

I've reported bots gathering fire shards in E. Thalanan (near the bridge where the 4x chain FATE pops) for months, they are still doing it....one day I said "to hell with this", they are still there botting and just ignore them

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Originally Posted by Reokudo

Remember boys and girls, if you spot a bot and they're currently engaged in combat... Open trade with them. It will cancel any and all actions, they will die and you can dance on their body right after. My FC and I do this to botters in North Shroud who kill the plasmoids. It's hilarious watching them fall one by one, and then after three deaths they slap busy on.

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Oh, is that why they weren't there last night? They been there for like months though XD should have learned by now.

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Originally Posted by Reokudo

Remember boys and girls, if you spot a bot and they're currently engaged in combat... Open trade with them. It will cancel any and all actions, they will die and you can dance on their body right after. My FC and I do this to botters in North Shroud who kill the plasmoids. It's hilarious watching them fall one by one, and then after three deaths they slap busy on.

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This can also be used to stop players from teleporting. Good way to troll :P

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Originally Posted by Chihaya

Oh, is that why they weren't there last night? They been there for like months though XD should have learned by now.

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Probably, either that or they were finally banned.

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Originally Posted by Gaddes

The smart ones will already have their status changed before they even start botting though.

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Rarely do I see them with busy on preemptively.

Yup there is a summoner in the cave that farms the same 2 goddamn bats for 2 weeks + now.

Tried to troll him by kiting boars in but they reset to early. :/

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Originally Posted by Reokudo

Probably, either that or they were finally banned.

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They haven't been banned. Before Plasmoids in N Shroud, it was Lesser Kalongs in Quarrymill. They've been botting since the game was released.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y5/...e.jpg~original
Welp, they are back. Just passing by to go to ixal's.

Busy sign on but still dead XD

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Originally Posted by TheCurls

They haven't been banned. Before Plasmoids in N Shroud, it was Lesser Kalongs in Quarrymill. They've been botting since the game was released.

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These the ones botting Karakuls too?

I remember seeing 4 dead players in that area a while back. I rezzed them but they never accepted and I just assumed they were AFK. Guess I didn't know I was trying to rez a bot. Whoops!

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Originally Posted by Titor

These the ones botting Karakuls too?

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Nope, different ones.

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Originally Posted by cryptic_angel

^ This, players known on our server that cheat, bot, and/or buy gil have still been around close to nine months now and they seem to keep playing with no issues.

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It's quite a big middle finger to us who wish to experience the game how it is presented to us. I feel really let down when I can easily spot a gil buyer and SE "can't" when they then happily say how they scanned every person on a server to come up with housing prices.

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Originally Posted by abzoluut

It's quite a big middle finger to us who wish to experience the game how it is presented to us. I feel really let down when I can easily spot a gil buyer and SE "can't" when they then happily say how they scanned every person on a server to come up with housing prices.

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It was even more of a slap in the face when they said that housing was so restrictive and expensive /due/ to RMT activity. If RMT is harming your game in a way that stops you from presenting well-wanted features to the legitimate playing community, something is fishy.

We have a group on Cactuar in a FC "111111" they've been reported so many times by various people on the server. Square-Enix simply does not handle bots no matter what they say. I reported them over a month ago myself and I could go to E. Thanalan right now and they'd still be there standing in the same spot with Shadow Flare up using their Ifrit-Egis and chocobos to kill monsters while spamming ruin.

SE owns the bots obviously

The same group of bots is on Diabolos with a different number for their FC (active since 2013!) and since they're located right next to the Ixali beast tribe quests they're even more visible and frustrating to the player base.

On a completely unrelated note, it would be interesting if someone who was more into the 'role playing' aspect of the game decided they wanted to spend some time hanging out in that part of the woods and to broadcast their roleplaying experience for others with the same interests to watch live. If by some unfortunate and unavoidable coincidence the end result was the bots were right behind them in the live broadcast (they don't own that fountain after all, any player can hang out there)... well that's certian not anything I'd encourage doing.