The situation with bots in my server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juIzzA21p8I
It's completely out of hand. 90% of the people in North Thanalan are bots.

They are really easy to spot.

Here is a few clues of how.
But the easiest is when the fate of Dark devices is up, every time a phase ends the bots run away because they don't know another fate is about to start in the same spot so you see a train of people leaving and then coming back a few second later.

Another one is in the fates that you need to hand in items you will see the bots stuck in the fate killing enemies till it reaches 100% and then they leave it without handing in any of the items.

In the fate of the big Eye he spawns on top of some corrupted crystal and if people tank it there then the bots don't know how to react and stay still waiting there doing nothing.

In the Ceruleum road they go to the start of the fate even if the fate has already moved and after reaching the original spot they try to catch up to the NPC. Then they always follow it and sometimes there is so many of them that they don't see the enemies and you keep following the NPC and are stuck till legit players kill the enemies on the road.

This video doesn't show names but the people there have been reported many times and never get banned. Some even do it the whole day but they are specially active during the night. If only 1 GM would log in and check this zone he would see it himself. Pretty much at any time of the day.

Well that's pretty apparent to me. I haven't visited this zone yet. The herd running had me laughing to be honest.

You'd think with the change in aether currents recently the herd would have migrated farther south. Curious indeed.

You see people at like lv58 here so the fates in the HW zones are dead.

Same thing here in Tonberry, it's funny to see them all get stuck in the FATE with the giant ahriman boss since the boss is inside the crystal structure and they can't jump up.
I wouldn't say I encourage botting but they do "help" with the FATE refresh rate at ungodly hours like 3am.

Agreed, that's why you have to be cheeky about it.

It's what happens when a company is to cheap to invest in minimal detection software and you can buy a bot program for 10 bucks. Most of the cheaters moved from wow and already several thousand botters have shown up.

That is genuinely horrifying to see. I'm glad I'm not on Ragnarok as that would be enough to make me quit altogether. Before anyone says it, why the hell should *I* have to pay to get away from cheaters? Luckily, I'm on Leviathan and have yet to encounter something so blatant as that.

It does make me wonder if that those who do it have gotten away with it for so long, it being a legacy server, that they (rightly?) assume anything goes with no consequences.

Please Square Enix, give me a ban hammer and I'll specifically use my time and account to take these down, no charge. It ruins the game for everyone.

Yes I've been playing since start of FFXIV 1.0 but the current situation let me think about to quit the game. it was everytime a problem but now its taking over.

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That being said it is fairly common on excalibur to see huge groups of people wearing the same thing and running the same direction, mass genociding the wildlife of Thanalan before flocking back together like magic wielding birds.

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Until Square Enix is able to create a counter army this will continue to be a thing.

Dll injection based bots is one of the easiest cheats to catch in a game. Se could use a punk buster program fairly cheap. Why they want to go with a slow 3 man team beats me unless they are interested in keeping a high player base with people they feel only cheat casually like recreational dope users.

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Originally Posted by Aryalandi

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That being said it is fairly common on excalibur to see huge groups of people wearing the same thing and running the same direction, mass genociding the wildlife of Thanalan before flocking back together like magic wielding birds.

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OP isn't talking about RMT bots. He's talking about bots in dreadwyrm gear.

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That being said it is fairly common on excalibur to see huge groups of people wearing the same thing and running the same direction, mass genociding the wildlife of Thanalan before flocking back together like magic wielding birds.

Until Square Enix is able to create a counter army this will continue to be a thing.

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It took... at least 10 reports to get rid of the bots in North Shroud on Excalibur, and they came back under new names the following patch. To which more reports were made and they disappeared.... after a month.

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Originally Posted by Arrak

OP isn't talking about RMT bots. He's talking about bots in dreadwyrm gear.

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I seem to recall the game doesn't offer any EXP once you're 6 levels above the FATE/Monster rank. I know FATES themselves still offer EXP but it's trivially little.

As for players doing this... they're likely doing this so they could "world first" Alexander, and it would be an opportune time to report all this behavior before Alexander is out.

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I seem to recall the game doesn't offer any EXP once you're 6 levels above the FATE/Monster rank. I know FATES themselves still offer EXP but it's trivially little.

As for players doing this... they're likely doing this so they could "world first" Alexander, and it would be an opportune time to report all this behavior before Alexander is out.

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I'm sure that if you level sync you get EXP. Unless you're already capped that is. Even a small amount of EXP is valued if you can zerg it every minute or so.

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You're implying someone is being unreasonable to expect a game NOT to be filled with *easily* detected cheating scum? Wow.

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You see people at like lv58 here so the fates in the HW zones are dead.

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Fates in HW zones are dead because the XP sucks, it's actually a lot more efficient (and easier) to do fates in original zones, more XP/Hr, just another example of awful planning for SE with this expansion.

I believe exp stops in North than at 57. So if you see someone 58 grinding FATEs there, chances are they forgot to turn off their bot.

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You're implying someone is being unreasonable to expect a game NOT to be filled with *easily* detected cheating scum? Wow.

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Nope, not at all, it is perfectly reasonable, I do alot of reporting this sort of thing, its a drag.. just not a drag that is new.

An army of dreadwyrm bots is shiny and special but sadly also entirely expected at this point because as stated in the part of the post you cut out square will never be able to fix the issue without more people.. /alot/ more people. And even with a counter army it will still take a long time.

They don't care. Bots are subscribers too and due to the sheer amount of them, taking action would cost them a ton of money. If it bothers you that much I would recommend quitting because they will never do anything about it. There are many cases of bots being reported daily by dozens of peoples for months and months and nothing being done.

People just do it openly and blatantly like in your video because they know there's nothing risky about it. Game has absolutely zero integrity.

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Fates in HW zones are dead because the XP sucks, it's actually a lot more efficient (and easier) to do fates in original zones, more XP/Hr, just another example of awful planning for SE with this expansion.

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Since when is the word "efficient" synonymous with "lazy"? Because that's all I'm hearing from that comment. All of these folks were jabbering on about wanting challenging content yet here's the expansion and we can't find these clowns in any of the expansion areas.

I would like to see a reply from the comunity team to see if this is an accepted activity by SE because i have been reporting many people for months and they are always there and no action is taken. It would be nice because i want to know if i'm wasting my time.