Why is it such a pain to report botters in this game

I see some dude with stupid name like YOukhjdsf Zkjhk with other similiar names standing on top of him teleporting all over fates, why can't I just right click on his name and report. Not rocket science SE fools, instead I have to write down some report about names, zones times of day wtf.:rolleyes:

why do you bother so much about bots anyway?
It's not like botting is a killing issue in FF.

I can kind of agree, I hate it when I see a FATE and some botter is under the ground, beating up the target with no consequence. It'd be nice if reporting was a little more simpler like that, instead of going out of our way to open up the menu, going to Systems, and picking the Support Desk sub command and writing a lengthy report....

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Originally Posted by NoirRen

why do you bother so much about bots anyway?
It's not like botting is a killing issue in FF.

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This moment, when you are not sure if someone is being sarcastic or serious. :f

It's probably a combination of legacy systems, and making people go out of their way so their reports are thought out (I would hope).

They really should consider making improvements.

I feel like they're convinced that RMT bots are the only real issue that's going on, which why they've only bothered adding a quick report feature for those when they're just the tip of the iceberg,

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Originally Posted by NoirRen

why do you bother so much about bots anyway?
It's not like botting is a killing issue in FF.

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Among other things, they're:

1. Controlling server economies.
2. Annoying people in PvP/duty finder by trying to automate content that requires an actual brain to do effectively.
3. Locking groups out of Amdapor Keep (Normal) entirely by overloading the instance servers.

It's not a "killing issue" per say, but is annoying as heck if you're conscious enough of them to notice how prevalent they are in virtually all aspects of the game and are legitimately harmful to the gameplay experience at times.

Agreed. If I want to report someone in a long duty, I have to scroll all the way up, copypaste each and every sentence the offender typed and also remember/check the time and date it happened. And SE has the guts to tell me to report the incident while it is still ongoing, as if I had time to fill a report form while fighting a boss. I miss Blizzard's report system...

well tbh i've seen bots playing better than some real players in DF.

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Originally Posted by NoirRen

well tbh i've seen bots playing better than some real players in DF.

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You are weirdly protective of bots.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I feel like they're convinced that RMT bots are the only real issue that's going on, which why they've only bothered adding a quick report feature for those when they're just the tip of the iceberg,



Among other things, they're:

1. Controlling server economies.
2. Annoying people in PvP/duty finder by trying to automate content that requires an actual brain to do effectively.
3. Locking groups out of Amdapor Keep (Normal) entirely by overloading the instance servers.

It's not a "killing issue" per say, but is annoying as heck if you're conscious enough of them to notice how prevalent they are in virtually all aspects of the game and are legitimately harmful to the gameplay experience at times.

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Also bots have a tendency to flood the servers and forcing people into queue. Even if you have to wait for 1 person in queue, that is still too much when there are bots roaming around. With the world visit system in place, there's less leg room to work with.

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Originally Posted by Yllania

You are weirdly protective of bots.

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Well they're right soooo... lol. And the gathering bots do a pretty good job and keeping server economies from being dominated by ppl who would otherwise charge out the ass haha.

Bots run into walls for a minute in PotD thats how we know its a bot. It makes the run longer. Also players would probably be able to make money with gathering if bots didnt kill it soooooo....lol

I make senseless, random emotes to use against bots. Then, when they appear near my GC turn-in spot via teleport hacks, I unload my arsenal. I hit them with shovels, traffic lights, melted Klondike bars, and everything else under the sun that makes no sense.

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Originally Posted by Sanctify

Well they're right soooo... lol. And the gathering bots do a pretty good job and keeping server economies from being dominated by ppl who would otherwise charge out the ass haha.

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Crafting materials are dirt cheap, it cause people to rush into other sources of income.
This makes everything cheaper, and also makes it much much harder to get gils out of marketplace, like ten times harder than it would normally be. Bots are oversaturating market with everything it is possible to drop in open world, and players oversaturate market with everything else that is obtainable in different way.
Because of that, gil circulates way slower on the market and it is harder to get gils for someone who is playing normally, bots cumulates all that gil from the market by botting hell out of this game.
On Zodiark we used to get a ton lot more gil for materia we dropped, even V materia were going around 10-20k, and the VI materia was much more than that. Materials for the tomestones were also a lot more expensive and you would be able to farm a lot of gil by casually playing, but this is no more an option since everything gone so cheap it takes like many times longer to get specified amount of gils.
And the crafted gear is not any cheaper either, it was around 700-1000k for piece and it still is, there is no difference in gear prices at all.
No casual actually benefits from bots ruining this game economy, stop spreading a myth, they are hurting this game.