Regarding the retainer glitch trick

Many players have started using the storage placement glitch outdoors to place retainers in front of players clicking placards. This syphons gil from the players that click on the retainer. A lot of players will click while watching something else and don't always know when a plot sells. I feel like it's becoming a use for players to simply get a free house and extra gil.

The majority of people being effected by this glitch are players using “auto clickers” to try to claim a plot while afk.

“click while watching something else” If youre clicking for enough time that someone has the time to purchase the house, get the deed, set it up, set up a retainer, place it directly in front of you and figure out where youre clicking, you’re not clicking manually.

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Originally Posted by TragicsGirl

Many players have started using the storage placement glitch outdoors to place retainers in front of players clicking placards. This syphons gil from the players that click on the retainer. A lot of players will click while watching something else and don't always know when a plot sells. I feel like it's becoming a use for players to simply get a free house and extra gil.

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There is no free house. The only way to relocate for free while a purchase timer is still active is to relocate from a large to a small and I don't see anyone giving up their 40-50 million gil large for an uncertain chance make a a couple of million gil off someone using an auto-clicker/bot.

The retainer permits exist to allow a house owner to have their MB listings accessible to visitors at their house and MB listings exist so players can make extra gil. There's nothing wrong going on there.

Ever try purchasing something from a retainer permit? You'd see why it would take extreme bad luck to make an accidental purchase if you were doing the clicking yourself. You need to pay attention to what you are doing to make the purchase.

If you were using an autoclicker or bot, however...

You're not going to get any sympathy from anyone here.

Every single person this "happens to" has more then earned the shiny new expensive trinkets they have purchased.

So basically you're miffed about a glitch trick that's punishing people doing something that's an actual bannable offense?

FYI doing the retainer trick is also a bannable offense and is taken more seriously than reporting those bots you're trying to steal money from. Suggesting it, means you're suggesting to others to be subjected to a ban. Would never suggest that to anyone.

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Originally Posted by TragicsGirl

FYI doing the retainer trick is also a bannable offense and is taken more seriously than reporting those bots you\\'re trying to steal money from. Suggesting it, means you\\'re suggesting to others to be subjected to a ban. Would never suggest that to anyone.

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Citation? Cause I find that hard to believe.

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Originally Posted by TragicsGirl

Many players have started using the storage placement glitch outdoors to place retainers in front of players clicking placards. This syphons gil from the players that click on the retainer. A lot of players will click while watching something else and don't always know when a plot sells. I feel like it's becoming a use for players to simply get a free house and extra gil.

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Ah, the old muscle memory and second monitor excuse. I crack up laughing every time someone uses it. :D


How do people miss people leaving, a flurry of activity and usually "congrats" being thrown around, and a whole darn house going up??? Nah, nothing wrong there, lol. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by TragicsGirl

FYI doing the retainer trick is also a bannable offense and is taken more seriously than reporting those bots you're trying to steal money from. Suggesting it, means you're suggesting to others to be subjected to a ban. Would never suggest that to anyone.

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No one is going to get banned for placing a retainer permit on their plot using the storage glitch. Stop spreading misinformation.

No one is stealing anything by placing a retainer permit in their yard. Purchases cannot happen by accident.

If you want to continue using your click bot/script, that's your choice and your risk.

Need credible evidence with screenshots/video and such.
Never seen anyone actually get punished for the retainer trick even when instant relocation was a thing before 6.0

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Originally Posted by TragicsGirl

Many players have started using the storage placement glitch outdoors to place retainers in front of players clicking placards. This syphons gil from the players that click on the retainer. A lot of players will click while watching something else and don't always know when a plot sells. I feel like it's becoming a use for players to simply get a free house and extra gil.

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My best advice to avoid this is a) don't use an auto clicker and b) pay attention to the screen.

Both are reportable and bannable, but unfortunately the one that will be punished will not be the bot. It will be the one putting out a retainer.

You are not scamming anyone. You are selling highly desirable items that the person clearly wants. Why else would they be buying them?

(1) I have no sympathy.
(2) Ive actually helped my old roomate, who went to the store for nearly an hour. I held the Ps4 controller, and was in a completely different room reading a manga, while pressing the button motions. Nothing happened to his character, but I know I wasnt the only person doing this for him. He had his Wife, and another friend do it when he was at work. And, like me, they did similar with his controller.

I also just dont care about the situation enough.

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Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon

(2) Ive actually helped my old roomate, who went to the store for nearly an hour. I held the Ps4 controller, and was in a completely different room reading a manga, while pressing the button motions.

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Then you are fortunate that you managed to keep the sequence on track for that long – or possibly were oblivious to the fact that you were pressing the wrong thing half the time.

I just have a very hard time believing that anyone can keep pressing the right buttons in the right sequence, without the screen as reference, and while their mind is engaged in another task.

(This is not an accusation that you weren't sitting there pressing the buttons, just high doubt on the effectiveness of doing so.)

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Originally Posted by Iscah

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in my case i wasnt spaming it non stop.
it was more like, once a minute or so, id press the 3 button sequence, or w/e it was.

I have literally fallen into a doze while still clicking and I beat an auto clicker too lol

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Originally Posted by Mango2020

I have literally fallen into a doze while still clicking and I beat an auto clicker too lol

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But did you keep clicking for an hour after the plot was sold?

What? Am I gonna have to muster some sympathy for cheaters now? Pfffs, please, I'm too tired for that.

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Originally Posted by Mango2020

I have literally fallen into a doze while still clicking and I beat an auto clicker too lol

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That doesn't really prove anything. It all comes down to luck at the moment the house goes up for sale.

So long as your dozing off happened prior to that moment, it makes no difference to your chance of winning it if you wake up and see it's still unavailable.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

But did you keep clicking for an hour after the plot was sold?

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no cause I was just dozing so i still heard the tell tail sound of winning.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

That doesn't really prove anything. It all comes down to luck at the moment the house goes up for sale.

So long as your dozing off happened prior to that moment, it makes no difference to your chance of winning it if you wake up and see it's still unavailable.

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If you're auto-clicking then whether or not you win you'll keep clicking. I mean players can choose to take a video of a person still clicking then report them or have them buy a bunch of expensive junk. If I was auto-clicking I would rather loose some millions than get banned

There may be a tiny subset of players that were legitimately clicking and got taken advantage of by the retainer placement at the placard. Maybe 1 in a 1000. Let's be honest here. The screen "looks different" after the house sells. The standard click sequence no longer pops up the same windows since now it shows the house is owned. If a player continues to click at that point, I have to wonder how they didn't notice.