Novice Network overrun with spam bots

Despite reporting constantly we on Lou have a major bot issue, hundreds of bots spamming 0's have taken over the Novice Network so players cannot join. The 30 minute kick is not enough, our kick messages ended up still going on over 12 hours after we did them and I now question which is worse, 500 kick messages or 500 bots spamming 000. The bots appear to all be in parties farming duties and new players are failing to get the help they need due to this. Is anyone else experiencing this, I'm presuming as we are a preferred server we are the bots favourite destination.

Just to follow up, there's currently around 300 bots in the NN this morning.. it's going to restrict actual new players from joining when they are all online later. :(

Mid afternoon and due to the bots the NN is absolutely full with no room for new players, something that hasn't really happened since ew release.

Heya

See this as a kind of mass Report (and those Pictures are just a FEW for them)

They don't stop popping. and soon all the 412 Newbies will be Bots.

Btw as it seems nearly all Servers of Chaos are infested, making it unable to help new people in the Novice Network

Is that really the Way it's intentioned?

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Best Regards,
Tayaka Hono

Just did count, there's currently 168/412 Non Bots in the Novice Network. Which means there's 244 Bots currently blocking spots of Newbies just on Louisoix. They stopped spamming the 0 , which is kinda good but really... NN was some kind of the last Place we were save of Bots...

Eureka is full of Bots, Goldsellers, MSQ Bots, Dungeon Bots (ye you even can run into bots on normal queues), Crafting Bots, Gathering Bots, sometimes MB Bots

Is there anything , besides reporting them to the STF , that players can do. Because people already do that but Reporting that mass of Bots, also require a long time. I can imagine that even that will stop at some time, as it's frustrating not to see any progress, when you report Bots over and over for Days / Weeks sometimes even Months.

I'm sorry but 5 Members in the STF are NOT enough, prove me wrong if you got more members but in the Credits of EW there were 5 while in ShB there only were 3... 5 People for something like thousand of Bots a Week is just a Fight they will lose at some point and I think they reached this point now.

Anyway, Still hope is up to outlive them. Just tell us players if we can help you with something else. If there was an official Call against Bots, people gladly would help out

Best Regards
Tayaka

I'll just leave this here :)

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This is just a friendly reminder of the first 6 Pages of our Novice Network tonight.

Have a Great Evening

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Who keeps adding the bots, even? JFC that sounds like a hot mess

Heya,

We have No Idea since there's no "Log" or "Mentor xy invited yz into the Novice Network"

but kicking them is not really an option as they just rejoin after 30 minutes of kick. I think for newbies it's even an Auto-Rejoin while Mentors can join and Leave as they Wish.

You don't even need to be in the NN as a Mentor to invite people to it. So we can't even narrow it down on those.


Best Regards
Tayaka

we might as well call the place bot network at this point, so many of them

The problem still persists; could we have some insight on how it will be resolved, please?
Thank you.

Heya

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...62/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...94/unknown.png

Just a Reminder that this still exsists, it's been from this morning.

Best Regards
Taya

Due to the EU Servercrash, all the Bots returned to the NN and start again with their Spam

[18:53][NOVICE]Ox Nellemond: 0
[18:54]Novice - Ox Nellemond has been kicked from the channel by Tayaka Hono.
Reason: Novice Network Bot. It's Kicking Time

https://prnt.sc/OqNOOHktW8SD
https://prnt.sc/GPGc1ODpwhfa
https://prnt.sc/d84em_tmlIuM

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Sinova

Due to the EU Servercrash, all the Bots returned to the NN and start again with their Spam

[18:53][NOVICE]Ox Nellemond: 0
[18:54]Novice - Ox Nellemond has been kicked from the channel by Tayaka Hono.
Reason: Novice Network Bot. It's Kicking Time

https://prnt.sc/OqNOOHktW8SD
https://prnt.sc/GPGc1ODpwhfa
https://prnt.sc/d84em_tmlIuM

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

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After Continuesly kicking for several Hours i sent another list with over 110 Bots to the STF.
Atm we're capped on the NN again

https://prnt.sc/sshIeddbjWSP

Right now there's over 200 Bots in the Novice Network

Thanks for your Time and Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

If only we knew! I would very much like to see a new system stating in chat which mentor invites which character so we can eliminate the source. I have never in all my years playing seen anything like this.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Sinova

After Continuesly kicking for several Hours i sent another list with over 110 Bots to the STF.
Atm we're capped on the NN again

https://prnt.sc/sshIeddbjWSP

Right now there's over 200 Bots in the Novice Network

Thanks for your Time and Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

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Thank you for taking the time to post and provide evidence, hopefully someone out there will sit up and take note.

Heya,

It's 1.22 AM German Time

Currently there are 318 "New Adventurers" in the novice Network. I did count 181 Real Players, which means there's 137 Bots currently in our Novice Network. So 43% of the Novice Network now is Bots. During Primetime it goes up to over 240 Bots.

I would like to take screens as Evidence but I know that if I send Playernames of actual players the Post just gets deleted.

So I'll refrain from that and will send a List of Bots tomorrow again. Maybe somewhen the STF will take care of them


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

PS: If you need information or want a talk, just pull me into the GM Jail whenever. I and I know alot of others will help to provide Evidence as long as we know that someone is actually looking into it.

Louisoix - Tayaka Hono - Young Edda - Au'Ra Xaela - Male (Server - Name - FC Name - Race - Gender) , so you know you got the right one

Good Evening,

~Push~

Reported another 120 Bots from today.

Thank you for your Work and as I said, I don't blame the GM's, neither Ingame or Forum because they do a great work. So does the STF (I see alot of banned Accounts in the News) but they are just not enough Members to take care of the EU Bots in my Opinion.

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Also agreeing with all that's been said so far. This is quite the surge of bot activity, and it's really inconvenient that it's rampant in Novice Network now. I've been doing my part and kicking them as I can but I did log into FFXIV to actually play the game, not play Kick-A-Bot. And sometimes I'll finish up a cutscene or duty to see that one bot has managed to spam "0" a few times before I could get to kicking them.

Looking forward to a solution soon.
Vinserus Daemon

no cap on a stack fr fr
squeenix is a multi dollar company they cant afford to deal with bots

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Originally Posted by MaaryZeleste

no cap on a stack fr fr
squeenix is a multi dollar company they cant afford to deal with bots

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~Push~

I'm sorry but Sarcasm doesn't really help our Case.
They can deal with Bots, they did it in the past but I guess the STF is concentrated on different Matters atm. It's just that they don't have the required Manpower at the moment. Besides you see a LOT of Accounts getting banned every Week and the Ingame GM's do a fantastic Job (but their Hands are bound to neither having the rights but also not having the tools to check for bots)


So Anyway, Back to Topic:

Atm we still have over 100+ Bots in our Novice Network. Filling it up until a few Mentor kick 10 or so to make space for Newbies.
Could we maybe have some kind of a Roadmap on how we can help or where to go from now?


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

~Push~

Problem still exists.

Meanwhile other Mentors figured out the Name of the One that invites them. They put a Trap and the Guy/Girl ran right into it. He/She was reported multiple times to the Ingame GM's to at least get rid of the source.

The Bots still remain in the Novice Network


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Problem seems to be solved, didn't see bots in a few days now.

Thank you alot for caring for it <3


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Did they do the monthly bot purge?

Hope they don't start creeping back.

Nah I guess they either banned the dude that invited them or he stopped playing.

He was reported quite often

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono