Wandering Bot Moonriver?

I know I'm missing something and it's bugging me...
I go to the Frozen Fissure on the moon and it's always lined by wanderers that will never talk to you. Bots.
But why come to Siren to do fishing here? What am I missing? lol

its not just siren theres always <wanderer> hanging out inside the mooncave fishing on excalibur

I've seen it on Gilgamesh as well, always at least 6 to 10 people fishing.

Not everyone that doesn't want to talk to you is a bot. It's not easy to carry on a conversation and fish at the same time. You're bound to mess something up.

Second, what's so nefarious about people fishing?

Its the oddity of them all being wanderers

Maybe all these <wanderer>'s got lost looking for a Vault. I think next time you see a <wanderer> you should help them out.

I've noticed quite a few <wanderer> bots on the moon before. Not always fishing though, sometimes you'll get a pack of them mounting up at the same time and flying in unison from one FATE to the next.

I'm guessing by changing servers they're hoping they won't be detected as easily. All you can really do is report them through the support desk and hope SE investigates it.

Whats really funny is that so many of them are dressed the same...

Only catch of value from that fishing hole is https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Fleeting_Brand
I guess the bots are farming those as collectables, to then flip for White Script sell-able materials to fund RTM.
The reason for doing it CW would be to hide from player search and launder/sell the materials on whatever world happens to have the best profit.

I'm not sure why these bots have opted for fishing as their method of income, nor can I grasp why the heck they haven't been banned when they're very blatantly using an animation canceling hack.

The only thing that's changed since I first saw them is that that they are no long in a FC, as they were originally handing off their unwanted fish to low level bots who'd just sit by a FC chest constantly desynthing them a tiny bit of extra gil.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

Not everyone that doesn't want to talk to you is a bot. It's not easy to carry on a conversation and fish at the same time. You're bound to mess something up.

Second, what's so nefarious about people fishing?

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I did a more detailed investigation here.

It doesn't take much time/effort at all to tell that these are not actual players.

I'm not too sure SQEX is really serious about dealing with this. All Ive seen them do is that one mass banning of RMT accounts. If they cared then how can it be hard to look at these bots that gather every day and see if they are doing something? How is that not obvious? Not sure it would even take long and they can make these areas a bad idea just by having a GM pop in every few days and have a look.

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Originally Posted by DarkSpite

I'm not too sure SQEX is really serious about dealing with this. All Ive seen them do is that one mass banning of RMT accounts. If they cared then how can it be hard to look at these bots that gather every day and see if they are doing something? How is that not obvious? Not sure it would even take long and they can make these areas a bad idea just by having a GM pop in every few days and have a look.

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They've made it plain they're not going to actively seek out anything, only respond to reports of legit illicit activity. Unfortunately, there's nothing legitimately wrong with what they're doing out there. If they go to check on these supposed bots and there's at least one person that's active, that looks bad for them.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

They've made it plain they're not going to actively seek out anything, only respond to reports of legit illicit activity. Unfortunately, there's nothing legitimately wrong with what they're doing out there. If they go to check on these supposed bots and there's at least one person that's active, that looks bad for them.

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Like I said: They don't seem serious. I seriously doubt its hard to spot the ones that are doing this. They can easily spot the ones that are funneling gil/items to those who RMT.
But your trying to excuse it by saying there isn't anything wrong with doing this mass fishing is kinda sad. Your either completely missing the big picture or your trying to smoke-screen.

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Originally Posted by DarkSpite

Like I said: They don't seem serious. I seriously doubt its hard to spot the ones that are doing this. They can easily spot the ones that are funneling gil/items to those who RMT.
But your trying to excuse it by saying there isn't anything wrong with doing this mass fishing is kinda sad. Your either completely missing the big picture or your trying to smoke-screen.

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I'm only relaying what they've said on the matter. I'm not trying to excuse anything and it has nothing to do with them being serious or not. You can't be serious, expecting them to actively police the game and launch these huge investigations. Maybe you should propose some way to do a "citizens arrest" and see how that goes. Nobody really cares because (aside from the spam) nobody is really affected. If they are, they more or less deserve it for trying to cheat progress like that. As long as those foolish people are out there, these folks will keep finding ways to quietly make money.