Cloned players with weird names?

Hello, all!

I was levequesting in La Noscea, and a few times already I've seen groups of cloned players, where all of them had exactly the same looks and equipment, not moving, with weird names like "rntgpt nngff" and whatnot. There will always be one different-looking character running from the group to an area spawning groups of enemies, then running back to the cloned group. What are they doing?

Playing the game.

Arr Emm Teee

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

Playing the game.

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loll'ed :S ...

I apologize, but I'm quite a noob at the game. But I'm pretty sure they're doing more than just "playing the game", and I have no idea what "rmt" means. Could you please be more helpful, or refrain from commenting?

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Originally Posted by Rytoast

I apologize, but I'm quite a noob at the game. But I'm pretty sure they're doing more than just "playing the game", and I have no idea what "rmt" means. Could you please be more helpful, or refrain from commenting?

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RMT stands for real-money traders. These people grind to gain tons of Gil, so that they can then sell the Gil for real money.

Thank you very much for your reply, Bowen. Is there anything I should do if I see them again? Or should I just ignore them?

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Originally Posted by Rytoast

Thank you very much for your reply, Bowen. Is there anything I should do if I see them again? Or should I just ignore them?

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Report them if you can. SE does try to ban these guys, but they just keep coming back.

It's quite common, these guys are ''cheater'' if I can say, I don't know exactly what they do, something about farming stuff and gil, you need to report them, that's all I know.

And thanks for the previous people for their nice and interesting response to this thread, really...

Thanks. They've been hanging out @ Cedarwood on the Ragnarok server for the past three days.

You can go to the Lodestone site then scroll down and on the left hand side is a tab for Support Center. After clicking that you can go to the bottom of the page and click on Report to Special Task Force to report these type of people.

Will do. Thanks!

they have been at cedarwood for the past 6months+. SE doesn't seem to do much about them.

They essentially run bots. So one guy controls one char and the rest are bots programmed to follow and do what that char does.

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Originally Posted by Azurymber

they have been at cedarwood for the past 6months+. SE doesn't seem to do much about them.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

While it might seem to many of you that we are not combating RMT related activity at camps like Cedarwood and other places, please rest assured that the operations and STF teams are proactively looking into this and performing thorough investigations. And to give you more insight of their investigations, we banned 700 accounts last week, but as you know they keep coming back.

In addition to ongoing STF efforts, we will be setting up countermeasures system wise as we head towards version 2.0. If you happen to notice any suspicious activity in your adventuring, please take a moment and help us out by making an STF report by going here: http://support.na.square-enix.com/co...hp?id=902&la=1

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/10characters

RMT are never the problem its the people who buy from them >.> as long as people buy gil then RMT shall exist...

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiKayla

RMT are never the problem its the people who buy from them >.> as long as people buy gil then RMT shall exist...

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I wouldn't go so far as to say that... certainly buyers are part of the problem, but don't try to excuse away all of the RMT's behavior with that. It is cheap and absurd.

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Originally Posted by Bowen

RMT stands for real-money traders. These people grind to gain tons of Gil, so that they can then sell the Gil for real money.

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In this case it's only half true. Keep in mind we are getting character resets come ARR. More than likely we will also be able to change our names. We are changing our looks, and we may decide to change our online identities to match our new looks. etc. etc.

so while they can farm gil now, the real payoff will be when ARR launches. as they have 40+ accounts that have several level 50s they can sell and probably have legacy status as well. not only that anyone you play with won't really know you bought the account due to the name change. the entire system is changing so even if you play poorly you can blame the new learning curve. It's fairly genius in an evil sort of way. :/

Not really pay off ..they save alot of money in each bots ..but every bots will lose 1/10 gils lollllllll

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Originally Posted by YeaniNah

Not really pay off ..they save alot of money in each bots ..but every bots will lose 1/10 gils lollllllll

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He was talking about being able to sell the entire account

One days game like that will ask for Passport Number or ID number as obligation and not let Name and last name to be change...if their program see people with multiple Number of that and see its the same people ..then Ban ..and those number cant be change ..so people wont be pushed to buy account with those thing in it..... some korean game have that you need your korean ID to be able to play the game some are able to pass over it by friends. Me my wife's mom let me use her ID to play with my wife in some game.

I've always wondered if there is a server-side transaction log in MMO games like this.

RMT has 12 bots, each gaining 40k gil per hour, they trade the gil to 'account X', (or buy overpriced item from 'account X' in bazaar/MW)

Couldn't they just track the gil and ban 'account X' as well? This method would eradicate months (if not years) of RMT gil accumulation.

On top of that, they could ban entire IP adresses from known RMT.

IP Ban = not efficient. Anyone can come up with 100's of IPs and change at will.

As for tracing the money back, that's supposedly what the STF is doing (at least on XI, they did). Those billions gil removed every now and then from the economy weren't done by banning RMTs one by one. But on XIV it seems like for now SE don't care. They will probably wait for ARR.

What's really messed up is I've seen them numerous times in wolf camp (Natalan). Ballsy RMT.

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Originally Posted by Rytoast

I apologize, but I'm quite a noob at the game. But I'm pretty sure they're doing more than just "playing the game", and I have no idea what "rmt" means. Could you please be more helpful, or refrain from commenting?

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They find it hard to believe you really don't know, that's why they're acting that way. Also, it should be pretty obvious from them all being identical and having gibberish names and all being in the same place doing the same thing that SOMETHING is up.

RMT means Real Money Trade, and these "people" are farming gil to sell to players for Dollars (real money). They are the scum of the earth and you should report any you see to the Special Task Force on SE's support site.

I thought someone (in another thread) suggested to have Atomos and his minions appear at Cedarwood.......

but guess not.