OFFICIAL: Confirmed botting, node-teleporting, terrain-hacking,and exploitation!

Proof:
http://imgur.com/I89Pt7c
http://imgur.com/aEDxguc

How it works:
The gil-sellers hack the terrain. They position themselves in walls, under the ground, and invisible (you can't see their character models, period). This prevents them from being interrupted or getting agro.

The next step is they bot/macro the nodes. I'm inclinded to believe it's a bot as opposed to a macro, given that they are on around a 20 second timetable per 4 nodes.

Furthermore, they teleport between nodes instantly. I'm not even sure how they manage that one, but they're legitimately insta-warping between nodes to maximize their time spent farming vs. walking.

This screen is from Central Thanalan, on the Ultros server. I'm sure you have these same types of people on your server, cheating the same way.

SE, you better get your **** together; this kind of stuff ruined FFXI, and if you don't seriously crack down on it, it's going to ruin FFXIV too.

Please *UPVOTE THIS POST* if you're seeing/witnessing/experiencing this sort of rampant cheating on your server too!

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Originally Posted by Cymdai

I'm not even sure how they manage that one, but they're legitimately insta-warping between nodes to maximize their time spent farming vs. walking.

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Teleporting hacks are the easiest to do in any mmo, but also not the hardest to tell someone has done when reviewing logs.

I got curious, and i will never bot, but i searched youtube, and there are tons of different bots. They seem pretty sophisticated too, they can respond to tells, move in different patterns, etc. They will always be ahead of the people trying to beat them, people will always look for the quickest way to do something, but hopefully square ban hammers them.

The teleporting within objects is an Exploit. These are indeed bots and they have been rampant the past 10 days. They are farming vast quantities of Shards to sell to Crafters. You can tell all the bots in the bot-net by their first names or surnames that they share in common.

And you are right, this kind of thing will ruin an MMO. I played FFXI but not for long when I realized I may have been the only human actually playing in Bastok on my Server. When I walked out town and saw hundreds of fishing bots in a row, and dozens upon dozens of mining bots, I left the game immediately and never looked back.

You can (and probably should) report every one you find for Cheating. I know I do so but I have yet to see a single one get banned.

what a pompous and self grandiose title you chose.
its OFFICIAL Cymdai has spoken! Up vote and Like my post I'm special, I swear!!!1one!eleventy1!
/rant off
you haven't discovered or OFFICIALLY confirmed anything new or even unknown. file a report like a good boy and stop seeking attention and forum recognition by cross posting this on every forum you frequent

Well, someone was hacked, or downloaded the bots but didn't program them to be fully under: So they teleported about sticking up mid-torso:

http://i42.tinypic.com/10hu0zt.pnghttp://

So Starbuck was a ghost...

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Originally Posted by GatorEZ1913

So Starbuck was a ghost...

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+1

Too Funny

With all due respect, it's a non-issue.

I had all my mats from a marathon, 2 day grind in my bags.
30 Nodes open at 26, they are up to date to 31.

I mined from 26 to 30 and had

600+ Wyvern Obsidian
600+ Silex
600+ Bomb Ash

500+ Crystals (not shards - crystals)
120 Tier 2 Carbonized Matter
200+ dye Pigment

My math suggests I have around 6 more stacks before I level out of the tier.

This is a level 26-31 grind. 43 is half way to 50. The amount of material coming in to the game from legitimate mining and gathering dwarfs demand. The markets are going to glut no matter what. All Bots are doing is speeding it up by a few months.

Having looked at the images, those guys are mining crystal shards and if they really wanted to do that effectively they would one shot low level sprites with a 50 DoW. They don't matter.

Yeah, I have seen many people doing this today. I reported at least 3 of them for doing this. Teleporting from 1 monster to another and their character was under the floor! I doubt SE does anything to stop them :/ I wish this game has some GM's on the servers, it's not like it's hard to tell these guys are cheating..

Yes I have frequently seen all manner of bots mining in Thanalan on Sargatanas. i reported the more flagrant team of them. We'll see if anything happens I guess.

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Originally Posted by XenabelleS

Yes I have frequently seen all manner of bots mining in Thanalan on Sargatanas. i reported the more flagrant team of them. We'll see if anything happens I guess.

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I'm on Sargatanas too (/wave) and I saw a bot last night in Spineless Basin. I was actually surprised that I could see only one. They weren't even underground -- just teleporting all over the place in the open. I reported them but I really don't have much faith in SE. The autofarming bot my husband reported on Sunday is still in the game and racking up achievements on Lodestone. Ugh.

u can thank basa bots for most of this they are actualy selling bots for real cash... why would u PAY for a game AND a sub and then Bot it and never play it for all this time it boggles my mind.

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Originally Posted by Ksenia

With all due respect, it's a non-issue.
Having looked at the images, those guys are mining crystal shards and if they really wanted to do that effectively they would one shot low level sprites with a 50 DoW. They don't matter.

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Speeding up the process or not the AH is being affected, they even have hunting bots which are like my worst fear come true. I have seen the bots fail at farming mobs but the major issue is mats that were selling for 250 per, and now being sold at 50 per. Instant gratification kills games, and lowballs everyone else.

Gathering is a slow and grindy process, botting is a temptation that I've had to personally slap sense into myself to avoid. It also takes a lot longer to level up gathering skills than crafting skills, even with leves and manuals. I can understand people wanting to bot gather because it is just...so...slow...and...boring... doesn't make it right though.

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Originally Posted by Mysteryman2000

Speeding up the process or not the AH is being affected, they even have hunting bots which are like my worst fear come true. I have seen the bots fail at farming mobs but the major issue is mats that were selling for 250 per, and now being sold at 50 per. Instant gratification kills games, and lowballs everyone else.

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The reason for that is because everything is fast and easy to level. This is the way things are turning because of the way the system is designed:

1) DoW/DoM fast to level, players able to fast kill low level mobs in large numbers and mass-farm materials
2) High level materials obtained via philosophy tomes which have no limit on how many you can farm per week
3) Gathering jobs take a long time to level, huge amounts of materials being produced from gathering
4) Crafting leves increase leveling speed of crafting jobs, demand for most crafting materials low
5) Crafted equipment and low level consumables not essential, can get the same equipment from quests and NPCs or even better equipment from dungeons, demand for crafted equipment and consumables low
6) Farm bots reported but not being addressed quickly enough, more gathered materials being flooded into the market

So as you can see, there's lots of materials being gathered but the demand is always low. Those trying to sell materials are in a battle to sell theirs first and will keep on dropping the prices until it's as worthless as vendor trash. Those who make crafted items are also in a mad battle to sell theirs and because the demand is low then the prices of those are dropping fast also. SE brought this up on themselves by making everything too quick to level (except the gathering) and by removing the need of crafted equipment.