How bad is the teleport hackers plague on your server?

On our server Phoenix EU, the teleport-hackers are running rampant on Coerthas, farmin fleece like mad (witnessed and reported by many, even in our FC), same few dudes selling thousands of fleeces.

And we all know you would not be able to gather that much from the 5-7 sheep that are in the game within few days without hacks, since there are other people legitimately farming them also (atleast trying, but they can't because these tele-hackers are tagging and killing them before they even spawn).

Atleast 3 guys from the same FC have been witnessed by multiple player doing it (have been reported days ago, but S-E seems to be doing nothing about these economy breaking hackers)


Your thoughts on the matter? I personally think this should be their TOP priority before anything else, even gil-sellers, they can atleast be blocked for the time being.

Really, no replies? Could it be possible our server is the only one suffering teleport hacks and bots? (ninja-bump)

I feel for the people actually legit leveling harvesting because I see the bots all the time. What's even worse is actually seeing the same botters on their DoM/DoW class a couple days later. They never want to talk about why they are sneak teleporting :(

Have you thought for a second that those are the gil sellers... They farm the supplies sell the supplies make the money and sell it back to desperate people who can't afford to do things honestly then they hack their account and I see them on here gashing about it... I haven't seen any on my server however I'm not really high enough level to really pay attention... I did read that walking up to them and initiating a trade will stop them from attacking and they will get killed by the enemy... Not sure how true this is but I have read it a few times by different people...

there are some mobs that are overcamped (bots and players) , i feel sorry for crafters ><

Man, i spends hours and days farming shards. They spends hours and days SLEEPING while the bots are doing the work ?!

How do you think that make me feel ? Worst yet after all my handwork at gathering and crafting they screw up my market ?!

WHAT ?! Am I wasting my time here ? Literally ? I have a Japanese that I was discussing about this issue, you know what he told me ? "I feel like honesty don't reward you in this game"

You know how much that pains me ?!?!??

I actually see some one selling 10k shards in my server, split into 5k stack.

I keeps thinking gathering is one of the most hard to level thing in this game, since there's no lack and no HQ leves to hand in like crafters. But these bots and farmer is really killing me.

(Well they can only sell shards, you still can make your money after you reach 50s) I just wonder how long will they have to Bot (sleep IRL) to reach 50s.

Worst yet, when i spend 5 hours of hard work farming. They Multi - box bot'ing. Everything I do they do it 3 ~ 5 times faster and more efficient !?!?

REALLY ?! JUST BY SLEEPING ?!

(I'm sooo sorry for all the rage... i really am.. but please understand me here.)

I've yet to see one.

Gilgamesh has quite a lot. Would be nice if the ones I reported over a week ago weren't still blipping around the game... I'm sure it takes a bit of time to go over cheat reports and to gather evidence and such. Still is a bit defeating none the less.

I see a miner bot and i report him. Also, gillseller shout and wisper too.

RMT's stole or create more account than SE can ban, without counting, real account will not be banned but they take the money and sell it

Had seen teleporting miners before release and I also noticed a guy half inside the ground mining away just recently that teleported afterwards.

Here's a picture... with only his pickaxe showing.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7429/9...af018acb_o.jpg


once in a while you could see his head poke out... other people also confirmed seeing the same thing I was seeing.

it's a plague on Ultros at every gathering point. I'll take more screenshots. worse, though, I can't report them. the UI won't load for me ;___;

even when I report them, GM's are silent. I wonder if the Gaol was made just for show

On Balmung I've only witnessed 2 teleport miner bots (At the same location), and a single pocket of auto-farmers (with 6 or 7 thaumaturges in it, very close to the teleport miner bots). Needless to say I reported them all

I have noticed that on Balmung at least, the gilsellers are now advertising crystals as well as gil, which is no doubt the purpose behind the auto-miners

I've witnessed 3 here on Siren. I reported them of course. This behavior pisses me off. :(

I'm sick of these idiots everywhere. Really demotivating for those of us who are leveling the legit way. I'm surprised SE hasn't done anything about this yet. These people should be banned for life.
I'm also surprised that it's even possible to teleport around like they do. I thought stuff happened server-side and not locally? Is it some kind of injection hack?

Just get these idiots out of my game please.

I find it impossible to believe when some people say things like, "SE needs to investigate and it takes time". If it does take them that long then they need to re-structure how they police this and empower the investigating GMs. I choose to see this as the simple problem and fix that it is. If one GM per server was empowered with ban authority, all they would need to do is cruise around, spend the few seconds it takes to determine this is being done by someone, click, ban. Why do we continue to believe it needs to be harder than this?

Oh and while the GM is trucking along on his invisible chocobo he can ban the gil spammers he comes across in shout as well.

Only just picked up mining today... and in Western Thanalan (on Odin server) near Sunrise Gate, this one player has been teleporting between nodes, and mining with only the pick and sometimes head exposed from inside the node.

Reported twice in 3 hours....

what's worse.. looked them up on loadstone.... they have heaps of pets, mounts, good gear.. and are double the level for the area.. and generally look like a well played account... even has a good name....

They can drive the price of fleece down or something, but don't worry, the Weavers Union will continue to gouge everyone 10k for one woolen cloth. Hurray, the economy is saved!

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They can drive the price of fleece down or something, but don't worry, the Weavers Union will continue to gouge everyone 10k for one woolen cloth. Hurray, the economy is saved!

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Supply Vs Demand. Right now it's a seller market, if you want to see it go down (Or better still, a piece of the pie) why not join 'em?

Even if they do get banned sadly they ran rampant for too long and the damage is already done.

Havent seen one yet but atm im more focussed on leveling and pve, not yet into crafting so perhaps then

I don't know if this is the case for everyone else but for me this plague has made me give up on leveling gathering for a while. I'm a level 28 miner, but since market is so saturated with items from these... individuals it's a pain to even get a little return from the grinding process that gathering is (aside from spamming leves)

If only they would take the banhammer for a walk more often..

Because SE drags its feet on investigating this, it allows them to be profitable. If SE was banning these guys within the first few hours they started then the ratio of profit vs time invested (to hack accts or raise a toon to 10 to get get a gathering class) would become not favorable to the RMTs.

Yeah they are on Diabolos as well. I've seen them farming ore around Copperbell mines. The teleporting thing seems to do with stealth as they are all in stealth mode when they are teleporting-at least on their miners they were. I also saw a Glad bot farming mobs outside the Silver Bazaar...teleporting around from mob to mob. I think he was trying to get the minion that drops from them? I dunno why he would farm them otherwise, lol.

I, and several others, have reported these people.

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Your thoughts on the matter? I personally think this should be their TOP priority before anything else, even gil-sellers, they can atleast be blocked for the time being.

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I've been reporting the same bot farming sheep for days now. I stand by him, claim the mobs and watch as he kills them the same way every time. As soon as the chocobo despawns it's up again. He never moves, doesn't respond to tells, and never tried to win spawns. If he doesn't claim it, he still kills it when I do.

No response from SE, no action. Fun...

i found 3 last night for the 1st. i report all 3 so i will see what happens

Diabolos has LOTS!

I went to south shroud to level mining...
ran into/reported 7 bots.

All lalafel. All naked. All stealth...all running circles around me mining nodes and teleporting before i finish the node i'm on!

I play on Exodus... and you can't throw a rock in Thanalan without hitting one of these jerk offs. Nearly every node, in every zone has at least one bot workin it at any givin time. Two during high traffic. Gets aggravating watching these punks hack their way to 50, hack other players into the poor house, just cause they are too lazy to do the damn work themselves. I have no respect for someone who can't just play the damn game and you know...EARN things. There's a thought right? It's ridiculous how rampant this problem is. Some of us bust our butts at our craft cause it matters to us and we enjoy what we get out of it... If someone thinks that's too much "trouble" then go play something else better suited for a short attention span.