abusing 3rd party software for gathering(Encourage to report)

It recently caught my eye how many bots who are running around and teleporting from node to node and gathering. You can clearly see that this is often accounts who are made for farming, seeing they have a lvl10 DoW/DoM and a high lvl miner on their character

Ofcourse there can also be normal players, and we shouldn't jump to conclussion that everyone is a bot. However when they start teleporing from node to node, then this is making an unfair advantage for the players not resorting to abuse 3rd party software.

I posted a Youtube video to show how these bots work/look like, and I encourage people to report the players when they see them as often as possible. You might not care, but for the servers economy and to keep the "spam bots" on a low profile, then its important that we take action and help out SE the best we can

If you are unsure of how these bots look like then you can take a look at this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLmwJ7dws-w


Gerzilia\Nemin

Wow that's crazy how is he even teleporting...am struggling just to lvl my miner I guess the normal way 😪
Hopefully they can put a stop to this

Yup, lots of them on Leviathan too. Here's a video I made of one yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHxX...ature=youtu.be

I hope they stop this soon! It's already really hard as a gather selling your mats this will destroy whats left of the economy for us. If you believe the other threads on this Square will wait until its way too late and the only people left gathering are bots. :(

Indeed. This is why I can't stress the matter enough that we atleast report them, to make Square Enix aware of that this is a legit problem. Don't ignore them, and just walk by, as that will not solve anything at all as it is now.

This has been going on since beta but I've noticed more in the last few days than before. I report them when I see them, but often see the same bot days later. SE is too slow. Too slow with customer service, too slow dealing with server issues, too slow dealing w/ RMT spam, and too slow dealing with hacks.

How can we report it? is there a tool?

I noticed this yesterday as well while I was mining. I used the ingame cheat report (press esc, choose 2nd option from top I think, then click contact us. The cheat report is about mid way down)

Of course, after a couple of hours the same people I reported were still warping around, so I don't think it's working that great atm.

i report every 1 using those bot systems i see lmao, i ran around thanalan n reported mayb 15 yesterdays :P

I'm glad others are making videos, I wish I had fraps or something installed so I could do the same. I just only started leveling my mining, and this is when I noticed them (I never saw this with Botany). On my server they tend to be naked Lalafells...

It also makes me laugh that they're using the "Stealth" skill as if no one can see them.

They more than likely use stealth to avoid agro monsters at certain nodes..

I can't make out the name in the 2nd video but I think I reported him as well. One guy was from that fc RVENT or whatever it is called. S I think even normal players are taking this stupid risk.

Here's two videos of miner Bots i caught yesterday, this is why i keep my camtasia program on stand-by. Mark em' Record em' Report em'. It's all i can do. I have sent reports to SE both in game and through their main website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA7CT5oL_BY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9n3MqJt2w

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Originally Posted by Avirex92

Here's two videos of miner Bots i caught yesterday, this is why i keep my camtasia program on stand-by. Mark em' Record em' Report em'. It's all i can do. I have sent reports to SE both in game and through their main website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA7CT5oL_BY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ9n3MqJt2w

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For what? As someone said on the 1st page, SE is too slow and someone in a different thread on general discussion was asking why SE doesn't have a GM teleporting across the map banning these players XD I reported a teleporthacking miner 1 or 2 weeks ago and he's still there. I'm ignorant here. I really...really cannot and do not understand what can take so long with banning an account. Yes, there's lots of servers, yes there's lots of ToS Violaters (to sum them up) but when it is SO obvious...

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Originally Posted by Rgbg

For what? As someone said on the 1st page, SE is too slow and someone in a different thread on general discussion was asking why SE doesn't have a GM teleporting across the map banning these players XD I reported a teleporthacking miner 1 or 2 weeks ago and he's still there. I'm ignorant here. I really...really cannot and do not understand what can take so long with banning an account. Yes, there's lots of servers, yes there's lots of ToS Violaters (to sum them up) but when it is SO obvious...

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Yes SE might be(is) slow. However if we don't report at all, then the problem will just be dusted under the carpet.

This is getting ridiculous.. I turn off whisper, Turn off shout.. and now they are TELEPORTING around town using /say to spam thier damn gold selling. I DONT WANT YOUR GIL GO AWAY!! FFS! ><!!

creepy bastards ruining our game :( reported a few as well today

Thanks for the heads-up about this. I read this thread earlier in the day, then while I was mining later tonight, I actually saw someone teleporting in the area I was in. The actually teleported right in front of me while I was mining at one of the nods. I then watched them teleport from nod to nod in the area, and they were indeed in stealth mode to avoid monster encounters. I reported them as you suggested. To be honest, if you hadn't raise this as an issue, I would probably not though much of it, or just thought that it was odd.

The thing I can't get over is how blatant this is, along with the gold-sellers and there /tells. I got one the other day as soon as I logged in, which isn't a surprise, but then when I walked of the hotel I was staying at, I saw the gold-seller bot that sent me the message standing right there in front of the inn. I have been reporting gold sellers as soon as I figured out how. I just don't have the energy to reporting them all.

However, I am enjoying Final Fantasy XIV. :)

Stealth just prevents them from being attacked since there is probably no one manning the computer that is running the bot anyway. It just runs 24 hours a day until the move to a new location.

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I really...really cannot and do not understand what can take so long with banning an account.

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Square bans in waves, not as each pops up. They are also not light with the banhammer. If i could find the link to the bans they post each month in FFXI you'd see. Some months go over 10K. Accounts banned, gil frozen. Each month. There have been thousands of bans already, and i doubt they will slow down.

Yes, you should report all of these as soon as you see them. I know first-hand how frustrating it is to report them and see nothing happening, as with the fleece farming bots I've witnessed in Coerthas. However, keep doing it.

The effect this behaviour has on our server economies is devastating and it needs to be stopped. It facilitates RMT money-making and no honest, decent person wants that in FFXIV. Let's get rid of them.

Found this little guy while getting some Wind Crystals. Turns out he's been botting since launch, been reported a ton and just went into hiding.
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps9c9c7f9c.png

Seeing the FC tag I did a player search of miners in the Black Shroud...
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...psd2b40565.png
Only one <SOW> there.

Should also be aware that not every bot teleports. Have seen a few that seemed like normal players, until I started to get a bit suspicious, since nobody can be as crazy as to mine as much as I do. :P They jump occasionally, one had a companion and both I've seen were in known guilds. However, when you start to notice their path, maybe even place your character in it and wait for them to make a full lap, you'll see it's on perfect rails, even if it doesn't always jump in the same spots. Naturally they won't respond to tells or /say.

One of them was at Bluefog, and even had a function to backtrack and run in circles off path when one of the fates spawned in the mining area.

This is getting frustrating and it's hard to believe anything is being done about it. Every lvl5-lvl10 mining/botany node always has at least one or two bots there on my server.

Saw this today and reported it as well.

Now I understand how they can make so much gil. These toons are cheating and making all that gil to sell through gil selling web sites probably.

They always find a way to ruin the games.

Saw the same this today that StarMarmot did. Didn't think anything of it until they started running in the exact same patterns every single time. And wouldn't even run straight at the nodes as they got closer to them they would run the same 'rail' until they get close to a node then dart over to the one they wanted to harvest.

It's mind numbing to harvest a few hundred items but at least don't bot!