Cheaters in the Gold Saucer, What Can We Do?
Over the past couple months now, especially since the Make It Rain event started, I've noticed a large increase in the number of cheaters using 3rd-party software to farm Gold Saucer attractions for MGP while AFK. This is obviously unfair to the rest of us who earn our MGP and prizes the honest, intended way.
You may think using a bot to farm MGP is harmless, but that's not the point. The point is that it is unfair. The time it takes you to earn enough MGP to buy a prize, especially an expensive one like Fenrir, is time you paid real money for to play with your subscription. When people cheat they are getting those prizes faster and for no effort, so while it might take you the cost of three months' subscription to get something, a cheater could get it over just a few days while they sleep.
Now, if a report itself is enough to warrant an investigation, what else can we do and include in our reports in order to help prove that these players are in fact cheating?
Also, what can Square Enix do to help prevent people from cheating and/or catch cheaters more effectively? Would adding the equivalent of "The fish sense something amiss" to Gold Saucer games work, or a popup after playing a game for a certain number of time where you have to enter a caption to continue? Personally I dislike these, but I dislike cheaters more.