Bots are now teleporting from mob to mob.

[Liavain_Axon]

Most mmo's use server side movement don't they? (Not being sarcastic. Honest question.)

They are supposed to.

Here is a very enlightening article by a Game Designer named Raph Koster. The most important thing Designers need to realize is- The Client is in the hands of the Enemy.
Another important thing Developers need to realize is that-

Macroing, botting, and automation
No matter what you do, someone is going to automate the process of playing your world.

Corollary:
Looking at what parts of your game players tend to automate is a good way to determine which parts of the game are tedious and/or not fun.

I wonder if Yoshi and Co. have read The Laws of Online World Design.

[Zipdar]

So I get home and log in and the bot that was teleporting this morning is still at it! That was 8 am and now it is 5:30 pm.

[Comicbookguy]

So I get home and log in and the bot that was teleporting this morning is still at it! That was 8 am and now it is 5:30 pm.

This bot on my server has been teleporting gathering for over 10 days in South Shround. Reported him and other reported him, still bottering as of yesterday.

[Ryios]

And to anyone who's never seen teleport hackers before,

-FFXI: People were underground mining points the same way they are now
-WOW: During launch the addon system allowed a guy to build an xyz hack people could run as a wow addon with a background process that did the teleporting, you could run super fast with it, climb any mountain, and teleport to any zone instantly (no zone loads since the worlds is 100% open), it was an epidemic, tons of people used it. Eventually blizzard locked down a large chunk of the addon features to be protected, implemented warden, and mass banned a TON of people and the addon died down from instant bans using it.
-Ever: Ever seen a teleporting ship, I have, and there was once an exploit on dmg output where cruisers were 1 shotting anything they touched.

Basically, any subscription based game where there is a way and a demand will have RMT/Hackers.

[XenoSamurai]

I was actually looking around on the forums trying to figure out where to put the video I took of exactly what you described.

When is this junk going to be laid to rest? Bad enough you can't enter a city without a wall of text spam and the random tells from the "hacked" players trying to sell gil. Speaking of which, HOW many fools are going to keep going to these sites, getting hacked and then enabling new gil spammers? It's like a chaotic circle of dumb.

TL'DR: Caught 2 players on Balmung server, outside of Fallgourd Float around 2:30pm EST, teleport-farm hacking Banemite mobs like there was no tommorow. Towards end of video, they also appeared to be speed hacking with a much higher run speed than sprint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-i2bX4OcZ8

Yep that is the same one I was talking about.

[Hvinire]

Hello,

We have a firm understanding of the current RMT (real money traders)/cheating situation, and while we are working to implement countermeasures, it is true that we are sometimes reacting one step behind. While we cannot announce specifics of what we have planned, I do want to let you know that the development team and the Special Task Force (STF) are working closely together to implement measures to catch cheaters. We were able to catch some large scale RMT groups due to this.

Also, because it's the RMT and cheaters who strike first, the operations team can usually be thought of as reacting one step behind. However, as players have been saying, we agree that we should be finding and patching these holes from the start.

However, we will always be investigating, tracking down cheaters, and punishing them.

While we do not respond to your RMT reports, all of the information we receive is reviewed by the development team and STF and everyone on the team is extremely appreciative of your efforts. We apologize for the frustrations and inconveniences caused by the RMT and cheaters, and we will be working hard to catch them.

We appreciate your information about RMT you encounter on the forum, but please make sure not to include the URLs and specific cheating methods in your post. We ask that you please incude them in your reports instead.

[Antanias]

While we do not respond to your RMT reports...

Wait, what?

[TyloRime]

Please, for the love of all that is both Holy and Ultima, make reporting them easier.

[Onolock]

OMG this is why I couldnt find diremites there. I thought Gamerscape was trolling me on the locations. Thats sad, I had no choice but to buy some in the market boards which were expensive.

This is ruining the game, I cant even level my weaver properly.

Fleece is just as bad....camped and botted 24/7 it seems on my server. Prices are at about 400 per for normal, 1200 or more for HQ.

[Cairdeas]

Wait, what?

He means that they don't send you a response saying "We're looking into it." he's currently giving you a blanket statement that they are looking into it.