Great, the bots have become smarter

[gintoki88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K9PqbtmcDk

Either this is a very bad glitch or the bots are now fully invisible. You cant see there name, or even target them, if you get you're cursor in the right spot it comes up as the magnifying glass but still cant click on them. Meaning they seemed to of found away to remove there character graphics and only have there coded entity present.

Cant even report those bastards now.

[Gogatsu390]

SE's response....
Bots? What bots? there are no bots in our game. Everything is perfect and fine with the world of Eorzea. Please return to your game and pretend that you saw nothing.

[Ronyx]

Haha bots should be categorized as a beastmen tribe and we should be able to wipe them out. LOL

[Aeiv]

I have one right near me now.

It appears they are not invisible, but rather under the map. This one is porting mob to mob killing stuff, but staying under the map. I was only able to target him by using the target-of-target unit frame of a mob it was attacking.

[Gamemako]

It appears they are not invisible, but rather under the map. This one is porting mob to mob killing stuff, but staying under the map. I was only able to target him by using the target-of-target unit frame of a mob it was attacking.

Yes, they are under the map, same as they have always been. This isn't new.

[ArchimedesVandiir]

I just thought of the perfect way to deal with bots. Now I myself hate anything to do with PVP, but for this I would make an exception. Open World PvP, you see a bot, kill it. I doubt very seriously they have a bot that could effectively defend itself from another player. Also works for those D-Bag players, who don't have the common courtesy to see you farming mobs and decide to start trying to steal kills. That is all.

[CatofNineTails]

have you made a video of someone gathering with stealth on? not sure you can select them either. might also explain why it takes so long between nodes since stealth is walking speed.

[Byrr]

I just thought of the perfect way to deal with bots. Now I myself hate anything to do with PVP, but for this I would make an exception. Open World PvP, you see a bot, kill it. I doubt very seriously they have a bot that could effectively defend itself from another player. Also works for those D-Bag players, who don't have the common courtesy to see you farming mobs and decide to start trying to steal kills. That is all.

when you consider these bots are below or behind terrain, how do you intend on getting line of sight on them to kill them?

[ArchimedesVandiir]

I'm referring to the ones you can see and target, the crazy invisible ones, no clue.

[Nemausus]

They're under the map in order to most likely stop people targeting/seeing their names to report them. Had a bit of a shock in Central Thanalan when this happened last week. Fortunately due to the geography in certain areas their names were visible above ground and I was able to report them.

Though last night in the Shroud an archer was under the map and appeared to be running through attacking every low-level creature it passed. If it weren't for the densely packed squirrels trying to attack through the ground while spinning by at velocity like a critter tornado you wouldn't know what was going on.