STOP THE BOTS!

[Archon_Diabolos]

Is this post supposed to be about you not finding anyone to party with? Someone using a bot will probably end up on wrong side of the ban hammer, in which case they still wont be able to play with you.

Maybe start your own party finder group would be a better solution or perhaps join a more active FC?

[Mensworth]

Is this post supposed to be about you not finding anyone to party with? Someone using a bot will probably end up on wrong side of the ban hammer, in which case they still wont be able to play with you.

Maybe start your own party finder group would be a better solution or perhaps join a more active FC?

No this post is about bot affecting the gameplay of a game I am paying for. I didnt just watch someone for 5 mins and say BOT. I have been watching for weeks and I have been reporting people who I know are bots. I even has some friends who told me certain people have admitted to botting the hell out of stuff it makes it easy.

Now I do make most of my own parties I even teach end game parties. So please if you are here just to blindly defend bots then leave. Read it all and do your own research as well. Since you are hyperion take a hour or 2 to watch all the players in Northern Thanalan since thats one of the easy spots to find them.

[Archon_Diabolos]

No this post is about bot affecting the gameplay of a game I am paying for. I didnt just watch someone for 5 mins and say BOT. I have been watching for weeks and I have been reporting people who I know are bots. I even has some friends who told me certain people have admitted to botting the hell out of stuff it makes it easy.

Now I do make most of my own parties I even teach end game parties. So please if you are here just to blindly defend bots then leave. Read it all and do your own research as well. Since you are hyperion take a hour or 2 to watch all the players in Northern Thanalan since thats one of the easy spots to find them.

Your choosing to watch people bot. You are not a hall monitor. Report and move on man.

[DragonFlyy]

Bans come in waves. You gotta just report and move on. Eventually it will be researched and taken care of. Just realize that for every report you send in, the get thousands more probably every minute. They have to filter through those and find the actual bots/rmt as apposed to the people that get reported because someone thinks they are a bot. It will happen, just takes time.

[Rex]

...You kinda lost me at the second paragraph.

...Yeah. sounds to me he's confusing bots with those poor people who lost their souls to the atma / novus grinds.

[kidvideo]

Ahh... well, a quick google search did come up with a fate/combat bot. So i might be included to believe this could actually be happening.

Don't bot kids.

[NyneAlexander]

...Yeah. sounds to me he's confusing bots with those poor people who lost their souls to the atma / novus grinds.

Or he's identifying people who have sold their souls to botting because of the atma/novus grind. I know the thought of botting didn't really cross my mind until the RNG fate-fest. It would also explain why totally legit seeming accounts are botting now. And like KidVideo said: A simple google search will list a few very simple to use combat/fate bots (that are also capable of DoH/DoL). Just look for yourself. I'd do a LMGTFY but i'm pretty sure linking to any website that promotes 3rd party tools is against the TOS.

[shrek]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-%28Jun.-19%29

Just report it when you found, they can tell which are bot and not.

[Xieveral]

The bot infestation on my server has gotten bad lately. There's always a group of black mage clones at the city aetherytes or the Nald and Thal gates of Ul'dah and just yesterday I saw this near the mun-tuy cellars. This is about half the group that was there initially, the rest teleported elsewhere before I took the screenshot.



There's so many and in between the time they've been reported and the time they get banned, they've already done their damage and started a new crop of bots. It doesn't seem worth the trouble for players to keep up with reports.

[Orophin]

I've personally witnessed someone using a bot for Alexandrite farming. They were in Middle La Noscea and as soon as a FATE would spawn, they'd mount up and take the longest possible path every time. (most people would jump down to the western half of the map, this person took the ramp down EVERY time) There were also other little things you could tell they were using a bot, such as if they were in combat and another FATE spawned, they would just stand there until the mob was killed. (either their chocobo or another PC would have to kill it for them to move onto the FATE, but they wouldn't personally do anything to try to kill the mob or get out of combat)

I'm not going to go as far as to say it's ruining my gaming experience, but it is pretty saddening. I've ran into other people that use bots to spiritbond by standing in out of the way places and obviously botting, since their character just sits in one spot spinning in circles until a mob spawns. I just report them and move on, but that same person is still in game so it's a bit disheartening.