Being Called A Botter

[KyteStones]

Now reacting like this just makes you sound paranoid! I wonder what else people have said to you that you mistake as being harassment......

"Wow, you've been farming these fates for hours man!"

"SHUT UP! IM NOT BOTTING!!"

People react different ways when they are upset. I'm upset and I had a reaction to a post. I'm human, I can't change that. I was in a party with my wife most of the time, and during the late late hours of the night during a weekday there's pretty much no one on and struggle through the fates solo or with 1 or 2 other people. I haven't even seen a leveling bot to be brutally honest. the people in the fates with me are not just standing there. they dodge AoE, they do full rotations, etc. Only farming bots is what I've seen and reported.

I think that's why some of us feel this story is a little off.

OP:
It is possible that mob mentality took over in Coerthas that day. People hate bots. HATE. If there was anything you were doing that really looked like a computer was running the character instead of a person, folks gonna be all up in your shit. (I don't mind FATE grinding. Did it quite a bit yesterday since I wasn't well enough to dungeon, but I party up with FC mates or join PFs for this. You get more exp since mobs killed by party members counts for you, why didn't you do this? Would've stopped the bot argument before it started... )

But to say you're just gonna let it go while yet continuing to post here.... =_=

You'd think if i decline someones trade window, say "wtf is your problem" while other people also do it to me blows my mind. If this is how you people are checking to see if actual levelers are bots then you're ruinging that players experience. Even reporting because they don't respond to /tells. What if I'm on a controller and don't use a keyboard? I literally just learned how to use the [TAB] #2, #1 for the translated hello. I never knew how to use that stuff because I only talk in Raidcall. Hardly ever type unless I'm bored out of my mind.


To the people who understand: thank you. your words of encouragement helps but I think I'm going to take a few days off. No sense in getting back on right now. I do have the people blacklisted but I just don't want to hear that /tell sound if it's more people bothering me.

To the people who don't and think my story is off: I have been an active member in the game since 1.0. I have paid a ton of money with sub services etc. I have dedicated more time into this game than any other because honestly no MMO compares to it. Even 1.0 was better than any other MMO I've played. If I'm a botter, I wouldn't come posting on the forums talking about it, risking me losing my account. Common sense is that would be just plain stupid. I came here fully knowing how a majority of the forum is "you deserved it" kind of attitude, which is why I'm ignore most of your posts who don't have the common sense to figure that out.

Thank you to everyone who posted. Yes, even the posts that were trying to discredit my OP. You have confirmed for me that it's just the people being spiteful and have more time on their hands to bother me than to actually play the game.

[Sadana]

You'd think if i decline someones trade window, say "wtf is your problem"

I, for one, would have definitely said "Oops! Sorry man." and moved on. I'll stick with my thought of mob mentality being in effect that day and that's kinda scary. o.o

[Arkista]

Report them! There are some sorry people that play. They have nothing better to do than to accuse people of botting. And how the hell do you bot fates? Didn't think that was a thing. I've seen plenty of level 50 miner bot.

I've been accused a few times cause, I'll ignore the hell out of people while I'm mining. Accuse me all you want, I'm on PS4..... Just the other day there were some people accusing someone for botting TT at the indolent guy, cause he wouldn't respond to them, and that he never got up to go piss.

[Fated]

I don't believe the story at all. However, on the off chance that it's actually true, server transferring probably won't make much of a difference.

[StrejdaTom]

The funny part about this is, that normal bot wouldn't care, if people acused him of botting and stopped partying up with him. Normal bots farm fleece etc. and don't do trials.
But in order to make game botless and more comfortable for normal players, people are becoming idi*ts and start hunting normal players.

Something goes off with this story? In my FC I know people who are playing for atleast 6 months and never write because they have gamepad and they just don't like the way writing with gamepad works, they are often turned to busy or afk (if you turn afk off manualy it won't turn off automaticaly) because of bots and they play a lot. So what now? Should I report them all and spam every linkshell that they are bots? According to what I have read here, I should.

Be calm OP, you have my support and support of many other sane persons. Find a friendly FC and a few friendly statics and don't care about what people thinks. If you haven't used bot you won't get banned.

[TouchandFeel]

From what I can gather from what has been said, I would say that the people obviously know that you are not a botting and are just trolling you and getting their buddies to do it too.

The question is then, why are they doing it?

While entirely possible that they are just randomly being jerks, I find there is usually more to it than that.

Reading through the thread, you came off sort of aggressively reactionary, at least to me and apparently some others. It may be that it was this attitude that come across to someone in-game which pissed them off and so they started a personal crusade to harass you.

This doesn't put them in the right and you should report harassment, but I suggest maybe reflecting on your reactions and how you interact with others as it could potentially be a catalyst for such altercations.
Making excuses such as "I'm human, so its okay" personally don't hold water IMO. Yes people are human, yes they will slip up and make mistakes but being human also means that you have the ability to learn, think and control your actions. Just because you are human and have an emotion, doesn't mean you can't control or dictate how you act upon that emotion.
To be fair though, if those harassing you are doing so because something you said pissed them off, they are just as guilty of this.

Anyways, that's my opinion on all of this and some potential food for thought.

[KyteStones]

The funny part about this is, that normal bot wouldn't care, if people acused him of botting and stopped partying up with him. Normal bots farm fleece etc. and don't do trials.
But in order to make game botless and more comfortable for normal players, people are becoming idi*ts and start hunting normal players.

Something goes off with this story? In my FC I know people who are playing for atleast 6 months and never write because they have gamepad and they just don't like the way writing with gamepad works, they are often turned to busy or afk (if you turn afk off manualy it won't turn off automaticaly) because of bots and they play a lot. So what now? Should I report them all and spam every linkshell that they are bots? According to what I have read here, I should.


Be calm OP, you have my support and support of many other sane persons. Find a friendly FC and a few friendly statics and don't care about what people thinks. If you haven't used bot you won't get banned.

Thank you for the support, your message was very nice. I do have a Fc with my friends so it's fun, and idk, i guess the fact they wouldn't leave me alone cause me to see refuge here i suppose. Call it running away with my tail between my legs, I'm aware that's what this was for me.

From what I can gather from what has been said, I would say that the people obviously know that you are not a botting and are just trolling you and getting their buddies to do it too.

The question is then, why are they doing it?

While entirely possible that they are just randomly being jerks, I find there is usually more to it than that.

Reading through the thread, you came off sort of aggressively reactionary, at least to me and apparently some others. It may be that it was this attitude that come across to someone in-game which pissed them off and so they started a personal crusade to harass you.

This doesn't put them in the right and you should report harassment, but I suggest maybe reflecting on your reactions and how you interact with others as it could potentially be a catalyst for such altercations.
Making excuses such as "I'm human, so its okay" personally don't hold water IMO. Yes people are human, yes they will slip up and make mistakes but being human also means that you have the ability to learn, think and control your actions. Just because you are human and have an emotion, doesn't mean you can't control or dictate how you act upon that emotion.
To be fair though, if those harassing you are doing so because something you said pissed them off, they are just as guilty of this.

Anyways, that's my opinion on all of this and some potential food for thought.

Honestly the only thing I could have thought of that would have pissed someone off was the fact that i ran through the hunt spawn by accident, it triggered, I died but nothing happened right away or for a full 3 hours later. I was typing to my FC friends and the auto run just took me in. I think it was a hunt? it was a spawn I've never seen before since I don't do the hunts and never cared for them. If it was something important and I caused it to fail, then i can understand why I'm being messed with but if thats the case, someone could have filled me in saying why did you do that, now (insert what happened after I triggered it) doesnt work or something.

[TouchandFeel]

^^^
Hunts don't agro unless you do something to them, so that was most likely not the case.
Perhaps it was responding to someone checking if you were a bot by initiating a trade with something along the lines of "WTF is your problem". While many would just be like " whatever", that could potentially put someone off.

People in the game have their pitchforks and torches at the ready for anything that they could perceive as potential rmt or botting, unless they themselves are doing it *cough*wedding bands *cough*. Because of this people make stupid assumptions such as this person is mining a lot, they must be a bot! In such instances people will do things such as send tells or initiate trades to see if the player reacts, with the assumption that if they do not make a discernible human response they most likely are a bot and should be reported. Its happened to me while grinding gathering and I usually just respond with a "yes, did you need something?", in which case they tend to just go away. Responding in an aggressive manner can make someone hot under the collar and make them want to harass you.

[Gumiho]

You are welcome in my server, cactuar

[Charisma]

I doubt anyone found you this special to stalk you around this short amount of time to find out you are a bot.. lol
Sorry i just cant believe this story.