Being Called A Botter

[Sadana]

Wait... you auto-ran into an A rank?

[myahele]

I think this just snowballed into a server-wide hate fest. What started out as curiosity to see if the person was botting ended up becoming a witch hunt. The OP responding to shouts (and staying there throughout) probably didn't help.

For those who say OP's story if fishy can you elaborate?

[ZanzhizExaverion]

Pretty sure you wouldn't be known as a notorious botter after one night of gameplay. There must be more story behind this than what you've told us.

[KyteStones]

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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.

I have no idea what the whole wedding band thing is to be brutally honest. I just married my soon-to-be wife in 2 weeks, in the game last Saturday and I haven't heard anything about this wedding band fiasco.

You are welcome in my server, cactuar

Thank you very much for the offer.

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.

It really hasn't been a short amount of time for the spamming continued into this morning as well from people no registered to FC's so I don;t know. It all stopped 9am and I was able to put together a peaceful party finder for levi ex with no issues so I don't know why this happened to me honesty. I'm not a massive dick in the game to anyone really.

Wait... you auto-ran into an A rank?

I ran through it yes and died. I know I didn't touch it but it did kill me.

Pretty sure you wouldn't be known as a notorious botter after one night of gameplay. There must be more story behind this than what you've told us.

not really much more to the story. what I've said is pretty much all I got to give. I havent booted anyone out of the FC since I got to the server, I've made quite a few friends and can;t really say I've been yelled at in dungeons or raids so I have no clue. If you can figure it out, there'd be a reward for ya maybe.

[Sadana]

I ran through it yes and died. I know I didn't touch it but it did kill me.

LAWLS... THAT'S why. omg... hahaha. You don't fuck with server hunts!! rofl! No wonder they got their torches & pitchforks. And if you replied with things like "what the fuck is wrong with you??!" That would only make them more angry. XDDDD

btw, B ranks are the only hunts that don't aggro on sight. Their symbol is blue. The A and S ranks have red/orange symbols and will squish you like grape if you come within range.

[KyteStones]

LAWLS... THAT'S why. omg... hahaha. You don't fuck with server hunts!! rofl! No wonder they got their torches & pitchforks. And if you replied with things like "what the fuck is wrong with you??!" That would only make them more angry. XDDDD

btw, B ranks are the only hunts that don't aggro on sight. Their symbol is blue. The A and S ranks have red/orange symbols and will squish you like grape if you come within range.

I only said "wtf" to the guys who kept opening the trade menu with me while I was trying to get the fates down. I mean, can someone fill me in what happens when the A rank is aggroed and the person who started it (apparently the only person there) dies, does it reset? Does it disappear? Why are the hunts so important to go out of someones way to make my game time hell.

[kehn]

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Hunts don't agro unless you do something to them, so that was most likely not the case.

only b ranks don't agro

[TouchandFeel]

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I've run past A ranks within touching distance many times and not been agroed by them, so that may be true but I've never dealt with it.
Besides if someone agros a hunt mark and dies and nobody else is there it doesn't mess it up, it just resets.

[Sadana]

I only said "wtf" to the guys who kept opening the trade menu with me while I was trying to get the fates down. I mean, can someone fill me in what happens when the A rank is aggroed and the person who started it (apparently the only person there) dies, does it reset? Does it disappear? Why are the hunts so important to go out of someones way to make my game time hell.

Yeah, it resets. But hunt aggro is a thing (and I don't mean the mobs' aggro >.>; ), you can find many many threads here on the OF about the drama associated with hunts. That you auto run from FATE to FATE can also come across as "bottish". I would say part of the reason those of us who were there are saying something is fishy with your story is cause we have spent nearly 2 years staring at bots and wishing them gone. We know what they look like and how the move in the game. To so aggressively target an actual player for being a bot... well, that is just REALLY strange... unless something about what you were doing was very akin to what bots do. (Yes, FATE bots were a thing.) *shakes head* I've been trying to visualize this myself... only thing I can come up with is that you were auto running into rocks and walls and shit (bot like behavior) or staying in one place and throwing shuriken at sheep over and over. Which you say you weren't doing. So, it just seems really weird that others who saw you would grief you so much.

At that point, my logic says that you may have pulled hate from folks out hunting for A/S ranks and that, if you replied in a "I've been doing FATEs here for 14 hours straight and I hate your face" tone, they may have reason to be angry at you. :/

And lastly... Coerthas? seriously? Land sakes, you should've moved on to North Than by level 45. I mean... Dark Devices, yo. :/ Folks on my server eat that shit up for those last few levels. Even during the offest of off peak hours, you can get a party for North Than FATEs.

[Sadana]

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I've run past A ranks within touching distance many times and not been agroed by them, so that may be true but I've never dealt with it.
Besides if someone agros a hunt mark and dies and nobody else is there it doesn't mess it up, it just resets.

Then you, sir, are the one true NIN in the game.