Being Called A Botter

[KyteStones]

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 knowwhat 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.

I do know how botters run and get stuck etc. I've seen many of them farming shards since launch, and coming from another server they are in the same place with same jibberish face slammed on the keyboard names but never seen fate botters. I auto run on my mount. I'm not made of money so I only use the teleport when the Return is off cool down or Svarra popped. Again, I guess I was rude during the whole "opening trade menu with me mid fate" thing but come on, it was one after the other I couldn't even avoid the AoE causing me deaths and unwanted repair costs. I don't see how me autorunning fate to fate matters though... who holds down the "W" key or up on the joystick all the time.. I use autorun in dungeons because I'm that lazy.

Besides, had I been doing something wrong, again, I would have abandoned this thread in an instant doubt sparked (which I knew there would be) and I wouldn't be replying to everyone still. It's just very upsetting to me and I suppose I need to grow a pair and just man up with my emotions. It's a game I know but sometimes things just ugh.

As for going to CPP to level, when I go over there my gear was in no way strong enough to keep me a float. Getting kicked out of fate parties for having crap gear and dying all the time is no way to go. I never saved the leveling gear from my other classes because I had everything at 50 when the ninja came out that i converted all my other stuff to materia to sell on the server that I transferred to since I couldn't bring 2 mil only 1mil so it was all converted to sellables.

[Sadana]

who holds down the "W" key or up on the joystick all the time.. I use autorun in dungeons because I'm that lazy.

I do. :/ I hate auto-run.

As for going to CPP to level, when I go over there my gear was in no way strong enough to keep me a float. Getting kicked out of fate parties for having crap gear and dying all the time is no way to go.

That's a bit weird. I'll go FATE grind in N Than in full crafting gear without problem. Plus, it's not like I'm the only one. You, your wife, and your two chocobos and you should have 0 problems. :/ At this point, your FC should've lept to your defense. Like someone from my FC mentioned recently, they're like your extended family. ^^

[KyteStones]

I do. :/ I hate auto-run.




That's a bit weird. I'll go FATE grind in N Than in full crafting gear without problem. Plus, it's not like I'm the only one. You, your wife, and your two chocobos and you should have 0 problems. :/ At this point, your FC should've lept to your defense. Like someone from my FC mentioned recently, they're like your extended family. ^^

I like to charge in there and try to claim all that I can.. and to be honest... I almost never have my chocobo out because i forget that it's a thing I can do. I never got it past rank 3 i think. Choco regen was so bad i figured that they were just there to be a tank until it died to buy you some time to try and take the add or boss down. I hate playing the safe game and at level 45 in coetheras i can run from fate to fate just beating the crap outta stuff and do what looks like real damage unlike in CPP.

[Sadana]

I like to charge in there and try to claim all that I can.. and to be honest... I almost never have my chocobo out because i forget that it's a thing I can do. I never got it past rank 3 i think. Choco regen was so bad i figured that they were just there to be a tank until it died to buy you some time to try and take the add or boss down. I hate playing the safe game and at level 45 in coetheras i can run from fate to fate just beating the crap outta stuff and do what looks like real damage unlike in CPP.

Your healer bird can keep your ass alive. :/ Trust me, it's cures are real useful for FATE grinding. And if you hate playing safe game... why were you staying in Coerthas? :/

eta: And if you're in a party with others' chocobos, having 3 or 4 choco regens slapped on you makes you godly. XD

[Kerwin]

If your not guilty and you come to the forums to complain, that's not what you should do for being harassed.

If you guilty and you come to the forums to complain, you are an attention seeker looking to quell your bottling guilt.

Either way, coming to the forums about this topic will bring no good from it.

[KyteStones]

If your not guilty and you come to the forums to complain, that's not what you should do for being harassed.

If you guilty and you come to the forums to complain, you are an attention seeker looking to quell your bottling guilt.

Either way, coming to the forums about this topic will bring no good from it.

I came here in hopes of hearing from other people who have had an issue similar to this. Blacklisting and reporting in my opinion, have done no good for I have some people on my black list I know have done wrong, have screen shots, have video I've recorded and there they are, running around limsa like nothing ever happened, but i digress. Thank you for the post though.

I guess in a way you were right. i am seeking attention. Attention on if this is something normal now with all the bots and rmts.

[ShadowYomi]

I think the most logical answer is that you probably completed a fate they needed and they may have shouted to hold the fate and you didn't. Not trying to pick a side but I have seen arguements over people missing fates for books.

[Radkat]

We are all only hearing one side of the story. We need to hear from those who were there at the time to share their side of the story. I do agree all this sounds suspicious. Lots of people do fates with no problem, people also accidentally body pull hunts all the time. They don't get called out for botting just like that.

[Mugiawara]

Not many will have a story to tell because no one has been called a bot and harassed for 3 hours. You should of cleared the whole bot thing
by even responding back. Hunts, they don't even aggro unless you tagged first...You could of accidentally done that.
But no one knows 100% but you, the other people, and the great baby Jesus.
You should just get on with your life at this rate. If it's THAT bad, you can move servers.
I don't like reading one person side, and that's all we can base anything off on.
If anything I'll guess the accidental pull of a hunt, and there we go. Name and shame in hunts
are not unheard of but that bot part is weird lol. So yeah.

[Gillionaire]

Mmmmhm.

It's odd that they would even confront you thinking that you're a bot in the first place.
When I see a botter, I don't bother with it because I know I won't get a response back.

So, if all these people are sending you /tells they KNOW you're on the keyboard, otherwise, why would they even send you a /tell in the first place?

So this brings me to the point where people's suspicions arose.

Did people see your odd behavior on the day of the incident and suddenly decided that you're a bot? I don't think so.
People probably had suspicions of a botter for a few days, and when they found out that the person was playing, they probably found that the time to confront.

So, what this tell me is, there must've been a time frame where they tried the /trade, tried the /tell and you responded differently.

That's the only thing that would give me a confirmation. If somebody doesn't respond to /tells for hours on end while playing, and all of a sudden is replying to my /tells the next day saying he's not a bot etc.. That's what would confirm my suspicions.

Consistently being silent is less suspicious of being a bot, than somebody who's complete quiet one day, then chatty the next.