Being Called A Botter

[luciferbelmont]

Yes because believing a guys one-sided story that doesn't seem to add up while everyone's just playing Sherlocke Holme's with the tiny bit of information
given we're botters. No idea where being a Elitist comes from in any of this.

Yes let's pretend Elitism in FFXIV doesn't exist

[Gardes]

Yes let's pretend Elitism in FFXIV doesn't exist

So what, the justice system is elitist? What are you, some kind of anarchist? No wonder some people who write against coil posts like a stormfront poster.

[AdamFyi]

Yes let's pretend Elitism in FFXIV doesn't exist

Elitism goes both ways - and you're sounding quite elitist yourself. Just saying.

[Shneibel]

since when a bot talk to other ppl and put up a PF ? afaik the botter usually use 2nd character and not their main when they bot or I am behind the time with old info ?

[AdamFyi]

since when a bot talk to other ppl and put up a PF ? afaik the botter usually use 2nd character and not their main when they bot or I am behind the time with old info ?

I've seen and reported mains that use bots for things such as Fate grinding for levelling purposes or atmas, and also for material farming. Some people are risk takers. The AFK symbol makes it obvious though.

[Shneibel]

I've seen and reported mains that use bots for things such as Fate grinding for levelling purposes or atmas, and also for material farming. Some people are risk takers. The AFK symbol makes it obvious though.

guess I should stop assume the bot character are alt char. About the risk part, in Excalibur there is a well know botter character, and despite after multi reports, they are still there ! (they had been there for a long time)

[StrejdaTom]

I've seen and reported mains that use bots for things such as Fate grinding for levelling purposes or atmas, and also for material farming. Some people are risk takers. The AFK symbol makes it obvious though.

No it doesn't, you can put on afk symbol manually via search info editing and it won't turn off automaticaly, atleast for me it worked that way, when I wanted to stay afk (because one person bothered me, not via tell but via fc chat) and I was still able to do things (not talking about trials, that would make obvious that I wasn't afk even with afk symbol). So using AFK symbol as a way to tell if person is bot or not is not 100% useful.

[AdamFyi]

No it doesn't, you can put on afk symbol manually via search info editing and it won't turn off automaticaly, atleast for me it worked that way, when I wanted to stay afk (because one person bothered me, not via tell but via fc chat) and I was still able to do things (not talking about trials, that would make obvious that I wasn't afk even with afk symbol). So using AFK symbol as a way to tell if person is bot or not is not 100% useful.

After reading this, I hopped onto the game decided to try out your method to see if you were right. NOPE. The moment you interact with the client in any way (such as pressing any key on the keyboard, or tilting the joystick on gamepads), the game slaps you out of "away from keyboard" and into "online" status. I'm curious as to what you're referring to. Are you sure you're not confusing the "busy" status for the "away from keyboard" status? We're not talking about someone just standing there in Mor Dhona, mind you - someone with the AFK symbol, running around the map and doing actions such as completing FATEs and gathering from nodes. Actual bots.

[Aeyis]

But you know what I do see on these forums a lot? People bashing people for no reason other than to make it seem like they are superior. So what it didn't happen to you , it happened to the OP and the only mistake he made was thinking he was gonna get mature answers from these forums. Come on people. And OP, I'm sorry that happened to you.

Come on now. Based on the wording of the OP, and his subsequent posts, its pretty obvious the thread was made for attention seeking. Not to argue an actual point. ''bashing'' you say? The OP is full of holes. It's a one 100% one-sided story that just doesn't make much sense.

It would be stranger if noone questioned it.

[Gillionaire]

someone with the AFK symbol, running around the map and doing actions such as completing FATEs and gathering from nodes. Actual bots.

Yep, I don't think there's a setting in ff14 to disable the auto clear afk thing when moving.. I think WoW has it.

But in ff14, such option doesn't exist (surprise! surprise!)

So, people that are afk and moving around (not auto-run) are definitely bots.

Which makes me wonder, if the game can differentiate the two different kinds of actions, why are they having so much trouble figuring it out?