Regarding Bot-driven Gil Farmers

[Contrite13]

Hello this is my first post on the forums and would like to know if there is any other way to report botting gil farmers that have not had any actions taken against them. On my server Zalera there is a miner/botanist bot-driven. He has access to Heavensward and he farms ephemeral nodes around the clock. He use's Aetherial Reduction to make large amounts of wind,fire,lightning and earth crystals to sell on the market board. Due to this prices for crystals are down to 90 gil. They will even go down to 50 gil if other people try to compete with him. Most people think this is great because they are affordable and don't need to spend time farming them if they run out. But buying their crystals just supports the gil sellers and for people who work on so hard on their gathering class's and want to make gil can't because of this. It really stops gather's from making gil in the game. He also crashed the Adamantite ore market.

[Contrite13]

The reason i am bringing this to the forums is because i, and other gatherer's, have been reporting him for about 2 months now and no actions have been taken. Now he has unlocked the legendary nodes and has started appearing at smithsonite ore. This is a big concern to me because that market will now crash and people that put the time and effort to buy those folklore books will have wasted their time with a gil farmer bringing down the value. I am a 3 star crafter and devoted gatherer and i also sell a lot of items on the market board. I am not making a big deal about this because i am afraid it will effect my gil income, i am just sick of the bots and gil spammers on this server and hate how my friends who are also gathers come to me asking me what they can gather and sell to make gil but they cant because this bot is just flooding the market with crystals.

[Contrite13]

They don't even bother farming crystals because its not worth the time with the price that low. I still pay them to farm for me when i need stuff because i like to help others out, I just feel bad for all the other gatherers out there.
I hate to complain but this needs to end. Anyone have any advice on what to do about this or is it something that every server just needs to learn to live with? Only thing i can do is stand next to him and send him a trade to keep him from porting but i cant do that 24/7.

Thank you for your advice and information that is given.

[ExKage]

Remove name before you are banned. Edit gets around the character limit of the posts.

[Savanni]

I feel for you....honestly. However, SE is probably not going to do anything It's a less than ideal situation, but keep reporting this person.

[Cakekizyy]

Can you prove it's unattended botting?

[birdy_reene]

Can you prove it's unattended botting?

He literally does the bot skipping, from node to node in the area, and only truly teleports to leave the area.

Also, we have confirmed that he somehow even while out in the field can change market prices. Cause just to test this the other day, I fallowed him around out in Dravania and while he was farming, A friend of mine threw up a load of crystals for less than him, and immediately his prices changed while I still had eyes on him.

[Cakekizyy]

He literally does the bot skipping, from node to node in the area, and only truly teleports to leave the area.

That implies botting, doesn't prove it's unattended though.

[birdy_reene]

That implies botting, doesn't prove it's unattended though.

I edited my pervious post, but either way its still botting which is against the rules regardless of if its attended, he is exploiting.

[Cakekizyy]

I edited my pervious post, but either way its still botting which is against the rules regardless of if its attended, he is exploiting.

I thought they used same rules FF XI where was only illegal if not at keyboard.