botting.

[Nayt]

^ You can easily make a second chat window and filter out everything but tells, you could also enable tell to make a sounds so it alerts you when you are sent a message.

BTW bots could potentially get much much worse when addons are added ..

Why would anyone make that change, just to avoid being thrown in jail?

It's not so much the fact that I can do it, as much as why should I have to?

What I want to say is, why is being non-responsive grounds for being accused of botting?

[Jinko]

Why would anyone make that change, just to avoid being thrown in jail?

It's not so much the fact that I can do it, as much as why should I have to?

What I want to say is, why is being non-responsive grounds for being accused of botting?

I know what you are getting at, but how else would they determine you are botting or not.

The only other choice is to do what WoW does and detect 3rd party software, this is much harder to do and generally doesn't work either as there is always ways for players to get round these kinds of systems.

Fact is botting will always exist as will RMT.

How about I turn this arguement on its head just for fun lol, how about a person who uses a bot and sits at his/her computer whilst it is running, is this any different that spamming enter, is this any different than using a controller with turbo stuck on ?

[Crica]

a person who uses a bot and sits at his/her computer whilst it is running, is this any different that spamming enter, is this any different than using a controller with turbo stuck on ?

Nope - no difference at all.

In both cases, a machine is playing the game instead of the person.

Do I mind if a machine plays instead of a person?

As long as it doesn't affect my gaming.

Whatever floats your boat.

Your money, your time.

[Mirh]

What I want to say is, why is being non-responsive grounds for being accused of botting?

It does have to be said this "no speaky lots of banny" policy existed in FFXI and WoW and pretty much any other MMO. All the GM can do is port out to you invisible and watch you for a time and make assumptions.

I doubt you'll get banned for being unresponsive in FFXIV right now, though. That's like inviting someone(1) to your birthday party and making them leave because they ate some of your cake.