Quote Originally Posted by Dustytome View Post
They can also check the placard consistently for hours/days without breaks. Might as well make it easier for actual players to see if something actually available.
But then they are easy to spot. Even if SE doesnt have right now any mechanism to spot this kind of bots it would be easy for them to make one, e.g. if a character does more than X amount of clicks in Y amount of time GM gets the notification and can easily check what is going on. Actually this is so easy to spot that no bots are using this actions anymore and i saw GM fighting all sorts of bots in other games (as FF isnt my 1st MMO). Other solution would be some random timer for checks with long pauses but then there is no point to run them and legitimate players are back in the "game" with same chance to grab the plot.