Need a better tool to report suspicious activity

[KageTokage]

I also noticed a ridiculous number of gil-farming bots today. I'd assume whatever group is responsible for them probably set up their script to mass-produce them across multiple servers simultaneously.

But yeah. The reporting functions are woefully inadequate, and I'm not sure they even read my reports when I haven't managed to get a single player banned out of the dozens of bots I've reported. The whole "No responses for reports" deal makes it impossible to know whether or not you provided enough information for them to take action or feel a matter is even worth investigating.

[KisaiTenshi]

I can't help but think of Blizzard's critical error reporting tool they use on their test servers. Critical error occurs and a report is instantly created that gives character information, location information, lists other characters in the same general location and what logged actions the characters were doing, etc.

The game client has all this information, all SE has to do is let players "snapshot" it. If there was an official API, one could simply track the last 5 minutes of players in the area in a round-robin log file, do some math to get a list of names, jobs and targets, and it would be easily done since actual players move.

I also noticed a ridiculous number of gil-farming bots today. I'd assume whatever group is responsible for them probably set up their script to mass-produce them across multiple servers simultaneously.

But yeah. The reporting functions are woefully inadequate, and I'm not sure they even read my reports when I haven't managed to get a single player banned out of the dozens of bots I've reported. The whole "No responses for reports" deal makes it impossible to know whether or not you provided enough information for them to take action or feel a matter is even worth investigating.

No response to reports is standard fare because otherwise players would know how to circumvent countermeasures in place. Even naming which bots are banned would provide ammo for botters to change their activities.

[Enlial]

No response to reports is standard fare because otherwise players would know how to circumvent countermeasures in place. Even naming which bots are banned would provide ammo for botters to change their activities.

Funny enough, I noticed that on the Chinese servers they actually do this in tandem with their "actions taken against illicit activities" reports (publish a list of who was banned, and why)

My favorite shaming system is the one arenanet uses (or used) with guildwars 2. They allow players to publicly appeal their bans on the forums. 99 times out of 100 the GM's absolutely tear their excuses to pieces with the evidence available. Its hilarious. And its glorious.

[Jijifli]

No response to reports is standard fare because otherwise players would know how to circumvent countermeasures in place. Even naming which bots are banned would provide ammo for botters to change their activities.

But it feels like they aren't doing anything anyways.

I've been seeing this same gatherer bot for most of Stormblood and they still haven't been removed yet. They're even using a teleport hack on a few of their different routes, and it's stupidly obvious. I guess teleporting's legal now.

[CuteMoonMoon]

But it feels like they aren't doing anything anyways.

I've been seeing this same gatherer bot for most of Stormblood and they still haven't been removed yet. They're even using a teleport hack on a few of their different routes, and it's stupidly obvious. I guess teleporting's legal now.

They Did but too slow to make this effective, Since i hit gathering job lvl70 at August 2017, they only Ban 2 Gathering BOTs that exist quite long time. 1st one is 8/2017-30/1/2018. then 2nd one is 7/2/2018 to 26/4/2018.(yeah i track the Gathering BOTs every day) and now things are getting worst... there are 2 BOTs gathering together and trying to report them but still no actions

[Alucard135]

I also noticed a ridiculous number of gil-farming bots today.

Tell me about it. I've seen over 12 lala bots teleporting through the grand company NPCs in New Gridania today.