What is being doing against botters?

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https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...87766240bee683

We're getting a post like this roughly every week on the Lodestone.

To quote from the last one (the one I linked):

Time Period: Jun. 7, 2018 to Jun. 13, 2018

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 3,334
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
　・Accounts terminated: 4
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 16
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 409

And as far as I can tell those are typical numbers - which shows only what other people already stated: They cant ban as fast as those people recreate accounts.
Its like my dad loves to say: "Kill one fly and seven come to the funeral" (its a german saying, not sure how well it translates, but you get the idea...)
So while there is stuff being done, this isnt something they can get rid off completly, without shutting off servers from character creation (Hello, Balmung!).

If its any consolation: Since they've locked HW and SB areas behind 200+ hours of mainstory, you see basically no bots there - except for "legit" people using a bot to gather mats, I guess... but no RMT-spam in Ishgard or Kugane, no people teleporting in Rubysea...

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So while there is stuff being done, this isnt something they can get rid off completly, without shutting off servers from character creation (Hello, Balmung!).
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A fact that was a large factor in my moving to Balmung back when I did...
I had to keep tells in a seperate chat tab and the sound off just to function on another server. (there wasn't context menu reporting of rmt at the time...)


While the lack of new players is a bit of a con, I do enjoy there being practically no RMT on Balmung.