100's of level 25 botters teleporting from behind Twin Adders desk to Aetherye. Why?

[Iscah]

Say hello to the Limsa Gil Town Crier next time you're on Zalera. Same guy for weeks. He's been reported probably thousands of times.

Same actual guy, or just Interchangeable Hyur Marauder #583 after you reported #476 last week?

If they can’t (or won't) automatically block these accounts, they must be deleting them one-by-one as they are reported - but if it’s a computer program creating the accounts in the first place it’ll just keep spitting out replacements.

[DrWho2010]

as soon as one group of bots is banned, another group is created. as long as people buy gil there will be bots. and yes there are people who buy gil.

[Pastahnak]

The bot on my server selling Gil is so dated they're offering a bonus 15% if I can guess who will win the world cup, got my fingers crossed on France.

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure why they think it's more productive to just keep banning the gil farmers when they come back in the matter of a day when they could pool that time into finding a lasting solution.

The bots regularly abuse how enemy AI and LoS work in order to function, the former by abusing the fact that bosses will not reset even if they're being hit from a location they can't reach (Normal enemies outside dungeons DO have this implemented into their AI, so I'm not sure why it's not a universal thing), and the latter by hiding under the floor/in walls while still being able to interact with NPCs/objects without being seen (Usually) and also to kill enemies without being subject to their attacks.

Fixing either of those problems would severely hinder their ability to function if not stop them entirely.

[MuseTraveller]

One time I was in Ul'dah with my potato taking a pose ready to screenshot and I see this lvl 1 Hyur with sticking 6+ arms all in front of me, so I get startled like, holy crap what is this glitch!? I move camera to see it was bunch of bots stacked together ready to port somewhere. It was creepy view for sure. >_>;;

I've seen less gil sellers lately tho.

[Celef]

Still don't get why posting screens with names on it is forbiden, in cases like that, it would save everyone time as you would not need to report manually AND the task force would have most of the names on 1 singe screen oO

[Skivvy]

In another game I used to play, it was great fun to mess with bots as the game includes a collision physics (e.g. you can't just run through people, you can actually push/move them, etc).

You could easily find ones who were running a set path, so I liked to either block them with my mount, or you could even open a teleport and warp them somewhere completely random. Was good fun Now and then the GMs would actually come on "live" and make announcements about banning them on the spot. Granted, that was rare, but nice to see.

Sadly, they're just an eyesore in XIV.

[KisaiTenshi]

Still don't get why posting screens with names on it is forbiden, in cases like that, it would save everyone time as you would not need to report manually AND the task force would have most of the names on 1 singe screen oO

Because there is a remote possibility that you might be wrong and it would constitute harassment.

What I want is the ability to right click from the party search, player search, and FC window's "Suspect Automated Play (Bot, RMT)"

[Claviusnex]

Because there is a remote possibility that you might be wrong and it would constitute harassment.

What I want is the ability to right click from the party search, player search, and FC window's "Suspect Automated Play (Bot, RMT)"

There is no reason we shouldn't have right click report for anything that can be reported. The function could auto-fill the standard information so all the player has to do is complete the subject and description. I don't understand SE's reluctance to do this other than they don't want to be bothered with problems and would rather ignore them.

[ElazulHP]

I wish they muted them so they couldn't speak or shout once a certain number of people report them for RMT. Make it automated if you need to. Then ban them later en masse like usual.