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

[AngelCheese77]

I feel for you OP.

It has gone done some on Mateus, but I used to park my character, turn on Camtasia, and record tons of bots in Gridania by the Twin Adder NPC in the HQ there. And yet ... nothing. Heck, I still have my blacklist full of bots and none have been deleted. So I'm assuming they "delete" the bots by just closing accounts but not deleting the characters ... which is stupid.

[Hasrat]

So I'm assuming they "delete" the bots by just closing accounts but not deleting the characters ... which is stupid.

How so? If they fully deleted the characters, it would just open up the names to be reused. It doesn't truly hinder them more than a few moments, but at least it means they can't use the same names on repeat.

[KisaiTenshi]

How so? If they fully deleted the characters, it would just open up the names to be reused. It doesn't truly hinder them more than a few moments, but at least it means they can't use the same names on repeat.

The "random name" is how they used to do it.

Speculation is that SE suspends the accounts, but doesn't delete the characters, that's why the census shows hyur midlander's as the most common player by millions.

From a technical perspective, they can't delete characters because it would result in the user id number getting recycled, and thus bots end up taking over "deleted" character slots in peoples friends lists and linkshells. SE should still mark the characters as "deleted" or suspended so the lodestone doesn't fill up with these things.