Okay now the botting is getting a little out of hand...

[SamSmoot]

What are all the ones around the Aetherite doing? Just spamming RMT services?

[Kuroka]

Hm ok so its that bad on eu server too.Out of curiosity what time of day is this happening?

basically now or at least the 40 min ago i made that screenshot. i saw many bots but usually clipped into each other... never this... id say demonstration of power?

Its kinda, ya know, the point where GM have to be allowed to act... and some com reps should say smt... inv yoshi here right now to see that, might help lol

[TonberryP]

It's still like that even now, I have never seen so many. Right now it's 5:17 pm CST

[Saintly]

Every-time i saw one these ad spamming bots with names like "Fsdfscvsd Tasfdvcx" i though, why dont they do anything about it?
But the pic you posted, wow, they really dont give a boiling f.

[Lilseph]

[Metalwrath]

basically now or at least the 40 min ago i made that screenshot. i saw many bots but usually clipped into each other... never this... id say demonstration of power?

Its kinda, ya know, the point where GM have to be allowed to act... and some com reps should say smt... inv yoshi here right now to see that, might help lol

Yeah i logged on to check myself and investigate.So ive seen some thaumaturge bots running around central thal.Seen them run through mountains.
Limsea you dont see any bots really being made.Im guessing the bots have no use of the jobs there.Grindadia seems to have the most bots.Trying to investigate where all these archers are farming.
ive heard rumors of them 4 manning dungeons?

[Tanama]

This is madness!

[Dustytome]

What are all the ones around the Aetherite doing? Just spamming RMT services?

Those are their army of gil makers ramping up to level and grind out the gil to sell. They'll speed through the levels and then start spamming lvl 50 dungeons, gradually pooling gil through an fc chest to be sold off to some [insert not nice words here] person that is helping fund both the continued spam and the lockdown on zones/dungeons.

[Kaiserdrache]

They could do somthing about bit in a very simple but effective way, all those retards that use bots for rmt reasons would intstantly have no reason to exist anymore, if the game would give the player full complete power over deciding

- add the feature of a customizable chat filter into which players can add words, that if they get written by someone in chat, then gets everything they said not shown to you
- Disable trial accounts completely from using any chat, you want to chat? Buy the whole game first!
- Give players the option that in general all chat gets blocked from others, if a person is not either your frriend, guild member or group member
- Add Phasing to the towns, that updates the instances of the towns based on characters MSQ progression, bots dont play the games story, so if they never progress, this one here is the poo for the flies that turns into a death trap, becaus, everyone that will be in a town of absolute zero msq progression will most likely be a rmt botter/ cheating farm bot, making it easy to detect them.


All this together should be a powerful help for real players to stop it from getting disturbed by rmt spammers

[TheMightyMollusk]

- Disable trial accounts completely from using any chat, you want to chat? Buy the whole game first!

RMT bots do use full accounts. Otherwise they couldn't actually give their gil to the buyer. They're usually bought with stolen credit info or fraudulent cards, but that doesn't really help us.