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

[Bryan_Weary1]

The first picture kinda looks like some horror film, lol

The Bots(parody of The Birds).

[ICountFrom0]

Hey whatever happened to those two new Mods that we were blindly congratulating a month or two back?? Oh right, they're gone already. Maybe they can relay our concerns to the dev team since English seems non-existent on their end. But that's just me reaching. Carry on.

Oh, I pointed out that the most important part of the job would be them trying to pretend that bots where not an issue, and the moment they showed any sympathy for the plight of the average person trying to play they'd be fired.

... and I don't see them anywhere, oh well, looks like they failed to be blind enough.

They cannot do anything. It would be pointless to try to go one by one.

Truth is, both things have to be done. Both special task force members that try to prevent the bots from getting on, and clean up after, AND GM's that are allowed to take action. Picture if just one was sitting at the GC chest, where the bots deposit things, and put anybody who was accessing it from "clipped into the wall" into a time out box.

do you have any actual proof to this? Or are you just making stuff up?

As I said, I've seen it done twice now. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find the last two times it happened, but one of them has a video of ul dah being completely unable to be entered on a server for 10 minutes.

[stanrir]

Thankfully Faerie isn't this bad, atleast from what I have seen. This is stupid though Square needs to really start buckling down on this instead of some of the other more pointless things they are addressing

[Plastic_Fork]

Yeah, it's getting beyond ridiculous. On Exodus, they're everywhere. Every major town, every small town. Blatant, in front of everyone. In a span of maybe 30 minutes, I've seen no less than 100 bots run through this same quest NPC in Costa del Sol. It's so bad, they're forming their own guilds full of bots. I'm so glad I have to wait for a queue every time I log in because at any given time, there's 45,000 bots on my server clogging up the population. And the incessant bot advertisements in all major cities is super annoying.

These bot guilds full of bots were just made today.







Then the usual. They run through the quest, jump through the ground, or just flat out vanish. Or in the case of the bots where I witnessed it, they literally instant slide to each quest objective. Literally slide super fast from one point to the next. No running or walking. And then vanish. Only to appear out of thin air at the next quest objective 100 yards away. Then jump through the stone pillar next to me through the ground.

[Lalarrific]

Thankfully Faerie isn't this bad, atleast from what I have seen. This is stupid though Square needs to really start buckling down on this instead of some of the other more pointless things they are addressing

Nah, Faerie is getting bad too.

[Xiomara]

and because you just "named and shamed", you're probably going to get suspended, but the bots will remain wild, pure and forever free.

[Melichoir]

You know, I commented on this bot nonsense a few weeks back.

Got to admit I was wrong.

Yeah, this is an issue if you can have this many bots running around in hte open doing things. This is almost appearing worse than F2P MMOs.

[ElazulHP]

Make Gil non-tradeable and trigger mandantory STF research on large Gil purchase on the MB. Sacrifices must be made for the good of the community.

[Melichoir]

Make Gil non-tradeable and trigger mandantory STF research on large Gil purchase on the MB. Sacrifices must be made for the good of the community.

Would be simpler to trigger an investigation when the gil balance of an account rapidly changes in a very short period of time. As a point, if you jump up 2 million gil in the space of 24 hours, that should trigger a quick look at how that was achieved. Targetting players is one thing, but if you want to stop this, you need to hit the gil banks - The NPCs which hold the gil. Having hte botters pool their gil and then crack that account before they can use it would make it cost innefficient to farm Gil.

[Dirwen]

Would be simpler to trigger an investigation when the gil balance of an account rapidly changes in a very short period of time. As a point, if you jump up 2 million gil in the space of 24 hours, that should trigger a quick look at how that was achieved. Targetting players is one thing, but if you want to stop this, you need to hit the gil banks - The NPCs which hold the gil. Having hte botters pool their gil and then crack that account before they can use it would make it cost innefficient to farm Gil.

2mil is too little I get that much from selling a single nidhogg scale before. I'm assuming gil buyers purchase in large amount like 5mil+ otherwise what is the point as gil is easy to get.