Quote Originally Posted by LaughingBanana View Post
How does this work exactly? The bots I mean. I'm always been curious about it. I saw them a couple of times (names like ahsgksdfksdfksdfbsdkfbsdkbf or something, with "Wanderer" title), standing at the same spot, teleporting... what does these bots even do when they do that? What advantages does the person using them are gaining for using them like that?
These are Gil farms. I’ll refrain from posting the common countries these are run in, but it’s fairly well known.
Anyway, they simply script a bunch of accounts to automate themselves to 50 and then from the looks of it, farm Amdapor Keep over and over again. It’s one if the earliest level 50 dungeons, can be spammed 100ish times a day per character (there’s a global daily limit), and generates gil from kills.
There’s been a number of complaints about the wait times to get into AK, it’s real bad for legitimate players.

Anyway, if you ever see someone RMT advertising in the starting cities, these gibberish bots is where all the gil comes from. Usually.
There’s other even worse ways to get gil but this at least explains the flock of poshacking bots you see.

The only real way to stop it is to make it unprofitable by not buying gil. I highly doubt they even legitimately pay for the hundreds if XIV jets needed for each character. It’s likely stolen CC info. So there’s no real monetary loss when they get banned, they just redo it all. There’s no effort from a human, it’s all automated. Until people stop buying gil (what are they even buying with it?) they’ll probably never stop farming.