Ishgard Restoration phase 3 feedback thread

[Zenn]

Botting: Another highly discouraging thing. They've shown no acknowledgement or concern about it. Maybe they think the ranking system isn't worth the time, but it does cut into the fun for a lot of people.

Botting is highly discouraging but not to name names or witchhunt there have been at least 2 people that I've heard about that were suspended and removed from the rankings. One was a player that responded and said they were playing and not botting and (I think) sent video proof but I don't remember the exact details.

I also agree that expert crafting could be used elsewhere (there are the 500k in each class achievements you can still get outside of rankings though). Would be cool if highest ilvl crafted gear was made with expert crafting rather than a day 1 macro.

[Gourdian]

Oh I see! Thank you for the correction, I'm honestly disconnected from the wider crafting community and was just watching a few friends go through it, & heard a lot of "we caught this person as red-handed as it gets and nothing happened". But that's good to hear.

Also-- not directed @ you Zenn-- I personally do think there are less bots than people generally think & that a lot of botting accusations fly without much ground. It's just kinda unfortunate that even a single one will cause this suspicion & the subsequent discouragement.

[KageTokage]

Botting is highly discouraging but not to name names or witchhunt there have been at least 2 people that I've heard about that were suspended and removed from the rankings. One was a player that responded and said they were playing and not botting and (I think) sent video proof but I don't remember the exact details.

That implies that they actually do resort to the simple, but effective bot checking method of "send them a tell and see if they respond/ignore you".

Though that just makes me question why bans aren't more common even moreso.

I'd like to hope they're actually making adjustments in the long term and that their increased diligence isn't strictly due to the rankings.