Praetorium AFKers

[Kirika-]

Many times the /afk'ers are actually RMT bots, the one controlling them queuing up for the MSG so they can progress to the point of unlocking profitable dungeons to bot in.
Typically, if they are a derplander or derplafel DPS, with a random string of letters name, they are part of a RMT bot squad.
/report and /vkick them as soon as possible.

[ArmaDragkun]

Many times the /afk'ers are actually RMT bots, the one controlling them queuing up for the MSG so they can progress to the point of unlocking profitable dungeons to bot in.
Typically, if they are a derplander or derplafel DPS, with a random string of letters name, they are part of a RMT bot squad.
/report and /vkick them as soon as possible.

Always been at least to my eyes proper players as they have proper names not like the bots who RMT shout in Limsa

[Kirika-]

Always been at least to my eyes proper players as they have proper names not like the bots who RMT shout in Limsa

I'm just mentioning what I have also seen, not just it being a "regular player" who is non-participating.

Yes, I run across a "leech" fairly common, who either just auto-follows or stays parked at zone-ins (MSG start and each boss arena), who are simply not doing anything but leeching the exp/tomestones/progress.
They are normally not sprouts, but a regular player, sometimes in FC, just not participating for whatever reason.
They might even be controlled by one of the other players in the party (especially if they are auto-following), as in a multi-box setup or whatever.... /shrug
Just /vkick and /report

But, as I stated above, I do also run into real RMT bots in MSQ roulette, as I described.

[Jojoya]

Many times the /afk'ers are actually RMT bots, the one controlling them queuing up for the MSG so they can progress to the point of unlocking profitable dungeons to bot in.

That would be extremely inefficient for RMT bots when they could just queue together and use their hacks to have the dungeon completed in a couple of minutes.

I've also never seen any character in a MSQ roulette with a RMT bot name, which stand out like a sore thumb.

The AFKers are either "normal" players using bots to do activities the player finds distasteful or lazy players hoping the group will either not notice them or have some go-go-go player keeping everyone in combat so the party never gets a decent chance to kick them.

[Kirika-]

That would be extremely inefficient for RMT bots when they could just queue together and use their hacks to have the dungeon completed in a couple of minutes.

I've also never seen any character in a MSQ roulette with a RMT bot name, which stand out like a sore thumb.

The AFKers are either "normal" players using bots to do activities the player finds distasteful or lazy players hoping the group will either not notice them or have some go-go-go player keeping everyone in combat so the party never gets a decent chance to kick them.

I have ran across RMT bots in the two MSG roulettes over a dozen times over the last two years.... on average, it would be two characters per run.... Most I have seen was 4 at once.
They would stay at the starting point, only catching up as they port into a boss arena after we engage, they do nothing at that port in spot, repeating for each subsequent boss.
It would be very obvious what they were, as they "match" the typical RMT bot you run into in the wild or at the quest turn-in NPCs with the default sprout characters, default gear, no FC, and gibberish names, only not doing the teleporting and "underground" hacking.

Generally we would /vkick them after a couple bosses, as it was very plain what they were by then.

So, yes inefficient, but it is something they do.