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    DixieBellOCE's Avatar
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    Bots found all over OCE servers.

    Please remove this free 1m at level 30

    How many billions of GIL needs to flood into the game for RMT before Square Enix take action against this.

    Found about 9-10 mass bot farms and most of them are just rushing MSQ then abandoning the accounts.

    One of them is a boosted level 81 with space whale flying them all around





    Finally got the leader to talk, he claims hes boosting the accounts using 4 pcs to use them for 'extra retainers'.

    Then goes on to say that hes reporting everyone for using /slap on him.



    EDIT: Removing pictures with character names
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    Last edited by DixieBellOCE; 04-01-2022 at 08:22 PM.

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    Not the first botfarm, you can use /icam at the sastasha entrance to find THIS under the map...

    COME ON SQUARE.

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    Removing pic of char names
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    Last edited by DixieBellOCE; 04-01-2022 at 08:23 PM.

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    Naming and shaming can get you banned. Be very careful.

    Ps. This isn't new. We know. Square knows. Everyone knows. This isn't going away. They're legitimate accounts paid with real money so Square doesn't care.
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    Adorable creatures with unacceptable features!

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    Yeah ik, thats why i removed the pictures showing named characters.

    This guys been making hundreds of accs per day, theres no way hes legit paying for all of them unless hes spending thousands of dollars a week.
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    I kind of doubt these RMT farmers are actually paying for all those accounts through legitimate methods, as they're known to resort to charge-back fraud and other shenanigans.

    Regardless, it's sad that they've fundamentally been using the exact methods since way back in 2.0, though sometimes with adjustments made to additionally exploit the free gil that's given from job skips. I think only extreme countermeasures like restricting any manner of gil transactions via trading/market board for a week after an account's creation or some such would be able to actually stop the exploitation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE View Post
    Yeah ik, thats why i removed the pictures showing named characters.

    This guys been making hundreds of accs per day, theres no way hes legit paying for all of them unless hes spending thousands of dollars a week.
    Whales do whale things. I know some people who spend thousands on gacha per week.
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    I would say theyre levelling to buy fc houses with as many chars as possible to put a bid in. They'd need access to at least shirogane to cover all the bases.

    If the bot fcs have been around since oc launch, which is likely, they might have pretty formidable numbers.

    Then all theyd need to do is sell the fc and its house to a real fc who missed out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
    Regardless, it's sad that they've fundamentally been using the exact methods since way back in 2.0, though sometimes with adjustments made to additionally exploit the free gil that's given from job skips. I think only extreme countermeasures like restricting any manner of gil transactions via trading/market board for a week after an account's creation or some such would be able to actually stop the exploitation.
    Banning trading and marketboard transactions is a pretty extreme step that's going to make the game less pleasant for new players being helped by veteran players.

    Better to delay payout of the one million gil by 30 days after level 30 is reached. That's generally going to be more than enough time for SE to get the chargeback for fraudulent payments and new players don't have an actual need for that large an amount of gil until they're around Stormblood levels (and most aren't going to get that far in 30 days).

    Also, trace where the gil ends up. Is it a suspicious transaction (Cotton Dress Gloves: listing price 500,000 gil)? Ban the account that sold the gloves - RMT isn't giving that seller all that gil out of the goodness of their kind hearts.

    Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
    Whales do whale things. I know some people who spend thousands on gacha per week.
    Creating hundreds of accounts a day is not a whale thing, not to mention it can't be done by a single person unless they're using automated third party programs.

    Quote Originally Posted by Tigerlilley View Post
    I would say theyre levelling to buy fc houses with as many chars as possible to put a bid in. They'd need access to at least shirogane to cover all the bases.

    If the bot fcs have been around since oc launch, which is likely, they might have pretty formidable numbers.

    Then all theyd need to do is sell the fc and its house to a real fc who missed out.
    FCs with houses are more likely to be sold to solo players who couldn't get a personal house or want more. Real FCs would have to disband and manually reform under the purchased FC, losing any entitlement progress (plus the company credits) they had already earned (unless RMT had also taken time to rank up the FC instead of stopping at level 6).
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    Last edited by Jojoya; 04-02-2022 at 01:34 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
    Banning trading and marketboard transactions is a pretty extreme step that's going to make the game less pleasant for new players being helped by veteran players.

    Better to delay payout of the one million gil by 30 days after level 30 is reached. That's generally going to be more than enough time for SE to get the chargeback for fraudulent payments and new players don't have an actual need for that large an amount of gil until they're around Stormblood levels (and most aren't going to get that far in 30 days).

    Also, trace where the gil ends up. Is it a suspicious transaction (Cotton Dress Gloves: listing price 500,000 gil)? Ban the account that sold the gloves - RMT isn't giving that seller all that gil out of the goodness of their kind hearts.


    Creating hundreds of accounts a day is not a whale thing, not to mention it can't be done by a single person unless they're using automated third party programs.


    FCs with houses are more likely to be sold to solo players who couldn't get a personal house or want more. Real FCs would have to disband and manually reform under the purchased FC, losing any entitlement progress (plus the company credits) they had already earned (unless RMT had also taken time to rank up the FC instead of stopping at level 6).
    OCE is a month old. There's no FC thats going to be losing much. Buying an FC house is Priority Number 1. No one has workshops, airships. The only thing is credits which are easy got, much easier than buying a house in this game.
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