Eureka Bots are generating 280m gil a day with platinum pieces

[KageTokage]

That interview they had with the head of the STF a couple years back really spoke for how insanely out of touch they are with the playerbase when they were thinking the majority of botting was taking place in PvP, and their only reply they could offer to the complaints was "keep sending in reports".

[Kes13a]

That interview they had with the head of the STF a couple years back really spoke for how insanely out of touch they are with the playerbase when they were thinking the majority of botting was taking place in PvP, and their only reply they could offer to the complaints was "keep sending in reports".

thats laughable. the smallest aspect of the game and they figure the problem is there. insanely out of touch is an understatement.. and proof that they are not actually reading any report sent to them.

[Meowdyj]

Previous threads about Eureka bots all went silent and nothing happened. Reporting feels like a waste of time. If only people stopped buying gil.

[Raoabolic]

Previous threads about Eureka bots all went silent and nothing happened. Reporting feels like a waste of time. If only people stopped buying gil.

Even better, the mods yeet'd the threads. It seems like all they want is to keep the botting issue in a single containment thread for them to ignore, lol.

[Kes13a]

Even better, the mods yeet'd the threads. It seems like all they want is to keep the botting issue in a single containment thread for them to ignore, lol.

honestly seems the most likely.

[Mika_Zahard]

thats about 400 platinum pieces per night window = 4m gil

Alright im off for eureka, gl all, ill farm gil too o7

[Mika_Zahard]

reports going to the support desk are useless. they can't do anything about them. you have to report direct to the STF. there is an obscure link somewhere in the online help website, but i don't remember where it is.

Here's the STF link: https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2

[Catwho]

I think the most logical response to this is removing the platinum pieces from the content, if SE's concern is that money circulating in the in game economy.

Bots won't bother if they can't generate fiat money. Granted, they'll just move on to some other means of creating gil out of thin air, but it would stop the bots from making Eureka more difficult than it already is.

[Missbone]

How do you come up with these numbers? How do you know how many bots are on each server and each eureka instance and how much they get. Are you managening them yourself or what? If they truly make such good money and SE dosnt give a shit about them. Why not just get some yourself? It seems like the perfect way to make some extra money and save your time for something else.

[ehbiwtf]

SE banned just about every Eureka bot on NA DC's a couple months ago. Since at least March or May, every day there were like 20 bunny bots in Pagos, 20 in Pyros, and 28 or so in Hydatos splitting moist box farm and bunnies. Why it took SE so long to ban them, who knows, but I just want to make it clear that SE did ban those bots. Now we are starting to see them come back. One full party at least so far on Primal, one on Crystal, not sure about Aether. I know everyone thinks reports don't do anything, but I think they do. We made a decent effort on Crystal's Eureka discord to encourage everyone to take the time to report all the bots, as the situation was out of control at the time. 2 weeks later the bots all disappeared. Coincidence? Maybe.

Reporting for cheating is a massive pain in the butt. Have to type all those names out every time and describe what they were doing. The process isn't transparent at all, meaning we have no stats to look at and see what reports led to bans, which ones needed more info, wrong reports, any frivolous reports, etc. Also it's not very encouraging for players to keep hearing about how reports aren't looked at. Honestly I think not enough reports get sent in but we can't know that without any info from SE, and it doesn't bode well that they don't share any. I can't help but be optimistic instead of defeatist when it comes to Eureka.

I would be fine if they removed the gil from bunnies and plat coins from lockboxes. Probably the best thing they could do. Won't solve the botting problem in general, but then again I don't really care if they bot outside Eureka. Just want them to stop doing it in my house.