Botters

[Shinigami]

Report them on the task force page

people are getting banned, just not fast enough

GMs will also point you to this page

include details not just claim so and so is a bot too, the more detail the better they can do their job

Any tips on how to find evidences? only evidence i got so far is crafter not responding to tells and some of them admited using 3rd party programs

[TheVedis]

Any tips on how to find evidences? only evidence i got so far is crafter not responding to tells and some of them admited using 3rd party programs

there are a couple farm bots, one in specific named "the desperado" that we caught on besaid(the one that was in my shell), he has a nice youtube video of him up doing it
he was even actualy at his comp when they started recording him, and then he used it anyway

the guy who did it was running ahead of him trying to take all the mobs before he got to them
so hed auto run into the mobs, and continue to do so even after they were claimed til they died, then hed course correct and try to find the next mob
the guy who was recording it stayed ahead of him, did it again

it went on for hours apperently, the bot barely got any mnobs, he kept auto running into mobs that were claimed, and continued to do so each time til they were dead, was rather funny

[CainaMalebolge]

The little mobs of Lalafell with similar names are getting annoying as well. There is a group in Limsa Lominsa on the Mysidia server, all around Bango Zango on the top level, who are bots. They rarely move, all are wearing r1 ALC starter gear, and do nothing but grind lightning shards. They have been doing it so long they are all r21+.

[Kaisersose]

Botting is a problem. All forms of it. I know there is a lot of different opinions on the matter. I am not really worried about the whole thing, i just want to know one thing.

PLEASE Square-Enix, all i want to know is if YOU know who is botting. just a simple "yes Kaiser, we know" would be the most perfect thing and restore A LOT of faith and hope in the game for me.

[Jinko]

Any tips on how to find evidences? only evidence i got so far is crafter not responding to tells and some of them admited using 3rd party programs

TBH I for one don't particularly like responding to someone when crafting or fishing, that doesn't instantly make me a bot though does it ? lol

That's not enough reason to assume someone is a bot.

It is not your job to catch botters it is SE's they need to add software to detect people using 3rd party applications and then make a list of 3rd party applications which are against the rules.

Even then they have to be careful because banning someone for listening to music in windows media player is not guna win them any favour.

[Vahzl]

TBH I for one don't particularly like responding to someone when crafting or fishing, that doesn't instantly make me a bot though does it ? lol

That's not enough reason to assume someone is a bot.

It is not your job to catch botters it is SE's they need to add software to detect people using 3rd party applications and then make a list of 3rd party applications which are against the rules.

Even then they have to be careful because banning someone for listening to music in windows media player is not guna win them any favour.

This is my problem too, people are all up in arms when they see one, but why? What difference does it make. You aren't going to change the world by reporting one, as in the case of RMT, one goes down, 2 more take their place in seconds. Best to just be like me and exploit the hell out of the RMT's, such as forcefully undercutting items to force their silly bots to purchase your stuff for stupidly over the top prices.

The smart person doesn't point at it and cry, the smart person takes advantage of it.

[Shinigami]

This is my problem too, people are all up in arms when they see one, but why? What difference does it make. You aren't going to change the world by reporting one, as in the case of RMT, one goes down, 2 more take their place in seconds. Best to just be like me and exploit the hell out of the RMT's, such as forcefully undercutting items to force their silly bots to purchase your stuff for stupidly over the top prices.

The smart person doesn't point at it and cry, the smart person takes advantage of it.

Its not about being smart its about fairplay

[Vahzl]

Its not about being smart its about fairplay

If you ever cheated at Sonic the Hedgehog, or other games, then it really doesn't matter.

[Tiraelina]

I have this opinion that if you don't want to actually play a game you shouldn't be playing it, rather than stupidity like have a program play for you. RMT on the other hand is making a profit from the people that don't want to play the game yet won't go far enough to be botting but are willing to pay others IRL Funbucks that bot to do the grunt work for them.

In XIV's case it doesn't give any help in that area by being heavily bot friendly with more straight grinding than older Korean MMO's.

[Shinigami]

If you ever cheated at Sonic the Hedgehog, or other games, then it really doesn't matter.

Cheating while youre playing a game alone dosent matter, cheating while youre with others does matter. You can cheat all you want playing solitair, try cheating poker and get caught people will have your skin. Obviously i am talking to a botter