HUNDREDS of bots logging in/out on Goblin Thanalan Uldah Steps of Thal at 11x,13y

[EXTREME_MDP]

There are literally HUNDREDS of bots logging into and out of game with un-pronounceable names on the Goblin server in Thanalan Uldah Steps of Thal PRECISELY and ONLY at the coordinates 11x,13y.

No WONDER I can't log in on the server and I'm put into a que!!!! This is INSANE!!! Look at my screencaps I took of them. They are all level 1 male humans with a sword, all same appearance. Carbon copies of each other with only a different name in the form of what I call, gobbley goop names, meaning their names look like this: Deislcbhjl Pjlesaefwncke or Wxmbvrt Hgrtyuexpdoi. Their names mean nothing. They log in, within 2 seconds they pivot once to the left, then log right back out. You can't whisper them, they log out too fast. To report all of them, I'd have to be one helluva screencapper and fast typist!!! Below are the screenshots. As you can see from the time stamps in the chat log, i only screencapped a few within a portion of a minute!!!! PLEASE DO SOMETHING, SE!!!!!:

[NatePlsStop]

Square really needs to set up a quicker way to report people, bots at least. I see tons of them on my server mining all day. I try to report it, but it's very slow and tedious. Could be done a lot better. I didn't think it would be that hard to make a reporting system. Not sure why it needs to ask your server, date, and area where you saw the bots. Shouldn't that be the job of the Moderators who oversee these kinds of things? I don't want to do their job. I just want to be able to quickly report these people.

There should at least be a script that shows the date, time, server, and area where you reported someone. I don't know how to code, but it doesn't seem that impossible to code something similar to this. If you have a bot problem on day one and people can't actively report them, something needs to change. Fast.

[EXTREME_MDP]

I've now confirmed these bots are logging into other spots near the Weaver's guild as well. One inside the Weaver's guild (in Uldah steps of thal) near the NPC Yellow Moon, and another spot outside the door of the Weaver's guild near an unnamed NPC that's holding a box (and the bots seem to jump once then log out), and another spot just down the hallway near a piece of chest armor on display on the wall (on the left as you are leaving the Weaver's guild).

[Kheni]

didn't anyone give u a memo they do not care they banned tons of innocent acct's and they don't give a hoot about us

[Syamic]

They are probably not logging out but tele-porting to there mining location to start there shift.

[Grefia]

level 1 can't mine

[KisaiTenshi]

I found a group on Excalibur at Central Thanalan 25x 31y

They aren't teleporting but they are all Thaumaturge's killing the Snapping Shrews. All exactly at the same time.

Even more fun...
http://youtu.be/CsUOxhC3wUg
They all have the same nameday AND are in sequence on the lodestone.

This makes me wonder... is it possible to actually login to the game 8 times with the same account?

[KisaiTenshi]

I found a group on Excalibur at Central Thanalan 25x 31y

They aren't teleporting but they are all Thaumaturge's killing the Snapping Shrews. All exactly at the same time.

Even more fun...
http://youtu.be/CsUOxhC3wUg
They all have the same nameday AND are in sequence on the lodestone.

This makes me wonder... is it possible to actually login to the game 8 times with the same account?

To follow up on my original thought process If you look through the lodestones for the characters now:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121612/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121611/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121610/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121609/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121608/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121607/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121606/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5121605/
Thurmatage lv10, goldsmith 5, weaver 5, alchemist 5

I can pretty much predict what's going on. Those jobs are all in Ul'dah, current price for crystals are 33/ea for fire, ice 21/ea, water 25/ea, earth shard 9/ea, wind 38/ea, lightning 28/ea
Alchemist gives you 150 water, 100 lightning at level 1 quest, 200 water and 150 lightning for level 5.
Goldsmith gives you 150 wind at level 1, 200 wind, 150 fire at level 5
Weaver gives you 150 lightning and 100 wind, 200 lightning, 150 wind at level 5

Multiply by 8 and you get:
8 x 600 wind = 4800 wind crystals
8 x 350 water = 2800 water crystals
8 x 700 lightning = 5600 lightning crystals
8 x 150 fire = 1200 fire crystals

All for less than 4 hours of work. Chances are these bots are walking to Gridania, they can't get to Limsa Lominsa due to quest requirements.

How can SE fix this...
a) require a "cap" quest in the storyline to actually unlock the crafting skills, not simply reaching level 10. I don't remember what exactly was required to unlock these but obviously the bar is set too low.
b) Drop an actual storyline roadblock between Gridania and Ul'dah. Yes it's dangerious to actually walk the entire way, but guess what, I did it no problem at a low level. Similarly to how you unlock the white wolf gate, throw a NPC border guard between Western Thanalan and South Shroud. The north route is extremely dangerous and is pretty much impossible to pass without a mount and not getting attacked. Then again... teleporting bots. That has to be solved first.
c) Perhaps another way is to remove the crystals entirely from the quests (reduce it to like 10 each.)
d) Make crystals unable to be traded player to player, and can only be sold in stacks of 99 on the market. Right now they're just dumping them up to 9999 at a time since they take up no inventory space.

[Philotreu]

Greetings folks,

We appreciate you taking the time to report this concern you are having to us. However, since this is not a technical support issue, I will be closing this particular thread.

Good luck and have fun!