Teleport Mining Bot

[inthepot]

I see these teleport mining bot everythime I go mine, and every time, I report them, but it seems nothing is being done about it. Botters, I've reported are still there, appearing and disappearing from nodes to nodes. I feel as if nothing is being done about it. Can I get a "We're looking into it" or some other assurance?

[KisaiTenshi]

I see these teleport mining bot everythime I go mine, and every time, I report them, but it seems nothing is being done about it. Botters, I've reported are still there, appearing and disappearing from nodes to nodes. I feel as if nothing is being done about it. Can I get a "We're looking into it" or some other assurance?

18 days and counting, same bots, same place.

[inthepot]

I mean how hard or time consuming would it be for a GM to pop next the person, see him teleporting around, bam! ban. It would take me like 10 sec (at the most) to confirm if someone is teleport mining. This issue needed to be addressed 20 days ago. Hurry the hell up SE; this concern is destroying the longivity of the game.

[Uny]

I just report one other teleport user this morning ( http://youtu.be/kJeHzME1_J0 ) they are so many..

[inthepot]

I just report one other teleport user this morning ( http://youtu.be/kJeHzME1_J0 ) they are so many..

That is disturbing because a lv50 monk? teleporting around in broad daylight means people understands that SE is not doing anything so they're freely cheating. That is what I'm afraid of, ffxiv becoming a cheater's arms race game. I'm already considering other games.

[Ronove]

That is disturbing because a lv50 monk? teleporting around in broad daylight means people understands that SE is not doing anything so they're freely cheating. That is what I'm afraid of, ffxiv becoming a cheater's arms race game. I'm already considering other games.

The other day I saw a Lv50 Dragoon teleporting around Coerthas farming the same enemies over and over again (and myself and a friend reported him so I guess it's just the waiting game to see if that person's been dealt with).

Though it hasn't bothered me personally yet since I haven't gotten very high in crafting to need to farm materials from enemies, I know when I actually have to, I will start to get annoyed very quickly if they are all being farmed by teleporting bots.

[SirShootsalot]

I just report one other teleport user this morning ( http://youtu.be/kJeHzME1_J0 ) they are so many..

At least the bots in Exodus are lazy. got one in the same spot as where that vid started, but just sits there. and somehow hits the things before they spawn. they need to extend the pull range on mobs so we can drag AoE spamming mobs to bots. i remember running the whole way through the dunes in FFXI on more than one occasion with a goblin on my tail so i know it can be done.

[Asdamine]

SE already terminated six thousand accounts the other day for this, but needless to say, they had to "man-handle" those six thousand accounts individually to investigate legitimate cheating so it will take time. I am sure your report is on a very, very, very, very long queue of report list on SE's table.

[inthepot]

SE already terminated six thousand accounts the other day for this, but needless to say, they had to "man-handle" those six thousand accounts individually to investigate legitimate cheating so it will take time. I am sure your report is on a very, very, very, very long queue of report list on SE's table.

It's not even like that. SE can easily set up an auto-detect, and have GM check out those who flag it. It's not like these bots can evade GMs, they're bot, they teleport around every 3-4 second. If emulated WoW servers can do it, so can a multi-billion dollars company. I don't want a punishment system, I want a preventive system. Why won't SE implement little changes that can greatly discourage cheating??

[KisaiTenshi]

It's not even like that. SE can easily set up an auto-detect, and have GM check out those who flag it. It's not like these bots can evade GMs, they're bot, they teleport around every 3-4 second. If emulated WoW servers can do it, so can a multi-billion dollars company. I don't want a punishment system, I want a preventive system. Why won't SE implement little changes that can greatly discourage cheating??

Well in V2.0 (I don't know if this existed during V1) they should have expected the script kiddies would do this... why they've let it go on for at least three weeks, who knows why. I quit V1 because of the RMT/bots and that was a month in. I already canceled my sub when I saw nothing was being done about the RMT here, but I reserve the right to change my mind should I see something done (eg bots actually being banned, not persisting perpetually.)

This is the prime reason I've quit MMORPG's in the past, was the rampant cheating. (My youtube channel is like 25% reporting cheaters from various games, not just this one) after seeing jack-**** happen to cheats in other games I just walked away from them. I've had people (both whom I've accused of cheating and who knows them in those games basically accuse me trying to be the game's police and just laugh at how long they've been getting away with it.) Slaps on the wrists and they go right back to it.

And I don't think these game companies are aware that having not enough staff to actually manage the RMT problem is simply discouraging people from wanting to play. I don't seriously expect the problem to be solved at launch, but I did expect the bots to disappear in an hour, not ... never.

But alas, this problem seems incredibly rampant in Japanese and Korean RPG's, this is really frustrating to the point that I just don't want to continue playing them if I don't see any change by the next patch. I don't play Western RPG's because they're butt ugly, so I don't know if WoW and clones have the same problem.