RMT and Botting Out of Control

[DSN]

Right now on Excalibur outside Bentbranch Medows are 15-20 bots running botany at the moment. All have been reported dozens of times all are named asdfasdfasdfa etc.

This is so out of hand I am done. I give up on this game. My only option is to run dungeons non stop which excludes me from doing anything I want to do in this game ... but wait there are bots in the dungeons now to. Tanking bots, healing bots, warp to chest bail on group bots.

The little to nothing being done by Square Enix has just a horrific effect on the game as the RMT's do.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Should I feel bad for never seeing a bot like... Ever? Also, how does someone botting botany have anything to do with you anyway? Just report them and move on.

It's not as if you can't gather from the locations because they disappear due to them gathering from there.

[Nuinn]

Should I feel bad for never seeing a bot like... Ever? Also, how does someone botting botany have anything to do with you anyway? Just report them and move on.

It's not as if you can't gather from the locations because they disappear due to them gathering from there.

Wow.... just wow.

I see you never do really any of the crafting in this game. If you don't get why I mentioned crafting on a botting thread then, here, I shall award you another "wow". Try to figure that one out on your own.

Aaanyhow, to the topic at hand. I've noticed them running along the scripted paths on Excalibur last night as well. There's also been a number of them auto targeting lv 1-3 mobs just outside Gridania gates in Central Shroud for a while now, as well as the invisible botanist bots on the other side of Bentbranch (which cannot be selected and you can't see their names).

All we can really do is hope the reports get a quick review and these bots are dealt with in a timely manner :x

P.S. I'd stay away from purchasing suspiciously cheap shards from the market, for the time being.

[gadzi_h]

..., as well as the invisible botanist bots on the other side of Bentbranch (which cannot be selected and you can't see their names).

I have this issue on Gilgamesh and it is even hard to get a name now. Sometimes I have to wait at a specific node to get a name just to report. Bots are ruining the market, and making botany a valueless grind.

[Inkedbettie]

I have this issue on Gilgamesh and it is even hard to get a name now. Sometimes I have to wait at a specific node to get a name just to report. Bots are ruining the market, and making botany a valueless grind.

I'm on Gilgamesh as well, I've been come across them in Central Shroud, Thanalan. They're the same level too.

[gadzi_h]

I'm on Gilgamesh as well, I've been come across them in Central Shroud, Thanalan. They're the same level too.

Oh Inkedbettie, don't get me started on Thanalan on gilgamesh, I caught 3 mining bots on the same piece of rock, or should I say in the rock doing there thing. I just packed up and went to another node knowing full well that anything I harvested there would be worthless. This part of the game is honestly driving me nuts.

[Bloodwillow]

P.S. I'd stay away from purchasing suspiciously cheap shards from the market, for the time being.

Be smart.

Anyone with a trash name AVOID. Anyone who sells 1k or more shards at VERY LOW PRICES ... AVOID. Anyone who sells stacks of 1k gil with tons of placements (i.e. a perosn has 20 stacks of 1k sharks) AVOID.

Tell your friends. Be suspicious. None of this is good.

The shard economy on Gilgamesh for lightning shards has gone bad. Bots are not undercutting MORE THAN HALF of that shards used to be. This is utter CRAP.

[Aleksandr]

Should I feel bad for never seeing a bot like... Ever? Also, how does someone botting botany have anything to do with you anyway? Just report them and move on.

It's not as if you can't gather from the locations because they disappear due to them gathering from there.

I think you are a liar as I am on Balmung and almost all the zones have bots. Well unless you don't have any gathering jobs. There have been more than one shout on Balmung about certain botters who have been around for weeks.

[Mezolitik]

I think you are a liar as I am on Balmung and almost all the zones have bots. Well unless you don't have any gathering jobs. There have been more than one shout on Balmung about certain botters who have been around for weeks.

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here, and say that I haven't seen a single gathering bot for about 3-4 weeks; in fact, the only place I've ever seen them is just outside the main gate in Ul'dah. And my combined gatherer level is 98. Maybe they're just really clever; I don't know.

I'm not denying that it happens, I just think that some servers are much worse than others - and calling somebody a liar because they had a different experience to you is pretty unfair.

The /tell spam is ridiculous on Ragnarok, however.

[StarMarmot]

Also, how does someone botting botany have anything to do with you anyway?

It has a fairly direct impact in that the logs I grind to try to sell are mauled down to 8 gil a piece because the bot that has been running the same route 24/7 for 4 weeks just obliterates any kind of demand while also undercutting by insane amounts to dump his stock. Switch spots you say? There's another bot there too. I didn't say which spot? Oh, they have one on all the spots.