A bot i've kept track of after reporting it.

[AnnaMolly]

This one bot on Excalibur has been reported several times by several people I know, it used to stand for weeks on end doing the same repetitive routine, repeatedly botting Karakul in Coerthas, never once moving in all that time. It is still in game.

[NeruMew]

Part of the approach SE do is to monitor the RMT trails. They are playing the long game. They want to wipe out the whole chain in one go, which is what they have done before on this game and previously on FFXI. Wipe out those bots today and those companies create new ones immediately. Watch where the gil goes and track all the accounts it flows through for one month and SE can wipe out the bots, the gil banks and those people that buy the gil as well. All in one go. Take out the gil buyers and the gil sellers will leave because with no customers its a waste of time. In the meantime we all have to put up with the annoyance of it.

I hope you are right. Anyway.

[Nadrojj]

The same bot on balmung has been farming apkallus in the same spot for the last three weeks. Reporting him every day hasn't helped.

[HumsterMKX]

*cough*

Pls insert anti lalafell statement here.

[Vanguard319]

Part of the approach SE do is to monitor the RMT trails. They are playing the long game. They want to wipe out the whole chain in one go, which is what they have done before on this game and previously on FFXI. Wipe out those bots today and those companies create new ones immediately. Watch where the gil goes and track all the accounts it flows through for one month and SE can wipe out the bots, the gil banks and those people that buy the gil as well. All in one go. Take out the gil buyers and the gil sellers will leave because with no customers its a waste of time. In the meantime we all have to put up with the annoyance of it.

agreed, the botting continues because there is a market for it. The secret is to get rid of the buyers, you'd think the risk of getting you account hacked would be a deterrence, but apparently, people are still buying.

[zakalw3]

People can be greedy, impatient, and stupid. Anyone who buys gold at this stage in ARR's life is certainly all of these things to some degree.

I see literally 0 reason to buy Gil right now. With relics and DL gear being so easy to obtain, and Gil being so easy to make (I'm sitting on 700k, and I've handed out about 500k of mats to FC members) and I've barely been trying to earn.

I just don't understand it.

[KyteStones]

I will have to say that the bots are ridiculous, but I have run into many people on Ragnarok that are actually farming all of the stuff they repeatedly do over and over again. I had Today off so I spent pretty much Friday-today leveling my archer/bard 18-43 (still going as we speak just taking a breather) pretty much all weekend. I received many tells and trade requests as if they are "checking" on me. After shouting asking people to stop that I just want to level and to leave me alone, 3 other people in the area sent me tells saying the same issues was happening to them. Being accused as bots, or gil spammers etc. I can understand asking a legit question, or see a teleporter, but if I'm grinding fates, and killing trash mobs in Aleport or anywhere else after a fate doesn't make me a bot. I don't have the ability to sit still and wait for another fate to pop so I kill little mobs. Sure 207 exp doesn't sound so enticing, but after being online all weekend after taking 3 weeks off the game I wanted to get back into it hard, only to have myself and 3 others accused as botting (we even partied up after the tells! I don't think bots do that...)

tl;dr
Bots do suck, but you cant just report someone because you "think" they are a bot. Unless you see teleportation, or them gil-spamming tells to you, please think twice before harassing some of us. Some times we want to mine quietly and alone or do other things alone with out a hassle of a party, we don't need the harassing tells :P

[Delsus]

*snip*

And just imagine if SE had a ban on report policy for bots and rmt, this is why they have to make thorough investigations of reports.

[KyteStones]

And just imagine if SE had a ban on report policy for bots and rmt, this is why they have to make thorough investigations of reports.

While I understand that, it just feels like reporting them is doing nothing. 162 people on my BL and they are still active. The tells in cities seem to be getting worse too IMO. Just saying that I've been "victim" to being accused and it doesn't feel very good I've even had a stranger stand up for me in Coetheras because I was farming the HQ sheep wool for like 4 hours and people started shouting I was a bot until a guy defended me. it's not like I didn't respond to their threats, I asked nicely for them to stop and leave me alone. It goes deeper then a lot of people have dealt with.

[Zer0]

This was the main reason I stopped playing, too many bots and nothing at all being done about it. They've won.