In the same boat. Seems to me the "regular" (non RMT) botters aren't really dealt with. There's a guy on Cerberus running several accounts that has been botting mining and botany for more than two months, literally 24/7. Wouldn't be exhaggerating if I say it's the most known couple of bots on the server, probably with hundreds and hundreds of reports from different players by now, and it's still running as if nothing happened. It's very downputting and makes you feel like a complete moron when you mine next to it, knowing he's watching a good movie, playing a fun game or whatever when you're just staring at the nodes going *clank*, *clank*, *clank*.

I don't have any idea how the investigations go. I can understand they want to monitor the flow of gil and items before they shut a bot down. I can understand it's sometimes tricky to actually prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that 3rd party software is in fact used. However, when you have someone being online for 1500 consecutive hours doing the exact same task without pause, that should be grounds enough in my book. Somewhere along the way, you also have to prioritize what sort of message you send to the people doing the reporting too, at the cost of any gil/item flow investigations you might be running.