[EXPLOIT] gathering bots plague game

[Jerezad]

World: Leviathan (but no doubt ALL worlds)
Zone: Any zone where non-aggressive monsters do not guard gathering nodes
When: Every day
What: While I no longer see the mysterious gathering graphical effects from gathering nodes that I used to, indicating that a gathering bot was operating from a non-visible point of view to gather nodes... NOW I see bots running on a program that allows them to path from each and every single gathering node that can potentially yield an item.

Over the past few weeks, I have seen repeat offenders running on a sort of track system, where they move from potential node spawn point to potential node spawn point, scanning it for a possible gather. If they don't detect a gather, they pause briefly then move to next position. If that position offers a potential yield, they stop and gather. Then the cycle is repeated. I am seeing an increase in players using these exploit programs on our server.

In one case, the player is also using a speed exploit to move faster. They are not activating Sprint, they are regularly moving around the terrain at a Sprint speed without activating the buff. This is Ahri Ro of <<Core>>>.

So far the repeat offenders I am seeing are:
Mintina Roselina
Ahri Ro <<Core>>
Keldinala U'mara <<ReQM>>

EDIT: Ahri Ro is moving at MOUNT speed, not Sprint speed. I swapped to bard and used speed ballad, and Ahri moved faster than I did while on foot.

[1upAquarius]

I see them too, report them usually they aren't even FC affiliated, and have a lvl 50 miner, but only one DoW at lvl 5 or so.
However, I'm on Goblin server and I'm seeing different problems.
On Goblin, near Little Solace in East Shroud (21, 27) there's obviously a mining bot with very fast mining swings, teleporting between nodes. But the kicker is, there is no one in the field of view. You can see the spark animation from mining, and the sound. Yet no one clearly in few, you can hear them take out pickaxe, and put it away after mining. Totally invisible, users in the area (since I shouted) said they are under the map and encouraged me to report which I did. It is discouraging to see, yet there is nothing else we can do but report.

[Malekzus]

Greetings Jerezad,

We appreciate you taking the time to report this concern you are having to us. However, since this sounds like an issue with a player hacking rather than a bug report, I will be closing this particular thread. We welcome you to file a GM ticket in order to seek a resolution.

~ Malekzus