People ask "Are you a bot" ?

[Traek]

OP, this is perfect time to promptly /sh respond with, "Beep Boop." and go to the next FATE.

[Demetirus]

I've gotten this while farming for various items, particularly meats for my CUL. The worst is when they've reported me anyway and decided to only send me a tell after the fact, complete with complaining because I'm hogging all of the 'x' and insults/swearing. >:C

[Noni]

Here are a few tips I can pass on from my experience....I hope this helps! Never stay in an area too long. Every time I left an area and came back I got atma within 20 minutes of doing so, don't know if it was coincidence but it worked for me. Also got all my atma solo. Tried a party once and stayed for 6 hrs. left went to a new area solo and once again, within 20 minutes atma.

[kidvideo]

I always get the question "are you a bot?" because I HQ like the last name Ever first name Greatest. I reply via macro, "no dawg, i'm jus dat OP."

[RowanLauron]

Not in this game, but in FFXI I used to farm the crap out of trees in Lufaise Meadows for saplings. I did it so long I was very good at claiming. Some guy tried to report me for claim hacking. I got a whisper telling me he did so. I just lol'd and said I'd been doing this for a long time.

[ApolloGenX]

No, I am not a bot! *beep*

[Penguinmayhem]

The easiest way to tell if a player is a bot, or even a real person-controlled account but running a script of some kind, is to attempt to communicate with it and/or open a trade window.

[EasymodeX]

My rotation; 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1

This Atma business is quality gameplay.

[drake2k]

I was once asked "u a BOT?" while trying to fish for Silver Sovereign. I politely told them "No, I r FSH, See the pole? See the glowie ball, BOT dun do dat!"

They never did reply back.

[infinitezero]

I must admit that I do exactly the same when I come into an area where a lot of characters are gathering (with a specific behavioural patern).
I too just ask at random if people are human (in say), those that don't respond get reported.

This is ridiculous. I'm glad you're not on my server. I go into autopilot mode when I need to gather a large amount of shards/crystals with TV shows or a movie playing in Media Player Classic covering my chat box with the game sound off. Just because someone doesn't respond to the message you sent because you're so afraid someone might be breaking the rules, doesn't mean that they are. Especially when this kind of thing could get someones account taken away from them, essentially robbing them of all the time they have invested into the game up to that point.