The only thing worse then somebody buying a large house strictly to resell it...

[KageTokage]

...is somebody buying a large house using their gil farming bots and using it as their base of operations.

There's currently two large houses on Cactaur in this predicament, and it frustrates me to no end, partly because of how unsightly the completely barren houses look (They only have a mailbox for easy gil/item transfers) in their respective neighborhoods, and partly because they could easily have done the same with a small house, but opted for a large strictly to flaunt their wealth/annoy people (Neither of them are using their gardens).

I'm curious as to whether or not anyone's seen this happening on other servers.

[Mhaeric]

I suppose that not having this is one benefit of Balmung's flooded housing market...

That and the overflowing population putting a choke hold on RMT in the first place.

[Dustytome]

We have a botter on our server that buys up houses (multiple mansions at that) and just leaves an aetheryte on the lawn of most of them. Only one of their houses have unused gardens that I have seen and a couple have chocobo stables, but no decor outside any of them that was non-functional. They've been reported botting nodes, they've been reported botting goats (very obviously, doing vertical flying exact circles until they catch aggro, killing then repeating) and either nothing was done or someone slapped them on the wrist and ran off giggling while leaving them with their treasure pile.

[Siniztor]

We have a botter on our server that buys up houses (multiple mansions at that) and just leaves an aetheryte on the lawn of most of them. Only one of their houses have unused gardens that I have seen and a couple have chocobo stables, but no decor outside any of them that was non-functional. They've been reported botting nodes, they've been reported botting goats (very obviously, doing vertical flying exact circles until they catch aggro, killing then repeating) and either nothing was done or someone slapped them on the wrist and ran off giggling while leaving them with their treasure pile.

Let me start with i hate bots... But i gotta ask what do goats drop?? did i miss a item added to said goats.....I remeber the botters in ESO pig farming lol

[Asheloux]

Have they been reported for using bots?

[Justuas]

They should have fixed the botting problem before releasing more houses...

[Dustytome]

Let me start with i hate bots... But i gotta ask what do goats drop?? did i miss a item added to said goats.....I remeber the botters in ESO pig farming lol

No idea. All the goat drops tend to be cheap. It was so blatantly obvious a human wasn't in control though.

[Beckett]

Let me start with i hate bots... But i gotta ask what do goats drop?? did i miss a item added to said goats.....I remeber the botters in ESO pig farming lol

They were probably primarily going for Aldgoat Horns, used for Horn Glue, which was used in a fair amount of high level (2.X) crafts. They're easy to get, but it's a pain in the ass to farm mob drops, so they tend to go for a bit more than stuff you can gather easily on Miner or Botanist. The botters probably went after the Aldgoats because they're the lowest level mobs with an item that crafters consistently needed, although I think the Coerthas sheep were a big bot target for awhile as well.

[Siniztor]

They were probably primarily going for Aldgoat Horns, used for Horn Glue, which was used in a fair amount of high level (2.X) crafts. They're easy to get, but it's a pain in the ass to farm mob drops, so they tend to go for a bit more than stuff you can gather easily on Miner or Botanist. The botters probably went after the Aldgoats because they're the lowest level mobs with an item that crafters consistently needed, although I think the Coerthas sheep were a big bot target for awhile as well.

Ahhh for some reason i had pictures of botters killing like farmer bobs goats lol.

This is probly my 2nd peice of advice i give new players who post in the groups im on on fb..fisrt being google what your buying most merchant sell them.

.2nd open all beast tribes even if you don't do them, once you open them they sell materials like the Kobold they sell Aldgoat Horns for 238 gil each.. Stop payng insane mb prices lol

[Dustytome]

They were probably primarily going for Aldgoat Horns, used for Horn Glue, which was used in a fair amount of high level (2.X) crafts. They're easy to get, but it's a pain in the ass to farm mob drops, so they tend to go for a bit more than stuff you can gather easily on Miner or Botanist. The botters probably went after the Aldgoats because they're the lowest level mobs with an item that crafters consistently needed, although I think the Coerthas sheep were a big bot target for awhile as well.

It was the goats in draconian forelands though and it was long after their drops had been of any value.