3rd Party Program Bot farmers everywhere!!

[Volcano]

Not everybody with /busy up is a bot. -_-

Some people have /busy up because of RMT's

Maybe they mistaking them for the AFK one, because i see quite a few bots running around with AFK icon, unless there is some way to have that up at all times while moving, that's pretty much a dead give away. never saw one with busy status,

[ToffeeCoffee]

I've been tracking and reporting the same 4 bots on Tonberry every day for a month and nothing has been done. My friends have given up reporting them because nothing gets done. There's not a shadow of doubt that they are botting. There are a variety of things you can do to verify bots which I won't go into on the forums as the joke will end up being on me instead of them. They rotate daily between Wind Sprites in Lower La Noscea and Golden Fleece in Eastern Thanalan. I've even seen them trading materia and soulbind gear with their owner (5 accounts being driven by one person).
I ask passers-by every day to report them and get ignored.

[Ravno]

There's not a shadow of doubt that they are botting. (...) (5 accounts being driven by one person).

Are you sure that's not a legit multiboxer ? Did they /follow & /assist a leader or act independently ?

[Abrar]

fleece is very easy to get, to be honest.. u can get 99 stack of fleece in a very short time.. before i have lvl50 crafters, by selling fleece is one of my main income bcoz it's easy to get and high demand..

[LunarCain]

You do know the reason 3rd party Botting Program is used for right ppl >_>

[Sadana]

Farming wind sprites behind the windmills? Yep, got one on my server too. There for days. The busy symbol stops /tells and /trades and means the bot program can't be interfered with. :/

[LunarCain]

thats why /afk is useless so better use /busy so u cant stop the bot from moving about

[Symbiant]

thats why /afk is useless so better use /busy so u cant stop the bot from moving about

I agree that it would stop you from trading a bot but, /busy does not always indicate a bot. I run w/ /busy all the time even in dungeons. I was getting spammed 20-30 times a day. I was filling up my black list every 1-2 weeks it was getting insane. So since they would never get rid of the spammers I put /busy.

Saying /busy is a bot is like saying a specific race of people are always criminals. I just do not pay attention to them any more it's not worth my time.

[Sadana]

No one is saying /busy is the only marker of a bot. People are pointing out that bots are mining/standing in the same place for days/weeks/months farming over and over. Used to be you could interrupt the program by trading; now they leave the status set to /busy so you can't interfere and stop the program. That's all. ^^

[LunarCain]

Ah a much clearer message o.o