3rd Party Program Bot farmers everywhere!!

[Gerolan]

I got reported for being a bot because I had quite a few full stacks of fleece on MB.
Someone asked in shout if they knew who the retainer belonged too and I said me.
They then said they were reporting me for botting. What they failed to realise is that I was doing weaver level achievement and the leve quest reward was fleece on most of them.
Never heard anything more about it but people do need to be careful , not all people who gather or list stuff are bots

[Baneus]

I got reported for being a bot because I had quite a few full stacks of fleece on MB.
Someone asked in shout if they knew who the retainer belonged too and I said me.
They then said they were reporting me for botting. What they failed to realise is that I was doing weaver level achievement and the leve quest reward was fleece on most of them.
Never heard anything more about it but people do need to be careful , not all people who gather or list stuff are bots

Plus pretty much every fleece dropping mob now has a chance to drop between 0 and 10 fleece at once. It normally takes about 10 - 15 minutes to get a stack of 99.

[FriendlyUncle]

SE doesn't ban accounts immediately, look back at FFXI task force. They try to find all accounts those bots are associated to and form a little web and mass ban as many of those accounts as possible together and at the same time. This eliminates their dirty currency and lowers the risk of them losing only 1 or 2 bots and being able to safe guard the Gil that they still have on any remaining accounts. Mass bans eliminate much more currency and make it a much larger investment to get back into the game.

It is much easier to dump 30 bucks into a copy of the game once a month because of a ban than to try and get back into it after you had 8 accounts banned in a single day this month.