How bad are gilfarmer/botters on your server?

[Boilon]

Urth's Gift, the entry tunnel with the bats are a very popular gilfarmer location on Gilgamesh, I always see the same Bard level 50 with a ridiculous name ( in an FC of 1) farming Lesser Kalong's with spiritbond crafting gear and an i70 HQ bow. This gilfarmer/botter just spins around and whenever his character model is in front of another target it attacks. Practically here 24/7 except occasionally I see in Limsa at the summoning bell with 6 of the same geared people.

I reported this and urged others to do as well (who knows if anyone is actually reporting this). But, this is a flashback of my FFXI days when on Carbuncle server we had the wave of gilfarmer/botters named Exta-z . Am I the only one who is completely angry about this sort of thing that it doesn't seem enough GMs are taking actions on what I see as quite obvious gilfarming/RMT.

[Kisshu]

Ragnarok used to be bad, but it's really changed.
At one point I often saw 6 archers/bards trading to one person at the Ul'Dah crystal, all in same gear with head-to-keyboard names and a lot of tells.
Now, I get at most 2 tells a week, sometimes no tells for weeks.

No idea why they left ragnarok but are enmass on other servers, perhaps because they didn't sell any gil there?

[Gilthas]

Ragnarok used to be bad, but it's really changed.
At one point I often saw 6 archers/bards trading to one person at the Ul'Dah crystal, all in same gear with head-to-keyboard names and a lot of tells.
Now, I get at most 2 tells a week, sometimes no tells for weeks.

No idea why they left ragnarok but are enmass on other servers, perhaps because they didn't sell any gil there?

I'm really wondering if they just cut down on gilfarming on the EU datacenter. You still see bots on Phoenix too, but I never see them farming mobs and most of the crystal farmers are gone. What I do see is what appears to be them farming instances.

[Gerolan]

I'm really wondering if they just cut down on gilfarming on the EU datacenter. You still see bots on Phoenix too, but I never see them farming mobs and most of the crystal farmers are gone. What I do see is what appears to be them farming instances.

To check in fell guard where the plasmoid mobs are, bard bots there 24/7 up on a ledge on pheonix

[Gilthas]

To check in fell guard where the plasmoid mobs are, bard bots there 24/7 up on a ledge on pheonix

I've been doing the Ixali beastmen quests every day and never see anyone killing the plasmoid mobs. I imagine that it's possible that they're not there 24/7.

[Gerolan]

I've been doing the Ixali beastmen quests every day and never see anyone killing the plasmoid mobs. I imagine that it's possible that they're not there 24/7.

Considering I'm not only one who's reported them and they've become a running joke in two LSs both of which have 128 people, pretty sure they have been seen at a lot of other times

[Ecks007]

There's a whole FC of them, yes.. they have a FC on my server. For at least one group of them. They like to hang out in North Shroud where the Smells Like Tree Spirit fate pops and aoe the plasmoids there.. for some reason. That's all they do.

I was also in Ul'Dah doing some crafter stuff and saw 2-3 different groups of 4 man parties of nothing but Blms phase in and out (constant dungeon running) right in front of the market board. They all had obvious rmt names, all wore complete Myth gear and had the same crafted HQ staves.

I seem to be receiving more rmt /tells than usual, even during times that are normally quiet for me. It's really annoying to continuously Blacklist them.

[Gerolan]

There's a whole FC of them, yes.. they have a FC on my server. For at least one group of them. They like to hang out in North Shroud where the Smells Like Tree Spirit fate pops and aoe the plasmoids there.. for some reason. .

Same on pheonix, same spot, except these are bards, that stay on a ledge so nothing else can agro, is odd
Reported a lot, still there two months later

[Riepah]

Cactuar seems bearable. I get quite a few goldspam tells per day, but they usually stop after 1 tell per character, so I don't even have to blacklist them anymore. I don't run into a whole lot of bots, but then again, I don't run around a whole lot in the open world. It definitely was worse in the past than it is today.

[Kydi]

I usually get 1 tell a day on Zodiark, although I'm often in instances so that might be something to do with it. Had a couple in dungeons through DF too.