Is this a bot and how do I report bots?

[Snugglebutt]

Well I have no intention of letting them do nothing, I work my butt off on my gatherer classes and will nag Squeenix continually to make sure they do something in the cases of which I report bots.

@Uriel you seem to be making some mistake, you cannot be specifically in 'afk mode' which is the chair symbol...yet moving around or performing actions at all from testing I have done. It's not possible because the moment you push a button, move your mouse, press the direction pads on gamepad or press a key on keyboard it turns off afk mode and I have tested this as have people I know in FC now.

@Rogue I believe he/she means the in-game support function within the UI. Whether or not they actually listen to reports on that function I don't know but if not then they need to disable or remove it and in the description where it is located replace with information telling people to use website.

[Lusavari]

You can manually turn afk on and off. It only turns off when moving the mouse of keyboard if it automatically set itself to afk rather than manually.

[Kewitt]

Edited ooops

[VoltaAsura]

I feel silly asking, but could this be a retainer?

[Alukah]

You can manually turn afk on and off. It only turns off when moving the mouse of keyboard if it automatically set itself to afk rather than manually.

I can't test it myself atm but unless they fixed it, you are wrong. There was a big thread not so long ago where people complained about the afk status being removed even if it was set manually or if auto afk was off, devs replied that they wouldn't change it.

(Again can't test it, so I'd appreciate a quick check)

[Adler]

About SE doing nothing to fight with RMT is not true - they actually ban quite a lot characters. It just happen very slow like months before the action is taken.

[Snugglebutt]

I can't test it myself atm but unless they fixed it, you are wrong. There was a big thread not so long ago where people complained about the afk status being removed even if it was set manually or if auto afk was off, devs replied that they wouldn't change it.

(Again can't test it, so I'd appreciate a quick check)

You are correct, I had someone test it as I watched their status by the name and soon as they moved even though set it to afk mode manually it still turned off the moment they moved. No matter how many times people try to make up excuses and pretend that running around with afk status is normal, the reality is it is not and it is not possible unless possibly using third party software aka botting. As I mentioned earlier I had people test before I reported the botters.

[Yahavage]

Funnily enough I saw the same thing happening in Southern Thanalan, but the person/bot was fate farming. I tested myself manually setting my status to afk, moved, status dropped. So unless there's something else you need to change to prevent that from happening, but as far as I'm aware there's not. I didn't bother reporting for two reasons, one I wasn't 100% sure you couldn't disable the feature and two: it feels like a total waste of time reporting these. I mentioned in another thread the group of botters on Sargy who've been doing the same thing for at least 4 months, probably longer.

[Amberion]

Sounds strange though, since bots sends the keystrokes to the game. So essentially, it should do exactly as your keyboard/gamepad or whatever does.

Someone would need to test with a macro program to see if it cancels afk mode. Otherwise it's hard to say that afk mode means anything.

[DoctaruRavenbe]

Sounds strange though, since bots sends the keystrokes to the game. So essentially, it should do exactly as your keyboard/gamepad or whatever does.

Someone would need to test with a macro program to see if it cancels afk mode. Otherwise it's hard to say that afk mode means anything.

Not if you set up an elaborate macro script.