Attention devs: Game Surveillance Unit re: open world Bots.

[Reokudo]

Do you have screens? (and if you're worried about not having a appropriate picture to censor the chat log, try this)

Well, I don't really care about censoring it. I don't even see the bots there anymore(Not the same ones I mean). A whole new group is there doing their job.

[VesperiaTonberry]

@OP
great thread, i've made one like this and what i get is perma banned...
i give up reporting bot few month ago because it's useless... they still botting until now since fleece hot item era, now they do spiritbonding
honestly, this is the BIGGEST reason to quit for me, even some F2P game handle bot better than this P2P game, it seems like they don't care about fair play, only money
Yoshida did respond to parser issues but why not this? the bot problem is here since open beta!
i can't even imagine what are they thinking regarding bots problem... ZERO respond, the banned number in launcher is just a made up?

[HakuroDK]

I had no idea at all that the GMs couldn't do anything about this. That's pretty silly! Should it not be part of a GM's job description to look out for these RMTs and ban them?

I'm not blaming the GMs at all, in fact with OP's information, I can't really do anything but be supportive of the GMs.

[SalemP]

Gathering bot in Southern Thanalan. Reported him earlier today. He's been at it for HOURS.

[Morningstar1337]

Gathering bot in Southern Thanalan. Reported him earlier today. He's been at it for HOURS.

That reminds me , why do you censor the names and chatlog?

[SalemP]

That reminds me , why do you censor the names and chatlog?

bc you're not allowed to post the character names on the forum. I guess it's considered player shaming or something. At least as far as I'm aware. The chat log is bc people in my FC are talking and I want to respect their privacy lol.

[zileas]

Here on Sargatanas, I see groups of Black Mages in the Ul'Dah aetherite plaza, sometimes AFK, sometimes queuing in to duties. They're all wearing the same gear and have nearly identical names, but the truly puzzling thing to me is that upon examination, one of their equipment slots is occupied by a piece of ST gear, yet they are all listed as not being a member of a Grand Company. That seems to me that it's going beyond botting and into straight up hacking the game.

[Rhindas]

bc you're not allowed to post the character names on the forum. I guess it's considered player shaming or something. At least as far as I'm aware. The chat log is bc people in my FC are talking and I want to respect their privacy lol.

This is true. They will delete your post and temp ban your account if you don't censor the names, because they call it shaming.

[nugglets]

These two lv50 BLM's are soon to be joining the ranks of the hoard in AF gear you can see surrounding them. Identical gear, with everything aside from weapon/shield being under lv15 NPC gear.

Also, I sent the AF BLMs friend requests to see where they're going so quickly all the time. They are almost always in WP all day long. They only queue up when all 4 of them are there. If 1, 2 or 3 are still in duty, they sit there until the 4th shows up. Then, they queue and are back in WP seconds later. If I queue for WP, it takes 5-10 minutes. They are not in parties. I have no idea how this is possible.

[ToffeeCoffee]

These two lv50 BLM's are soon to be joining the ranks of the hoard in AF gear you can see surrounding them. Identical gear, with everything aside from weapon/shield being under lv15 NPC gear.

Also, I sent the AF BLMs friend requests to see where they're going so quickly all the time. They are almost always in WP all day long. They only queue up when all 4 of them are there. If 1, 2 or 3 are still in duty, they sit there until the 4th shows up. Then, they queue and are back in WP seconds later. If I queue for WP, it takes 5-10 minutes. They are not in parties. I have no idea how this is possible.

I suspect once they port in to WP they teleport hack to each of the treasure chests, port out and repeat. They do the same on Tonberry. That's why they are only in there a couple of minutes. I used to be able to open trade with one of them to make the group get stuck and not able to port in, but now if I try that the trade gets auto ignored/cancelled and they still port through instantly.