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

[Aleczan]

Whoa, I'm on Ragnarok and I think we're overrun with bots too. I just keep reporting "suspicious characters" every time I spot them. I think I report bots twice a week on average.

[nugglets]

We have the same things going on in the same places on Excalibur, too. I would imagine it's this way on every server, since these are the good farming/SB areas.

Actually, anyone in here speak Japanese? I would be very interested to know if the same thing is happening on their servers.

[HumsterMKX]

I personally witness bot appearing outside the Gates of Thal a mth back, here on Masamune.

They appear 1 after another and stack upon each other. Moved toegther, cast lighting 1 after another.

Then as fast as they appear, they vanished. Then after 3 seconds another grp appeared... cast Aero, then vanished.

Continued on for quite sometime. Stopped observing after an A hunt mob popped somewhere else.

The names are actually well thought of, not those wsadfg ghyj type names.

[SalemP]

Cheating? that's ok. Reporting cheating? you'll be disciplined.

what a backwards world

[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.

[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.