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

[Aleczan]

yeah I noticed this as well. There's no record of these in my report log. I don't understand why. I tried to check to see when I had reported that group the first time but there was no history of it. That really bothers me.

Also, I had mentioned previously that when I reported another player for harassment (he randomly called me a name), I heard back almost immediately (I would say within 30 mins). There is also a log of my report and their response in my history. But I have not heard a peep from any of the reports I've made on bots and that has been days or weeks. Without it being in my history, it makes me wonder if my reports have even been going through. I don't like it.

I think the only things that get to be stored in Report History are those that were sent through "Report Harassment". I've used both and it seems the "Report Harassment" is more live service (a GM sends tell to discuss the matter), while "Report Cheating" is like an online form for non-live support, therefore it doesn't get a history record, and doesn't get live response (/tell from GM).

[Casca_Vallis]

Found more bots, searched out another 30 this time black mages. Reported to SE in total over 70 from Moogle alone today. Looks like they're all THM/BLM couldn't find any gathering bots.

It's so obvious whats going on, only need to look at the materia market and see the same retainers selling masses of materia.

Heres some in action teleport hacking in whitebrim - they're both standing on the exact same spot with the same gear same last names (same as some that I reported a few days ago).

Watched them dissapear and reappear at different points in whitebrim think they were questing?



Hope to see them banned soon....

[DizzyDragonfly]

On Balmung, Central Shroud (29 19) some bot's farming Microchu's one of them is running around with the AFK symbol above his head

[hamsteak]

LMAO those aren't bots, those are event characters for the upcoming fanfest

[SalemP]

This bot and her group are in wanderer's palace every time I am logged in. All day, every day. In and out of this dungeon.



I guess I can take small solace in the fact that they will be booted out when maintenance starts. :/

[DizzyDragonfly]

So I noticed after this latest "RMT and Illicit Activity" kick that an FC of bots on my server haven't logged in at all so I assume they were caught in the wave but I noticed when I searched for their FC that it still exists with all it's members intact, their just offline, so I guess what my question is, do they only temporarily ban automated bots?

[Morningstar1337]

So I noticed after this latest "RMT and Illicit Activity" kick that an FC of bots on my server haven't logged in at all so I assume they were caught in the wave but I noticed when I searched for their FC that it still exists with all it's members intact, their just offline, so I guess what my question is, do they only temporarily ban automated bots?

If they do I can understand why. As one early post said, crafts and gatherers do bot like things (mostly involving macros and quick synthesis), And SE is not omniscient, they would probably have trouble distinguishing players from "manual" bots.

It's either that or the "they just only ban the spammers/advertisers becuase bots make up a significant portion of the playerbase" thing people keep mentioning

[SalemP]

So I noticed after this latest "RMT and Illicit Activity" kick that an FC of bots on my server haven't logged in at all so I assume they were caught in the wave but I noticed when I searched for their FC that it still exists with all it's members intact, their just offline, so I guess what my question is, do they only temporarily ban automated bots?

If someone is caught, and SE cares enough to do something, they will ban the account. What this means is the user controlling the character(s) will no longer have access to the character(s) on that account. However, they do not delete characters. So those characters (and the FC) would still exist. But they'll never be online bc the account was banned.

The reason for this was something along the lines of: in case the ban was in error or the account needed to be restored for whatever reason, the character information would still be stored in the system.

[SalemP]

Another mining bot in Southern Thanalan. This one's fairly new I think. He's only level 37.

At first I thought maybe it was a regular player botting since he has a fairly normal name, but searching him on the Lodestone shows that he is indeed only used for botting. He's THM lv 10 and MIN lv 37, no other classes leveled. Reported him all the same. I hope he gets banned.

[ToffeeCoffee]

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