Quote Originally Posted by Gilthas View Post
The two bots that I mentioned farming nodes in the Central Shroud are ridiculously obvious to anyone that spends time observing them. No human player can run the exact same circuits every time. Sometimes they even become completely synched.

Hell, in the beginning they used to jump to try and disguise themselves and would jump at the exact same spot of their circuit every time. Nowadays they just don't bother with that since SE obviously refuses to ban them.
This botting problem and the lack of attempting to fix it in FF14 has been around since 1.0. A lot of the players I and others reported back then are actually still around to this day, having gone unpunished and reaping the rewards for their cheating. I used to send detailed reports all the time to the task force but like others, just gave up hope when I saw nothing was ever going to be done about it.

I still remember 3 sheep bots in Coerthas(talking 1.0 here) who monopolized the best spot for a year+ and they botted away till the moment the calamity took place.
Fast forward to today and I too witnessed everything else others have mentioned in this thread. Whether I report them or not doesn't change the fact that i can head to that exact same spot 3+ months later and see the exact same people doing the exact same thing(Not implying i don't send in reports anymore, I still do for some reason).