Question about "Botting"

[Veji]

Hello, i am relatively new to the game, but not MMOs. I see alot of "bots" in game. Just random people standing still, while not afk for long periods of time, who run to harvesting points and harvest the same x amount of points per whatever the refresh timer is.

Is it perfectly acceptable to run bots in this game? If not, should we report people whom we suspect are botting or how does that work?

[craig_meredith2003]

Hello, i am relatively new to the game, but not MMOs. I see alot of "bots" in game. Just random people standing still, while not afk for long periods of time, who run to harvesting points and harvest the same x amount of points per whatever the refresh timer is.

Is it perfectly acceptable to run bots in this game? If not, should we report people whom we suspect are botting or how does that work?

Yes you can report them and should report them

[Maero]

Yes from time to time i see some as well.
Sometimes botanists but more often then not thaumaturges/black mages and all dressed the exact same
Best to report them.
Basically it is a program they use and there is just 1 operator at the other end, they can even generate or spawn enemies

[KIka93]

lol, reporting...have fun trying to get SE to do anything.

[Renik]

Hello, i am relatively new to the game, but not MMOs. I see alot of "bots" in game. Just random people standing still, while not afk for long periods of time, who run to harvesting points and harvest the same x amount of points per whatever the refresh timer is.

Is it perfectly acceptable to run bots in this game? If not, should we report people whom we suspect are botting or how does that work?

Take care with your reports, gathering in this game is very repetitive, some ppl just act like botters while gathering, bots usualy gather shards, as lvl50 gatherers in starter gear and without FC and GC, and some move underground someway... you can't see them, but you can see the effect in the gathering points and hear the noise they make.

[NoF2P]

Is it perfectly acceptable to run bots in this game? If not, should we report people whom we suspect are botting or how does that work?

It is not acceptable to run bots according to the terms of use, but in practice they are allowed to operate for months despite being reported many times. It is a waste of time to report them.

[meischoice]

I have a very large collection of blacklisted people. All those blacklisted people on my blacklist are names of the RMT spammers who spamed my private message chat in the past.

I even managed max out my blacklist list! (200 names)
I contacted SE through the Support desk and reported every single name on my blacklist. I even organized those names in Alphabetical order for them to make it easier for them.


To this very day, all those names in my blacklist are still visible. Meaning, if they got banned by SE, it would shown (deleted) multiple times in my entire blacklist list.

What gives SE? I'm trying to help out but you seem to do nothing about it!


Just food for though, you could tell right off the bat that those names are spammers.
Who in the right mind would name a character "Fdgdf Dfgd" ?
That is obviously a Spammer type of name, no doubt.

[Riepah]

Feel free to report them, but don't expect SE to do anything about it. I've reported bots often enough, they'll still be there days, weeks later.

[Bixby]

To this very day, all those names in my blacklist are still visible. Meaning, if they got banned by SE, it would shown (deleted) multiple times in my entire blacklist list.

Nope. (Deleted) is only for characters that are actually deleted. They generally don't delete characters when they ban an account, because banning the account is enough to keep that character from doing anything.

[meischoice]

Nope. (Deleted) is only for characters that are actually deleted. They generally don't delete characters when they ban an account, because banning the account is enough to keep that character from doing anything.

Thank you for the clarification!