Botting must go!!!

[coldreactive]

You can also report bots whenever you see them. Continue to do so, and Square might somehow someday make an anti-botting patch. I made a video describing how to see bots and whatnot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLDecBXNuY&hd=1

[Sartori]

You can also report bots whenever you see them. Continue to do so, and Square might somehow someday make an anti-botting patch. I made a video describing how to see bots and whatnot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLDecBXNuY&hd=1

Once again waste of time

[Basch1990]

I've reported plenty of them several times and watched them get away with it... in siren server you go to eastern shroud there is a bot there mining non stop and I`'ve reported it 20 times in the last weak and it is still there... and about the shards it takes an hour to mine 1000 of them and I do it every day posting up shards so you don't need bots for that

[coldreactive]

I've reported plenty of them several times and watched them get away with it... in siren server you go to eastern shroud there is a bot there mining non stop and I`'ve reported it 20 times in the last weak and it is still there... and about the shards it takes an hour to mine 1000 of them and I do it every day posting up shards so you don't need bots for that

Some FCs also promote botting (As I mentioned in that video of mine.) I've already had two FCs in Ragnarok with reported bots that normally were legit players back in 2.2.

[Zaft]

The Warden

Yes, and some bots have a program called Tripwire which is literally a Warden to watch the Warden and prevents Warden from seeing anything useful.

All Warden does is spook people who don't know better.

[Marxam]

All of this can be easily solved by only allowing accounts to have a max of 8 characters instead of 40. Who has time other than botters, rmt, and possible sentient life to lvl 40 characters just so they can sub and mule and stuff.

I don't know about you guys but 5 rmt sellers restricted to 8 characters per account sounds a lot better than 5 rmt sellers with 40 characters to their account. This applies to botting too.

[Titor]

All of this can be easily solved by only allowing accounts to have a max of 8 characters instead of 40. Who has time other than botters, rmt, and possible sentient life to lvl 40 characters just so they can sub and mule and stuff.

I don't know about you guys but 5 rmt sellers restricted to 8 characters per account sounds a lot better than 5 rmt sellers with 40 characters to their account. This applies to botting too.

But you can only be on one character at a time and they ban the entire account not the character so there would not be a difference really.

[Shadray]

SE has to make sure the bots make enough money before they ban them. That way they buy the game again.

[Basch1990]

The fact remains that there are many different ways of discouraging bots and SE isnt doing much about it... my blacklist has over 100 bots I have reported and climbing yet 1 or 2 are deleted every week that are on there...

[Adormus]

The fact remains that there are many different ways of discouraging bots and SE isnt doing much about it... my blacklist has over 100 bots I have reported and climbing yet 1 or 2 are deleted every week that are on there...

And what exactly would those ways be? The whole game is a giant grind fest. Grind Gil, grind crafting mats, grind for your relic, Spirit Bonding, Chocobo leveling, grind Tomestones. I certainly understand people who don't want to do that kind of stuff and instead just buy a few million Gil. Did you see the Gil prices out there? It's about 3€ per Million. Even if you would make a million per hour (which is unrealistic beyond reason), you'd still be "working" for 3€/h. And don't tell me "This is a game and thus not comparable to work!"

No, grinding is work. It's not fun but repetitive. I don't even mind bots at all. They're not impacting my gameplay in any way.