Besides the Gil Sellers... there is also BOTS

[NinjaTaru72]

Trade locks seem to honestly be the best(and most entertaining) way to screw bots over lol. Ive trade. Locked a few. Bots who were mid quest getting ready to teleport to limsa (it was the same point in the quest my alt was on) and I trade locked them causing a few of them to be stuck standing around and for a few hours lol

[MilesSaintboroguh]

so as messed up as this may seem, (never tried it) but if you do see one of these bots and want to spoil the "fun" go fetch a monster, equip a healer class and let the AOE hit the bot and you heal the monster lol. Repeat until the bot is dead. (this is assuming you can even heal the enemy)

Uhh no you can't heal enemies at all. It'd be a stupid for it to be allowed and it has too much griefing potential.

[Kosmos992k]

Trade locks seem to honestly be the best(and most entertaining) way to screw bots over lol. Ive trade. Locked a few. Bots who were mid quest getting ready to teleport to limsa (it was the same point in the quest my alt was on) and I trade locked them causing a few of them to be stuck standing around and for a few hours lol

I think it very much depends on the botting software, I remember perhaps a year or so ago, we could trade-lock bots, but then the bots became wise to the trick and started automatically refusing trades, or otherwise avoiding them. I'm surprised and pleased to hear it's still a successful tactic.

[Voltron_HD]

Uhh no you can't heal enemies at all. It'd be a stupid for it to be allowed and it has too much griefing potential.

yea true, didn't think about that one. Well then trade lock it is.

[Gemma]

I think it very much depends on the botting software, I remember perhaps a year or so ago, we could trade-lock bots, but then the bots became wise to the trick and started automatically refusing trades, or otherwise avoiding them. I'm surprised and pleased to hear it's still a successful tactic.

Sadly, its not a successful tactic anymore. Most bot programs have a thing where if their HP gets too low they force log out and log back in and continue what they were doing. I've tried killing tons of bots I find on Balmung and they are like cockroaches they just wont die and they multiply! lol

[HaelseMikiro]

For months now the same chars (from same FC) have been standing in the same place, not moving, and fighting the same things over and over by casting. Strange way to play the game.

The surprising thing was last night they were lying there dead instead - I wonder if some game mechanic changed or if their positioning was off for some reason.

I transferred off Diabolos months ago,are you referring to the group of 5-6 bots spiritbinding in north shroud, all wearing gear crafted by a person with the initials P.M., in a FC whose tag is just the same number repeated? Because I reported them multiple times over multiple months, and the trail on that is so easy to follow i have no idea why they would still be there unbanned