DNF Rant Before Patch

[Welsper59]

I've experienced the same thing on Ragnarok. People seem to be botting it, where their character constantly enters races all day, but does nothing in the race, consumes no stamina, just farms last place and doesn't finish races.

I don't think I've ever come across botters that do something as generic as that. In fact, I'd say those people aren't botting. I've gone hours doing the AFK thing in NPC-only races... kinda frustrating in higher ratings to constantly endure bad weather and NPCs that will literally fall back (or rush ahead) to stop you from getting even 7th place.

Side rant: I've had matches where NPCs in 2nd and 3rd place will fall back to 6th (me), JUST to Caltrops and silence me, before they immediately zoom off back to 2nd-4th place. Same with the reverse, where I'm in 1st or 2nd, and immediately get Caltrops by an NPC that I last saw in 7th place... before it immediately decelerates back to 7th or 8th, and remains that way for the rest of the race.

So yeah, for people that want to AFK, I say go for it. Save yourself the migraines as you exp to p9, but don't bot. The bots I've seen though, they tend to have set patterns to how they function. One botter I saw would hold out on accepting every single race for 15sec exactly. During the race, it would not accelerate until 30sec in exactly. At around the 60% point of the track, it would move to the far right "lane" and stay there every race. From certain bots I've come to have first-hand experience with in FFXI, this behavior of mimicking commands with X,Y points is very familiar to me lol.

[Niwashi]

I very much doubt any of those DNF players are botting. If you can set up a bot to keep entering races, you could certainly set it up to run during them, even if it's as simple as just L1 the whole time.

Anyway, other players going AFK during the race cost you a few seconds and in return you get a higher placement in the race yourself, along with the better XP/MGP rewards that come from that. Not that bad of a tradeoff. (I'm actually a little surprised by the number of players complaining "why are you just letting me win?")