SE any plans to deal with the sickening amount of non rmt bots and cheaters going on?

[Galdous]

Any plans to deal with the radar using hacks that high end FC's use to snipe hunt targets within 30 seconds of it spawning? What about the FC's who use 20-100 bots and own multiple mansions under different alts. RMT is a big issue but when more people cheat themselves then buy gil from RMT sales it is as big of or if not a bigger problem then rmt is.

[KyteStones]

I haven't seen any in HW yet. Seems like people are pretty active/busy. I'm assuming that's because the levels are higher there and the death count must rack up using a bot? I dunno, reaching at straws here.

I was going to buy a FC house only to see that there's none left on the server (last time i checked pre 3.0) and it's become this thing where well, I server transferred and lost my FC home and was foolish to think I could get another so fast after transferring.

I've given up on ever being able to afford a house again. I don't have it in me to spend weeks crafting ever again just to afford a small plot. I just...never again..

[Galdous]

Goto Thanalan. All the bots are there. Not rmt but normal people who bot.

[Ergumenus]

Considering that the botting and cheating has been rampant since launch, I doubt they have any plans. I don't think it's too outlandish to assume that over half the player base at this point either bot, cheat, or both. Lots of things point to this.. like how the people who are actually concerned about it are a minority.

You can tell that the players who bot and cheat aren't worried about getting banned or anything. There are entire FC's dedicated to botting/cheating, and they do it openly and blatantly. Can't say that I blame them honestly, they probably just thought "if you can't beat em, join em" after spending months reporting bots/cheaters that are probably still there today.

Obviously money is more important to SE than the integrity of the game. (at least on the NA side of things)

[Galdous]

It is not that bad yet but it is fast getting there. Only a few hundred out of each server at most. I am not counting RMT chinese farming companies. I am talking about high end FC's and normal people who can pay 5 bucks for a bot now and make 20 million gil from farming 24/7. One FC in particular has over 5-10 billion gil they divide up into bank FC's. Se has twice taken funds out of their vault but it was onyl a drop in the bucket.