Seeing people botting in NT and Mor ?

[Drakeos]

Can i actually report them if they are botting like they run to fate use some skills to finish it then runs back to main town to wait for next fate spawn then they run out again ... also never responds to tell or chat ??

[Xanikk999]

Sometimes I think these guys are bots too. One day I shouted there was an S rank mark up in NT and nobody said anything in shout. In fact the Fate train ran right past the S mark. I really wonder if sometimes these people are botting.

[Seunkii]

Sometimes I think these guys are bots too. One day I shouted there was an S rank mark up in NT and nobody said anything in shout. In fact the Fate train ran right past the S mark. I really wonder if sometimes these people are botting.

Maybe they just didn't want to do it? Lots of times when I've farmed FATES for my 3 jobs there, my group never cared about S ranks either since we're there for the XP, and those don't give any worthwhile. Engaging in S ranks might mean missing out on more XP rewarding FATES.

[Lantia]

Sometimes I think these guys are bots too. One day I shouted there was an S rank mark up in NT and nobody said anything in shout. In fact the Fate train ran right past the S mark. I really wonder if sometimes these people are botting.

Totally legit... other players do not response to me AND do not play the game for my effort... must be bots... yeeehaaaa

[Amberyl]

Totally legit... other players do not response to me AND do not play the game for my effort... must be bots... yeeehaaaa

This.

I dual-box fates in Costa, Coerth, Northern, Coerth West, and Churning, on a regular basis. I'm careful about which two classes I pair, and along with the two chocobos, rarely need other players to safely complete everything but the big fates. And I do exactly the same thing - run to town for rested, run out to each fate. I don't bother with hunts, and don't stop to call marks unless I'm feeling particularly charitable. And the amount of times I've been accused of botting... 'Not coming to Dzu? But you have a WHM, and we need a healer! omg, must be a bot!' Like Dzu is even efficient xp for time...

At first I used to waste my time responding to the tells. Now I simply cba with it. I'm trying to quickly level classes I don't have remaining quests for - that doesn't involve stopping to explain myself to every idiot who doesn't have the ability/presence of mind to try the same thing. And as you say, 'omg, you must be a bot if you won't talk to me, me, me, me!' *yawn*

[Culfinrandir]

Yes, many of these are bots and yes it is a reportable offence. Confirmed offenders may be given a ban along with other remedies.

[wicked-one]

Yes, many of these are bots and yes it is a reportable offence. Confirmed offenders may be given a ban along with other remedies.

Just hypothetically (cuz i hate fategrinding)

Proof, that I am not most of the time auto following my buddy, take a few skills when we arrive at a fate, auto follow him again and get back to my two and a half man marathon at the other desktop...

An S Rank isn´t worthwhile, like I personally don´t care much about them anymore.
Waiting for pull, because they wait for half the server to finish their crafts, feeding their chocos, doing their nails - is just 4-5 FATE´s i probably miss.

if you grind, grind properly ;-)

tidious, repeating stuff lures bot´s for sure, but also makes PC´s look like bots,... and just by not responding to you, doesn´t make me a bot automatically.

[Arkann]

North Thanalan is notorious for its bot train. I've been reporting the same people daily for a while when Heavensward launched, but I gave up.

[StouterTaru]

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You pretty much describe me when I went through the ugly FATE grind back in ARR. Sit in town building up rested exp bonus, run to FATE when it pops, kill it, run back to town or to next FATE.

I never respond to tells because I have them filtered out of my chat log. I don't always respond to "chat" from random people in the zone, when I was grinding I normally was watching TV and didn't have my keyboard on me.

[Twilite]

The bots get confused with FATE chains. That's a huge telling sign right there. They simply keep running back and forth.

I went into a DF dungeon once, no-one said hello. Bots. Reported.

LOL this has been bothering me for a while but I don't suspect bots. Now I did run into a tank bot in WP normal..