RMT Bots in Novice Network! We need help!

[Mimoza]

Hello,
as on Cerberus dramas were happening in the Network about "should we kick bots or not ? it's useless they come back after 30 min anyway..." i filled a GM request and here is the answer i got (in french) : http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/...092-rmtrdn.png

Translation :

Hello Mimoza,

Thank you for contacting FINAL FANTASY XIV service center.

Although we do not have a clear course for RMT characters in the network of novices, we advise you to banish them from the network to keep that content as clean as possible.

Also do not hesitate to report these RMTs so we can banish them quickly and therefore release definitly their places of novice network.

Thank you for your GM call and wish you a pleasant day.

Regards,

So, according to those informations, they clearly advice us, mentors, to kick them after making sure they are definitely RMT/bots (there are some easy way to find out if they are or not, like if they are all BLM/BRD in the same dungeon at the same time with names that sounds like a sneezing cow or using the automatic name generator built-in the game, if they are glitching under the floor, etc...) and fill a report if possible.

I just wanted to share those informations with you all since it seems to be part of the mentor role to keep the network clean even if the bots are not spamming inside.

[AlphaFox]

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I can't imagine anyone taking the time to file a report against every single one of those bots given the current system o.O

[Mimoza]

I think we could try putting every names in the same report since it's for the same "illegal event". I'll try this method next time i notice some on the network.

[Welsper59]

I think we could try putting every names in the same report since it's for the same "illegal event". I'll try this method next time i notice some on the network.

I'd be furious if in doing that, I end up mistyping "Adsesadftv Lllleidndim" for "Adsesadttv Llleidndim" or perhaps cutting off a letter from the sloppy copy/paste method. Having to go back and forth with each of the 63 names because the current chat system is so archaic that it doesn't support a non-convoluted method to provide feedback or reports. Much props to you if you have the patience though lol. I certainly don't.

[Mykll]

Names partially censored per forum rules. But here on Balmung we are combating bots in full swing and cannot keep up with over 3 pages of them!

Is there some way to counter this activity on SE's end?

Wait what? I am not there to partake in the kicking fun?

Last time I was in we started to get a loopy in the brain and started to make the kick messages entertaining. Song versus, etc.

But as always, you can hide the kick spam (if you want to be in the channel and not see the spam.

You know that they can be totally ignored, right? They never say anything in the chat, they never add up far enough to max out they chat. They might be a blight, but people make way too big a deal of this. Hell, the complainers are more annoying at this point.

No one likes RMT, but keep things in perspective.

I don't like seeing a cluttered list and not seeing a CLEAN list of actually real younglings. Whatever you want to call it, OCD, ADD, anal mentality, I like seeing a clean list in there for everyone involved.

Oh what is this? I always saw people from Balmung denying the existance of RMT spam.

There is a HUGE difference between bots and RMT spam. What Balmung has been saying forever is that we really do not get a lot of the RMT Spam (says, shouts, yells, tells, friend invites, etc.). We have NEVER (or we better not have ever said) that we do not have a BOT problem.