I know that there are TONS of RMT threads out there, I will admit, and this thread is going to be one of them. But, hear me out on this one.

We already have a way for relaying RMT activity in the game through a window in the Help & Support tab. However, why not let the devs and the STF have extra help by us players?

I propose that there should be a whole section with reporting on RMT bots being in an area in it's own little box. Here is what I am proposing.

Us players can use the windows that displays a map of our current location on a map that is not being used for in-game play such as harvesting/gathering/quest icons/etc. . Yes, a map in another window by itself. It will display our location of our character with a blue arrow. However, this map will allow us to leave dots/markers on the server, or a small circle of the area that the RMT bots appear; like popping up out of the ground or disappearing, or even attacking monsters en masse with a blue circle highlighting the small area on the map of where the RMT are appearing. These special maps will vary by each of the servers to reflect which loopholes in the game's coding where the RMT appear. Other players can access the same map but when they highlight the area they see RMT, the area will appear in a red circle ping; however if your own blue circle intersects with another player's, it will become purple to show common ground. If it is in the same area multiple people are reporting, a bubble will show up to indicate how many players PING an area that's a hit with a large RMT population. I was thinking of a shortcut being <posrmt> as your position and then the RMT added so that it labels the reporting map of where the RMTs are appearing.

By using this data, it can be sent to GMs and STF members so they know the areas where RMTs are appearing. Most commonly RMTs are either THM/BLM or ARC/BRD, and will appear outside either Ul'dah or Gridania and sometimes even Limsa Lominsa, or even in the cities. However the ONLY bad thing is that we cannot do this RMT map marking when in dungeons as RMT usually party with each other so it is hard to find one in an instance dungeon (I could be wrong as people have said they have seen RMT in dungeons with them in the past). The GMs and STF members will be notified of the areas on the map where RMT area appearing, and if very similar patterns are showing up on each of the many servers, the GMs/STF can ultimately pinpoint the areas the RMT are appearing at by claiming them (I'm not sure what the GMs or STF members do if they even see an RMT bot character, so I don't know how to put it, lol), and essentially plug the leak of where they are appearing. Plugging the leak is a term I am using so that the devs can then strengthen the design of the area so that there is no flaw where hacking software can allow bot characters to target NPCs or monsters, or even gathering items (the devs could actually plug the leak of how the mapping is done by doing it at all of the harvesting points where gathers can go to get items, thereby cutting down on RMT harvesting of Crystals!), or even attacking monsters or gathering below the ground map.

Long story short: so if us players can pinpoint with a highlighting icon of our position, it can highlight a server wide map of places where people have seen RMT appearing. The data can then be compiled and sent to the GMs and STF so they are aware of which areas in any of the maps that RMT bots are appearing. By plugging these holes or having a character flagged when a GM/STF member is there at the scene, it can make their job easier with us players helping them using a new system!