The majority of new characters are bots

[Warlyx]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

[RyuSaarva]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

archer is the best class to farm item drops from enemies.

[MaFi0s0]

I checked and the popularity is:

Arch, THM, to a much lesser degree PUG.

In one pic here you can see the demographics of new characters 1-5. 80% are bots! shocking. http://imgur.com/a/gorgG

Well what i have seen in Cerberus server most bots uses Black mage to farm stuff from duty finder (I have seen many bot groups that are afk in same place disappearing and appearing every 5-20 min) and last week i saw was it group of 5-7 Black Mage bots with no-clip hack (I saw them inside the ground killing enemies) and speed hack.

Funny I am seeing the same on Tonberry. LV35-45 BLMs in duty finder with keymash names.

[MaFi0s0]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

That was just one section.

So the list was 200, about 170 were bots. It was a search for new players.


Its dumb a sub based MMO cant do checking for cheating like this, I just watched one teleport to each enemy farming.

[DragonFlyy]

Its dumb a sub based MMO cant do checking for cheating like this.

Pretty much the same for every MMO out there, subscription based or not. They are all plagued with it, and when the company patches the game to stop it, they find a new way. Ban them? They just get more accounts (either buy them or steal them).

[MaFi0s0]

Pretty much the same for every MMO out there, subscription based or not. They are all plagued with it, and when the company patches the game to stop it, they find a new way. Ban them? They just get more accounts (either buy them or steal them).

Yea thats true, its not a big deal for me because I know the economy will suffer regardless, but a simple virtual input detection would go a long way for just making the game more dignified because about every second day I see bots on Tonberry.

The issue tbh is if theres any PvP bots but even WoW has these. What they do is interupt spells for you and counter stuff that should need good reflexes and focus.

[Fourbestintoner]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

They only grind archer to 15 to become blm.

[Warlyx]

They only grind archer to 15 to become blm.

ah so finally learned about JOB , instead of being THM forever

SE needs to start doing something , but like FFXI they are probably overun by bots and by the time they do something is too little to late

but why there are gil selleres ? because there are gil buyers , and why there are gil buyers ? outside glamour items (pets included), and consumables...or maybe leveling DOH/DOH there is little need to have millions of gil

[LunaFaye]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

they didn't get that memo on leviathan. We still do it old school with thm.