Regarding Bot-driven Gil Farmers

[Seyoun]

I've surveyed servers: Coeurl, Siren, Cactuar, Jenova, Faerie, Hyperion, Leviathan and have found the operation exists on
those listed in bold.

The identification process is fast, simple, and will tell you what characters on your server are botting Ephemeral nodes for mad, mad profit.

- Open Player Search.
- Click "Search Conditions"
- If on PC, right-click any icon in the Class/Job list. That will unselect all of them.
- Click the Miner and Botanist job icons. Bottom row, first two.
- In the "Level" section. Limit your search to Min: 60, Max: 60
- In the "Location" section. Limit your search to Coerthas, Abalathia, Dravania
- In the "Language" section. Choose all languages.
- Search.

The result set should not be large since we typically don't see dozens of max-level miners and botanists in just those three regions unless a patch with new gathering items just dropped. Right click each name and "View Search Info'. Skip people who are AFK. Your candidate will have one job leveled to 60 and maybe another leveled to 15 but no others leveled or even unlocked. I've found BLM 60, ARC 15, and ACN 1 (for 1337 healz) to be the setup in use.

If you find a character on your server that matches the above descriptions, you may have a problem.

Go to a marketboard and look at these items: Crystals, Clusters, (NOT shards), and Adamantite ore. You are looking for stacks of thousands of crystals and clusters being sold by a small number of retainers (3 or less) and multiple 99 stacks of adamantite ore.

Now go to the "Character Search" page on the Lodestone. Enter the candidate's name and limit the search to your world.

On their profile, click the link to view their Free Company. You should find that it is a closed FC with a very small number of members (4 or less) with the other members being all level 1s though there may be a second gathering bot in the FC.

If the candidate meets all criteria listed in this post, you've likely discovered the gathering bot supplying the retainers selling on the marketboard.