Regarding Bot-driven Gil Farmers

[aesteval]

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.

Also look at Landborne and Leafborne Aethersands and legendary / folklore node mats. They're being hit.

Otherwise, everything you described perfectly matches a character and FC I found on Ultros and was suspicious of. I became suspicious of this character when they would repeatedly perform odd teleports that a normal player would not repeatedly do. Everything you mentioned for IDing them made me more suspicious. It's just a shame that I can't personally prove they're gathering 24/7, but devs and GMs should be able to easily check logs and see that and do something about these bots. Hopefully they pay attention to reports.

[Seyoun]

...Hopefully they pay attention to reports.

Have you submitted a report? And did you use the form to report directly to the STF that Synesthetic mentioned earlier in this thread?

...The layout of the lodestone changes once in a while, but currently, go to "Help and Support" > "Customer Service Suggestions & Feedback Bug Report"
and scroll down to the bottom to "Report a case to the Special Task Force".

If not, please consider doing that. Perhaps even include a link to this thread.

[Seyoun]

...I became suspicious of this character when they would repeatedly perform odd teleports that a normal player would not repeatedly do.

Do you mean things like:

- Sitting mid-air at a Legendary node, ostensibly waiting for it to pop, but when it does immediately teleporting to another area where Ephemerals are up. Then doing this same thing at the next legendary pop, and the next, and so on.

- Arriving at an Ephemeral node, not having done anything in that area yet, dismounting, doing one or *zero* collectibles, then teleporting to the area of the next Legendary node. Then at the Legendary pop, doing exactly what I described in the first bullet point.

[Seyoun]

Also look at Landborne and Leafborne Aethersands and legendary / folklore node mats. They're being hit.

Our leafborne and landborne are down to 7.5k...in stacks of 99. I'm sure the newly released 3.4 legendary mats will be next once the bot is geared up.