Thread: Patch 3.4: Where are we with Gil Spammers

Originally Posted by Atoli

You could hang out in Ishgard
They can't get into HW areas, that's why you are safe in Idyllshire, but Ishgard is also a HW area - and it has a market board

I also get gil spam in Ishgard, Idyllshire, hell even Hinterlands. Far less common than in the housing wards and original zones but still is a thing in HW areas.

I believe they're working on a context menu report feature at least...

Originally Posted by Lisotte

I also get gil spam in Ishgard, Idyllshire, hell even Hinterlands. Far less common than in the housing wards and original zones but still is a thing in HW areas.

I think they were referring to the /say spam around marketboards.

That said, it's not that they CAN'T get into Ishgard, it's more along the lines of it's a waste of time getting a spambot to Ishard given how obviously bannable their actions are. The bots to be concerned about in HW areas aren't spamming, they're generating gil and trying to fly under the radar.

Originally Posted by aesteval

That said, it's not that they CAN'T get into Ishgard, it's more along the lines of it's a waste of time getting a spambot to Ishard given how obviously bannable their actions are.
The bots to be concerned about in HW areas aren't spamming, they're generating gil and trying to fly under the radar.

They can't get into Ishgard on an ARR license
So additionally to the (very low) cost of an ARR license they'd need a serious time investment AND the extra cost of a (not quite as cheap yet) HW expansion.

The bots I've seen in HW areas were all regular players who had a bot running to do the gathering for them, not "corporate" farmbots which tend to stay in ARR even after hitting 50.

Originally Posted by Atoli

They can't get into Ishgard on an ARR license
So additionally to the (very low) cost of an ARR license they'd need a serious time investment AND the extra cost of a (not quite as cheap yet) HW expansion.

The bots I've seen in HW areas were all regular players who had a bot running to do the gathering for them, not "corporate" farmbots which tend to stay in ARR even after hitting 50.

^^^^^^^^^^^
The best reason to oppose the suggestions about story skipping or MSQ collapsing to facilitate easy access to new areas. Forcing all players to go through MSQ, as well as have the expansion license, definitely cut's down on the number of RMT Bots outside of ARR zones.

Originally Posted by HaelseMikiro

1) Make crystals (shards) no longer used for crafting, so RMT gatherers make less gil from us on the MB

The bots appear to have moved onto ephemeral and legendary nodes. So they're into crystals, clusters, aethersands, and other high level mats now. The maybe good news is that the suspected bot that I've seen doesn't have high enough gathering stats to collect HQ legendary mats.

Every time I go to Limsa I have to blacklist a /say spamming gil seller. Sometimes there's more than one.

I recall the dev team mentioning the creation of a streamlined method of reporting such bots a while back, but have heard nothing of it since.