Fisher Exploit, Tool, Hack, Cheat?

[Culfinrandir]

While there's definitely a lot of botting and scripting going on in gathering, in this case, macros slow down gathering. I've been doing scrips for long enough that it takes me hardly any time at all to slap the buttons and move on.

Macros do indeed slow down things but not to the extent that can be seen on Leviathan when a certain "person" is farming Ephemeral Nodes. I've seen the person appear at a node at exactly 04:00 (pop time) seemingly out of thin air then open, do the rotation, fly to two other nodes (opening & closing) & return to the first node before my simple collectable rotation is completed. It's definitely not just the macro delay. Reporting does nothing. They also manage to be at every 'important' node as it pops 24/7. Log on at 4am because you can't sleep - they're there. Log on at 2pm, 8pm, 1am still farming. >_<

[Caitlinzulu]

Macros do indeed slow down things but not to the extent that can be seen on Leviathan when a certain "person" is farming Ephemeral Nodes. I've seen the person appear at a node at exactly 04:00 (pop time) seemingly out of thin air then open, do the rotation, fly to two other nodes (opening & closing) & return to the first node before my simple collectable rotation is completed. It's definitely not just the macro delay. Reporting does nothing. They also manage to be at every 'important' node as it pops 24/7. Log on at 4am because you can't sleep - they're there. Log on at 2pm, 8pm, 1am still farming. >_<

Sounds very fishy to me indeed.
On the other hand, macro's for gathering :O rotations are so simple there is no point whatsoever to it.
The only time they might be usefull is if i'm to tired/sleepy to press the correct buttons. But perhaps that is a good sign that its time to go to bed though.

Personally i've never seen dodgy gatherers out there. The closest thing i've seen is people teleporting in and out at an aetherite to quickly to actually be legitimate teleports.

[StouterTaru]

Macros do indeed slow down things but not to the extent that can be seen on Leviathan when a certain "person" is farming Ephemeral Nodes. I've seen the person appear at a node at exactly 04:00 (pop time) seemingly out of thin air then open, do the rotation, fly to two other nodes (opening & closing) & return to the first node before my simple collectable rotation is completed. It's definitely not just the macro delay. Reporting does nothing. They also manage to be at every 'important' node as it pops 24/7. Log on at 4am because you can't sleep - they're there. Log on at 2pm, 8pm, 1am still farming. >_<

We've had a bot on Exodus doing Ephemeral Nodes for well over a year. Just did a search and sure enough, 00:00-04:00 game time means he's a botanist in CWH.