design an in-game player based, applied for task force. these players would be granted a couple new abilities:
*Teleport to the reported bot location.
*Arrest (the bot) - actully just teleports the bot to an in-game jail house, say the gladiator arena in Uldah.

key elements of this program:
*Bot cops cannot perform these duties on their home server/world.
*Bot cops remain completely anonymous.
*In order to remain in the program a player must register a minimum of 14 hrs per week "on duty"
*Incentive to partake in this volunteer program, the selected players will gain an exp bonus equal to the amount of time "on duty"
*Bot cops get to ride around on a black/white chocobo.

*Judges (GM's) will be the issuing authority for an arrest warrant, and the oversight for this program.
*Arrested bots sent to jail must petition to a Judge (GM) to be released within 1 hour of arrest or that players account becomes suspended for a duration determined by SE.
*If a player is found guilty that character will be publicly executed with a world wide message stating their name their crime and punishment.
*The world wide message will be a new feature that will display in the upper center of the screen.
*Players misreporting bots will be warned the first offense, arrested and sent to jail second offense, progressive suspensions thereafter .
heheheh

Not sure I could be bothered but it sounds fun, it would be like being a Bladerunner

This bot thing puzzles me, probably coz i am like the most noobynoob ever where mmos' are concerned but... surely if a character is always near Red Labyrinth , has 2 or 3 r50 classes and is still killing doblyns, and since starting the game has visited atherite 1 (home city) 2 (Limsa) 3 (Uldah) 4 (Cactus Basin) 5 (Red Labyrinth) and that is all.... then how can there be any question that the character is not a bot?

aaah.... bless his weathered survival pants xxx


I do find the bots around Red Labyrinth interfere with my game, it was hard enough for a glad grinding dobs to compete with the legitimate archers running around slaughtering everything in seconds, let alone the bots that turn up still after weeks of being r50?

I cant be arsed to play Bladerunner, but unless I am missing something really obvious, each characters history is freely available on lodestone, surely it is easy to prove if or not a bot is a bot or what?

To bot or not to bot.... wot was the question? ;p