Frontline Bots

[Madepossible]

Unless they don't fix the current PvP system, I don't mind the bots! Makes the games faster I guess, too bad if ur in the bots team rippp LOL! But since I don't even take PvP system serious anymore, I really don't care cos why should I if I'm so limited to a certain amount of skills I can use? Just mindlessly pressing the PvP macro button and get in xp IMHO!

[Taika]

I would imagine SE would be pretty quick to ban players who are obviously botting when being reported?

[loreleidiangelo]

I would imagine SE would be pretty quick to ban players who are obviously botting when being reported?

I'm...guessing you don't play PVP much? I don't mean this in a rude way, but bots/speedhackers/other kinds of shit have been reported for ages upon ages with pretty much nothing being done about it. I THINK the one speedcasting BLM in ranked finally got a temp ban after virtually a whole season of doing it? But I can't remember.

The devs basically shut down premade 4s because of wintrading and the lack of willingness to do anything about it. Deleted a whole MODE because they couldn't be arsed to police it. LOL XIV PVP.

[Taika]

I'm...guessing you don't play PVP much? I don't mean this in a rude way, but bots/speedhackers/other kinds of shit have been reported for ages upon ages with pretty much nothing being done about it. I THINK the one speedcasting BLM in ranked finally got a temp ban after virtually a whole season of doing it? But I can't remember.

No I don't, that's a real shame to hear.

[Moonlite]

I would imagine SE would be pretty quick to ban players who are obviously botting when being reported?

Uhmm no. PvP/PvE they pay they don't get banned. We have had whole servers report people all through ARR and HW's they still play. They also have no proactive tracking software from the looks of it.

[Awful]

The devs don't care about PvP I stopped queuing for ranked after I ran into the same team in Gold because their FC was trying to win trade early in the A.M on NA. We kept getting them 3 times in a row and they literally just threw themselves at us and /dancing and they stopped queuing after the 3rd match when they sorta tried.

And SE never removed any rewards all people had to say was "I was teaching my friends how to PvP or heal in PvP etc" and they'd say okay. It's pretty shameful to know that the top people who have these exclusives win traded and got away with it multiple seasons. Great that it's solo but it's such a shitty fix because for the people who wanted group PvP with their friends can't and SE deleted a whole PvP mode because they can't police their own ranked matches. Brilliant.

Bots have always been rampant in PvP the only reason people care about it now is because it gives good exp and Wolf marks for nothing. People milk it and SE can't do anything about the bots so PvP was dead before, but now it's even more dead because of the changes and bots.

What's sad is that SE wanted to make this an Esport which is friggen laughable and made every PvPer die laughing in their chair. Like get serious SE fix your issues, make PvP good, ban people, get rid of the bots and just maybe you can salvage this mess.

[Rufalus]

The places I notice bots the most now are frontlines and Fringes. That zone has fate farm bots 24/7 on my world, all with their generic yellow choco companions, a thick cluster of them moving together. It would be huge for the game if S-E could identify which people have these cheat programs installed and ban them all. Just imagine a game world where every character is a real person, thinking and acting independently!

[KageTokage]

The places I notice bots the most now are frontlines and Fringes. That zone has fate farm bots 24/7 on my world, all with their generic yellow choco companions, a thick cluster of them moving together. It would be huge for the game if S-E could identify which people have these cheat programs installed and ban them all. Just imagine a game world where every character is a real person, thinking and acting independently!

In all honesty, the only bots they should need any of kind of auto-ban detection for are those warp-hacking gil farmers, as they're being mass-produced through an automated script similar to the RMT spammers.

The other ones like the levelers and gatherers could easily be kept under control if they just had a GM or two dedicated to hunting them down.

[eschaton]

PC players.

Here's a question while you opened the can of worms anyway; there are quite a few right, this is full automation... Now, how many PC users do you imagine are using 'gaming hardware+software' to automate a lot (like target, rotation, potion, call-out), but not everything like this? Let me answer it for you: even more.

Best is to ignore them and play the way you like to play. When ignoring them becomes impossible, things are bound to change anyway.

[NinjaTaru72]

PC players.

Here's a question while you opened the can of worms anyway; there are quite a few right, this is full automation... Now, how many PC users do you imagine are using 'gaming hardware+software' to automate a lot (like target, rotation, potion, call-out), but not everything like this? Let me answer it for you: even more.

Best is to ignore them and play the way you like to play. When ignoring them becomes impossible, things are bound to change anyway.

Well that's against the rules, so ban them too. Shouldn't be breaking rules in the first place.