Why do they even have a "Report cheating" option in-game when I'm told not to use it?

[DrWho2010]

they are not going to advertise how they catch cheaters because then they will figure out a way to not get caught.

[KageTokage]

they are not going to advertise how they catch cheaters because then they will figure out a way to not get caught.

That would be relevant if they even banned the more problematic cheaters in the first place. The only ones they seem to ban are those warp-hacking gil farmers, but those are never created with the intent to last, because their primary source of income (The MSQ) eventually dries up.

The bots I mentioned have owned the houses since the day they added the subdivisions, so they clearly don't know how to catch them to begin with or just don't care. I'm leaning towards the latter considering that PvP is still swamped with them after multiple threads complaining about it.

Still, it was be nice if they could at least reply and say something like "The player in question was not found be performing any illegal activities" so I'd know if I'm wasting my time or not.

[MirageSniper]

Still, it was be nice if they could at least reply and say something like "The player in question was not found be performing any illegal activities" so I'd know if I'm wasting my time or not.

Well..... if you haven't heard anything or still see the player in game, maybe that should be your hint that you are wasting your time?? im not trying to bash, im just saying the hint could be right in front of your face and still not notice it.

[Sueishorisho]

I honestly feel that they aren't as lazy people think and that they have more or less done the best that they can, If you were falsely reported for cheating would you rather a have SE look into the logs following the report, then make a decision based on their findings? or would you rather there be some stupid automated system where if you get reported X times you automatically get banned? If you ask me I would rather have to deal with a handful of rule-breakers that will eventually get banned than have to deal with people that didn't even break ToS getting banned in massive amounts, which I might add people have been wrongfully banned in the past and have had SE overturn their bans as a result

SE strongly discourages cheating and just because they do not take immediate action when someone gets reported does not mean that they wont. they just look at it from the perspective of "innocent until proven guilty" which I think is the more sound way to go about it