Is there any better way of reporting Bots?

[KageTokage]

I have a hard time not being pessimistic when I've played cheap F2P MMOs that took their botting issues more seriously despite them having no hope of being able to curb the issue even slightly due to how easy it was for anyone to mass-produce bots with no sub fee involved.

It's not a big problem here, but that doesn't mean it should be ignored by any means when things like PvP bots are still directly disruptive to the experience of others when they're effectively throwing the game for their teamI. They could at least do something about those.

[Maero]

I always report them because they are a pita and it goes by waves as sometimes they are worst. Currently they are not too bad
Not like it does anything but sometimes i mark bots as target to attack or whatever

[Iscah]

Hmm... you could make them show up in the text log by emoting at them! (A suitable use for that overspammed-by-quests /doubt emote finally?)

[Cakekizyy]

Hmm... you could make them show up in the text log by emoting at them! (A suitable use for that overspammed-by-quests /doubt emote finally?)

That's not proof of anything though.

[Iscah]

I meant for what I was talking about earlier - a way to get their names into the chat log so they can be targeted for the quick "report RMT" option.

[Cakekizyy]

I meant for what I was talking about earlier - a way to get their names into the chat log so they can be targeted for the quick "report RMT" option.

But that would be abusing it by using to report non-rmt. Good way to get suspended I would think.

[KageTokage]

I wish they had a quick report option for cheaters in general.

It gets tiresome having to fill out the same form over and over again when you're likely not even going to get any results.

[Iscah]

But that would be abusing it by using to report non-rmt. Good way to get suspended I would think.

Well, that's what I was asking about earlier (and didn't actually get a direct answer for, because the discussion shifted off into whether it was possible to access their names in the chat log in the first place).

So:

Are the stack-of-identical-bots-playing-MSQ doing so to earn money to be used in RMT? If not, what is their purpose?

And even if they are not doing that, would reporting all of them at once be enough to draw the management team's attention to the fact they are clearly bots? How closely do they look at the recorded actions of the reported player - would they notice that all four are moving in sync?

It's frustrating that there is a quick report option only for RMT and not for anything else - and for that matter, there is never any in-game explanation as to what "RMT" means, or what "abuse of the system" would be. (Using it to hassle genuine players of course would be abusing it, but is reporting bots acceptable or not?) When I was first starting out I was trying to report one of the gil-selling-advertisement bots but with no idea what the only report option meant, and the warning that there would be consequences for its misuse, I had to ask elsewhere.

[KageTokage]

The clone bots are definitely being used for RMT gil farming.

They seemingly transfer their money by buying things from the market board because I've seen them both standing in front of it normally and hacking themselves underneath it.

[Wyvernheart]

Bots killed pvp.