Bit Concerned On Something I Saw Reading the Patch Notes

[Nedkel]

Huh, interesting. Have you guys checked the members of each FC? 20+ members with JKTANSXK-like names.

If i would have anything to say here, i would just throw the bans left and right on the players like that.

I may ban one or two people who are actually playing with nickname like this, but i would got rid of 9000k bots.

I wonder how do they get so many accounts to play with, is there a 30 days free trial on PC version?

[DamianFatale]

China bots everywhere, just ban the entire country from accessing other servers, problem solved.
There is actually the game where they banned china access to other servers and the amount of bots dropped by 90%, it was silkroad and phantasy star online i guess.

Do it, just do it SE, ban them all and move them to their own server.

-slow clap- This is what we need.

[ShinMetsu]

Really Really don't think this is people shooting for housing, not sure if people trolling or not.

But as i said before, this has constantly been happening.
I remember taking a similar screen a while back, went and digged it up. From 2016.

[Enla]

Really Really don't think this is people shooting for housing, not sure if people trolling or not.

But as i said before, this has constantly been happening.
I remember taking a similar screen a while back, went and digged it up. From 2016.

It's not for housing in most cases. I'm pretty sure some bot programming relies upon the FC system in some way because most bots I used to see, even going back to when I first joined, had connecting FC's.

[LaylaTsarra]

It's not for housing in most cases. I'm pretty sure some bot programming relies upon the FC system in some way because most bots I used to see, even going back to when I first joined, had connecting FC's.

I do believe bots create fc's as a means of using a FC chest for storage of assets (gathering items) and for transferring gil to alts so they can horde/store it. I'd be surprised if those buying houses to flip or sell would be using bot like names but I could be wrong.

[Awful]

Skynet is online we need a Lalafel John Connor now to save us

[Loki]

if we have to "fight" against bots it's already lost, they can TP where they want etc so once again all the houses will be bought in 5min, great

And the idea to close the access to China is a good one, they have their own server afterall so kick them from our servers plz ty!

[VampiricDemise]

I wasn't meaning to bring strife over this. I know that bots have plagued this game and other online games for years. Just my concern is the possibility of this situation of potentially taking plots. Especially since there is still a human at the far end of the bot and scripting, they could take into account of this opportunity in a week.

Also if this does happen, would the plot then be rendered unable to be purchaed due to removal or would it open up again immediately? This is also another detail that is mentioned on a player level but not an FC level in housing.

Again, I meant no harm with this and just wanted to bring some attention to this. This all may or may not be something potentially cancerous to an already touchy subject for some players (housing and its limited availability of plots). I just don't want to see legitimate FCs getting locked out of getting their housing plot after all this time because bots have decided to do something out of the norm for XIV.

[Final-Fantasy]

They are not interested in spending Gil on Company housing, they are amassing Gil and using the Company bank to store and process it.

What I think they do is, join the Company with all the Characters to be used in Parties of 4 and 8, usually 24 - 72 members, only THM/BLM and ARC/BARD are used for ranged exploitation, they play through the MSQ (ARR only, Lv.1 to 50) using a tool to Warp between NPC. Once they have completed MSQ they dump the Gil in the bank and start over. 300,000 Gil X 72 Characters = 21,600,000 Gil made in one run to Level 50 MSQ end. This only takes a fraction of the time normally required, as they Warp directly to the next NPC instantly.

I'm not sure what the exact total amount of Gil rewarded through MSQ is, it maybe 600,000 or more so just imagine the huge amount they procure...

And I come to that conclusion from many years of reporting Characters standing through the floor in Gridania's Grandcompany area, standing on the heads of NPCs, its Only BLM and BARD, Always dressed in AF1/AF2 at Lv50, They Warp NPC to NPC, you can sometimes see them at the Company chest in groups at Ul'dah's Grandcompany area, just position yourself beside the wall and move your camera view until the wall glitchs so you can see them standing in total black viod behind the wall, and have often seen them in groups, in the Novice channel list, in story related Dungeons.

Of course I could be wrong, but why else would you check an FC full of Lalafell or Hyur, and see only Lv50 BLM and BARD, only dressed in AF2 from the end of the MSQ and everyones name is Xdhdhd Xfjfhfj with 72 clones, the same starting city, the same nameday, the same everything, none of them have mounts or minions and they're only Lv50.

[KageTokage]

Ever since SB, they've shifted from using BLM/BRD parties to BLM/WHM parties for some reason.

In any case, I'm interested in seeing if the loot change they've made to certain dungeons will even hinder them at all.