They honestly don't seem to understand how to address the botting issue when the only "lasting" measures they've taken against it so far were band-aid fixes that were laughably easy to get around.

They made it so the Report RMT function will auto-mute the RMT spammers if they say certain things, but now they just break up their sentences with weird symbols.

They introduced that "The fish sense something amiss" mechanic to prevent macro/bot fishing in the same spot for prolonged periods, but it's easily circumvented by just casting your line at a different fishing hole every once in a while, and programming variables that will tell the bot to do so seems fairly trivial judging from what I've seen both gathering and FATE bots doing (The former will adjust their collectible rotations in response to Discerning Eye procs, while the latter know how to heal themselves and/or flee if they're in danger of dying).

They moved the items the bots were farming for gil in Amdapor Keep to a boss chest later in the dungeon, which didn't matter at all because the bots just teleport over there instead and go about their business as usual.


They don't need anything other then a competent team policing the small-scale botters, as their numbers are low enough even on high population servers they could be cleaned out in a matter of days if they know what to look for and don't rely exclusively on faulty monitoring tools to pass judgment. There's literally no way to differentiate a properly programmed bot from a real player judging strictly from the data they're sending the server, and I'd assume the few people who do get punished are spamming the server with invalid/faulty data from a shoddy bot that their monitoring tools easily catch, while the guys who keep getting away with it only manage to do so because they're not actually observing them in person to see how abnormal they look.