What is being doing against botters?

[akenatoth]

The situation with Bots on Lich is just crazy.

I've been afk in Bronze Lake for about 1h and I found the notification, in chat, of around 60 bots all dinging lvl 35.

Clearly someone has industrialized the whole botting process, and they're not even trying to hide.
Is Square Enix doing anything about it?

Edit: I counted them, but they were getting more... 87.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Probably RMT bots...
All jibberish names?


You can't really get rid of these, they're recreated as fast as they're banned.
The important thing in the fight against rmt is to get the accounts holding the money, depriving them access to their stock.

These farm bots aren't important to the rmt.
They are easily replaced.

[akenatoth]

Yeah, I tried to post the names but I was 1k characters over the allowed limit.
If they're all lvl 35 I guess they're not disappearing all that fast.

Can they get this far with a trial account?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Yeah, I tried to post the names but I was 1k characters over the allowed limit.

First, even though they may be obviously RMT bots, there's a no names rule on the forums.
So you shouldn't post names.

Second, you can edit your post to bypass the character limit.
Just write it out, copy and then paste while editing.

[Hasrat]

Yeah, I tried to post the names but I was 1k characters over the allowed limit.
If they're all lvl 35 I guess they're not disappearing all that fast.

Can they get this far with a trial account?

They're bots. How long do you expect them to take to accomplish anything? They can probably bot their way to 35 in less than a day.

[Nabril]

They're bots. How long do you expect them to take to accomplish anything? They can probably bot their way to 35 in less than a day.

I can get there in a day by hand.

[StouterTaru]

When you see bots leveling, that means several were just banned. They have it automated, do it en masse, and will often warp to/through out-of-bounds areas.

[Enla]

Honestly at this point I wish SE would just change their approach and go after the people supplying the code for the bots, rather than take months to a year to go after the users. Blizzard took their own cheaters to court and won a fairly hefty judgement against them, and I don't see why SE couldn't try to as well. Instead of just banning them, go after their livelihoods. You'd have to find some of them of course, but SE likely has enough money and a good enough legal team to eventually do it.

[CuteMoonMoon]

Even they Do the BANs, it take several months to ban 1 by reporting BOTs almost every day, Make the BANs not effective.

[MageBlack]

"Cut off one head, two more will take its place".

- Hail Hydra!