Quote Originally Posted by Nabril View Post
One way Blizzard is fighting it is that they recently contracted out to a company that writes really great detection software that was finally able to pinpoint Bots with pretty good accuracy.
I can pinpoint the bots without software, most players can too. I'm pretty sure SE could write their own data analysis scripts, and probably have.

However I also suspect that SE is cherry-picking what to spend time investigating. I've seen two patterns of "buttonmash" bots, I've seen a few that were not WHM/BLM, and at least two over level 50. The key place to intercept the bots to prevent RMT is the Waking Sands, because all the RMT bots has to pass through it to do the MSQ. But to catch who is actually "buying" the RMT, they need someone to log every player that targets the Free Company chest, and when players join and leave the FC.

The biggest way to destroy the FC loophole is by preventing players from being able to pull gil out until rank 5. However I don't actually know yet what the bots are doing yet at the FC chest because you can't target them by clicking on them. SE could "fix" this itself by making the FC chest only allow activation from the front.