Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Exactly, which is why I was confused that you seemed to be responding to my quoted comment that trial accounts can't accrue a lot of gil, by saying that they're doing it through the company chest - without mentioning you were now talking about paid accounts.

I do realise that I never actually said "therefore the bots can't be trial accounts", which is what I was implying in the first place.
This point gets brought up a lot because every time this topic comes up, people are talking about "bots" but then when the FC is brought up, they have to be paid. I also pointed out a few times that some of these gibberish name bots are level 60.

Without SE throwing some kind of roadcone at level 30 to block them from getting any farther, they are generally unimpeded going through the MSQ. One bandaid solution there is to change how some of the MSQ quests work to have RNG employed. However based on just what the game client does, the reason the bots can operate at all is because the LUT's for all the quests are in the game client, so no matter what is thrown in front of the bot, the bot simply reads the next step in the quest. Something has to be thrown at the bot that isn't in the game client to trip them up, that a normal player would just see as optional. In Mabinogi they had "harder" monsters in sets of easy monsters because the bots just tab-targeted everything and you could easily get the bots killed by spawning a harder monster with the same name. The problem is that the network data actually says this monster has more HP, so it would likely just ignore it. But perhaps the solution would be change the AI of that monster to "persue mercilessly", ignoring resets and enmity. So if the monster can't hit the bot, then bot goes to jail, where as a player would undoubtly be hit, even if they were on a mount.