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    KageTokage's Avatar
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    Feb 2017
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    7,092
    Character
    Alijana Tumet
    World
    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Ninja Lv 100
    I've never once mistaken an actual player for a bot before, though there are often half-AFK botters that are doing something else on another screen (Including playing on their main account) and thus still respond if you try to interact with them in the earlier hours of the day.

    When there's more then one of them present at the same nodes, it becomes painfully obvious because there aren't that many botting programs out there and thus most bots are running the exact same script and mirror each other's movements perfectly. Even if they aren't together, they're still noticeable from how they move between a precise set of coordinates, which gives them an extremely jerky and often inefficient movement pattern (They'll pretty much never take anything resembling the most direct path between nodes, oft flying needlessly high in the air or even running straight past an unspoiled node then doubling back to it), and also because of how they never turn while they aren't in motion and always jump in place before they take flight in HW/SB zones, then suddenly whip around to face whatever they need to be flying in.

    I feel like the STF probably isn't actually even looking at them if they seriously think they're innocent with the huge blanket list of quirks they exhibit compared to actual players, and I'm particularly sour about it with 4.4 on the horizon, meaning there'll be a fresh market for these guys to crash within a week or two of the patch's release.
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    Last edited by KageTokage; 09-08-2018 at 06:46 PM.