Please make "impossible" levels of playing worth investigating for botting

[KageTokage]

I feel like they really ought to just give the GMs power to enforce cheating because they seem a lot more diligent then the STF and with them on the job 24/7, it really wouldn't that difficult for them to catch the bots at a hour where they're truly AFK and unable to respond.

The traditional method of checking for bots is for a GM to simply PM the suspect player if it isn't totally obvious that they're botting, then drop the banhammer on if they keep going about their business and ignoring them for a prolonged period of time. Why XIV is relying on some manner of extremely flawed method (Assuming they're even trying at all) instead of that is beyond me.

In other news, after being absent for two days, most of the bots on Cactaur suddenly resurfaced last night. I guess it took them longer to get the memo then the ones on Balmung.

[Lucerna]

I feel like they really ought to just give the GMs power to enforce cheating because they seem a lot more diligent then the STF and with them on the job 24/7, it really wouldn't that difficult for them to catch the bots at a hour where they're truly AFK and unable to respond.

The traditional method of checking for bots is for a GM to simply PM the suspect player if it isn't totally obvious that they're botting, then drop the banhammer on if they keep going about their business and ignoring them for a prolonged period of time. Why XIV is relying on some manner of extremely flawed method (Assuming they're even trying at all) instead of that is beyond me.

In other news, after being absent for two days, most of the bots on Cactaur suddenly resurfaced last night. I guess it took them longer to get the memo then the ones on Balmung.

I completely agree that the GMs should be allowed to enforce consequences for botting based on responses and player activity. Every GM I have recently spoken to on the matter (including a supervisor) has been incredibly courteous and understanding.