Discussion: How Can We Handle Botting Better?

[KageTokage]

I locate the button-mash name gil farmers by just restricting my player search results to sprouts.

I don't even bother reporting them anymore, though, because while they get purged regularly it only takes them about a day to come back afterward. They'd need to purge them literally every day and prevent them from ever reaching the point where they can create a FC if they wanted to make any meaningful headway in preventing RMT without resorting to a more permanent fix, as they store their gil in the FC chest prior to making transactions. They don't care if they get banned since if they manage to go even a day at 50 they'll already have plenty enough gil to make a sizable transaction.

I really doubt they actually care about the RMT and just ban to save face at this point because refusing to pursue a lasting solution despite years of this going on using almost the exact same methods just doesn't make any sense.