Discussion: How Can We Handle Botting Better?

[KageTokage]

The GMs are active enough in taking action for non-cheating offenses such that they could easily keep the non-RMT bots under control if they were given the authority to enforce them (They apparently can only forward claims to the STF, judging from the past several times I've gotten in touch with them).

As for the RMT bots, they could probably nip them in the bud by simply removing gil drops from ARR dungeons (Like they've already done for every HW/SB dungeon to my knowledge), because they get the vast majority of it by farming the NPCs/chests in Amdapor Keep. No instanced methods of farming would heavily limit how much gil they're capable of generating in a given amount of time, though there is a risk that it could push them to resort to methods that are more intrusive to other players...

[Tiraelina]

The GMs are active enough in taking action for non-cheating offenses such that they could easily keep the non-RMT bots under control if they were given the authority to enforce them (They apparently can only forward claims to the STF, judging from the past several times I've gotten in touch with them).

As for the RMT bots, they could probably nip them in the bud by simply removing gil drops from ARR dungeons (Like they've already done for every HW/SB dungeon to my knowledge), because they get the vast majority of it by farming the NPCs/chests in Amdapor Keep. No instanced methods of farming would heavily limit how much gil they're capable of generating in a given amount of time, though there is a risk that it could push them to resort to methods that are more intrusive to other players...

Bending the game around bot behaviour doesn't work. It never has in any game. They just find another way until your players are left with nothing. Bots don't fatigue or care about what they are doing unlike players.