Quote Originally Posted by Atlas-04 View Post
No game can solve this, they always find ways to get in and bot, spam ads, or hack. I personally find very few of these on my server and usually just some dude spamming shout chat in limsa with their gold site. I report/block and go about my day.
It's unrealistic to expect a game to have no cheaters at all, but it is realistic to expect its support team to keep them under control to a degree where people actually feel afraid of trying to do it because of the risk of being banned (Which is clearly not the case when the number of "normal" non-RMT bots on Cactaur and elsewhere has only been increasing as time goes on). The player-owned bots who do things like join PvP matches, control the economy with automated undercutting and/or market flooding using gathered/crafted items are legitimately disruptive to other players but realistically controllable by a competent GM team, whereas the only way they can really axe the RMT bots is to patch the hacks they're using.

There's probably a lot more bots around then you think on Adamantoise. Just do a player search for new adventurers/sprouts, look for the ones with gibberish names, then check how many online players are in their FCs (Assuming they have one). You can also observe how many players are regularly overnighting on crafting classes or moving strangely while gathering (Gather bots always jump in place when taking flight and also do not turn if they aren't in motion, save for what happens automatically when clicking a node).