Reporting cheaters and the STF: Where's the consistency?

[gtasthehunter]

There needs to be a faster way to report cheaters/bot users like you can report with RMT.

Most cheaters/bot users seem to have really random letters in there names, and move around a zone from mob to mob way to quick or in and out of the ground over and over once I've seen like 5+ Lv50 BLMs same armor with really random letters in there names all doing MSQ and all always standing in the same spots when they appear out of the ground! and going in and out the ground over and over! and turn the same way to take to NPC's

[KageTokage]

There needs to be a faster way to report cheaters/bot users like you can report with RMT.

Most cheaters/bot users seem to have really random letters in there names, and move around a zone from mob to mob way to quick or in and out of the ground over and over once I've seen like 5+ Lv50 BLMs same armor with really random letters in there names all doing MSQ and all always standing in the same spots when they appear out of the ground! and going in and out the ground over and over! and turn the same way to take to NPC's

Those guys (Who are the ones gathering gil for the RMT spammers) are an entirely different problem because the STF already bans them on a weekly basis, but they come back so quickly that it doesn't even matter. They need to combat their methods not the bots themselves if they want to actually make any headway in stopping RMT.

The DoL/H bots tend to just not get banned period and they're actively harmful to the play environment in that they pressure legitimate gatherers/crafters out of the market by tanking prices to the point where it's scarcely worth the effort (It is not worth crafting for gil when activities like treasure maps, Eureka, etc start yielding nearly as much for the amount of time spent). They mostly care about how fast their stuff sells because they're not having to actually invest any time or effort into the process.

A proper economy should not be ruled by a select few individuals, but that's basically what's been going on on my end for the past several months because the bot farmers have a constant stock of crafted gear/consumables they're willing to sell far cheaper then anyone else and not even the most dedicated of the legitimate gatherers/crafters can keep up with them, nor do they feel inclined to bother when they're practically having to sell at a loss. World Travel is likely going to cause a "normalization" of prices to the lows dictated by the bot farmers, which is not going to be fun to deal with at all from the perspective of a producer.

Regardless, there does need to be an easier way to report cheaters if getting them banned is so ridiculously hit or miss.