botting

[Jentaru]

in just one sitting in faerie i have encountered over 500 bots...... in just this hour alone....not the same bot different ones. i have kept a record of all names...... yet when reporting players... nothing seems to be done.... why....

[Lucerna]

I've been reporting the same characters botting on Balmung for years, and they're still at it. I wish Square would take another look at what's needed to ban for botting.

[Jentaru]

clans "UF""QJWS""NZ""LS""ZHA""YZH""CRHK""ONVD""GTSR""fghgf""aa""X_F""4r3""ghjgj""f3f" all on faerie are botting....

[KageTokage]

They (Usually) ban the gil farming bots you're seeing on a weekly basis, but it doesn't matter when they've been creating replacement bots literally non-stop lately.

They need to take a more permanent measure to deal with them because they're creating a significant amount of server congestion that's causing issues now and is only going to get worse when ShB releases.

I've been reporting the same characters botting on Balmung for years, and they're still at it. I wish Square would take another look at what's needed to ban for botting.

The issue is that they don't actually investigate reports (Because if they did, there's no way anyone in their right mind would think most of these guys aren't botting). They'll just run an automated scan on a suspected bot to attempt to detect any abnormalities with the data their client is sending the server then punish them if something is detected

Problem that's only going to catch bots that are operating outside of the limitations of a normal player, such as those hacking gil farmers who teleport around the place.

[Jentaru]

the obvious ones are the ones with names like adlkfjahdfkjlh kjahdflkjhadsf like what normal player names themselves that and is a white mage or blm.

[Canadane]

in just one sitting in faerie i have encountered over 500 bots...... in just this hour alone....not the same bot different ones. i have kept a record of all names...... yet when reporting players... nothing seems to be done.... why....

Because bots aren't banned within an hour. Their accounts are dealt with in waves.

[Jentaru]

Because bots aren't banned within an hour. Their accounts are dealt with in waves.

unfortunately the " waves" are really slow and low.

[Canadane]

unfortunately the " waves" are really slow and low.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...78d9089cec12ef
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0f708982d3111f
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...f06bb570209efb
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...f06bb570209efb

Weekly basis, the links above are all for April.
They total almost 8000 bans. And I consider that pretty small for their usual amount.

[Jentaru]

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...78d9089cec12ef
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...0f708982d3111f
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...f06bb570209efb
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...f06bb570209efb

Weekly basis, the links above are all for April.
They total almost 8000 bans. And I consider that pretty small for their usual amount.

ya cept it takes longer than a week to get to 50 .... and they have over 200 doing so... so that tells me they are really lax on it...

[Canadane]

ya cept it takes longer than a week to get to 50 .... and they have over 200 doing so... so that tells me they are really lax on it...

It takes a day tops to get to 50.
You have to remember, these aren't humans controlling these characters. They don't watch cutscenes, they poshack to get around and advance quests, avoid taking damage while being able to deal it.
It's a nonstop script that'll do what it needs to do to get to 50+ or whatever they're programmed to do these days.