A couple of days ago marked my first month playing this game after having a friend harp on at me for the past 6 years to buy it However, one thing I'm frequently seeing which is disheartening, are the hacking botters who teleport from place to place usually male hyurs with names like Jhdghfhgf Hjfjffhg and players using bots to level jobs.

I came from WoW, althought I hadn't played that game actively for about 4 months. Blizzard Entertainment were very aggressive towards bots, banning them often permanently and targeting the bot creators themselves in high profile lawsuits effectively to the point they've wiped botters out in their games.

I've reported the players I see using bots to level professions, I saw 7 of them last night in the same location on Odin, I'm sure there's a naming and shaming policy here so I won't list names, however when I mentioned it to a fellow FC member, he told me he was aware of the FC tag and had said they've been botting for awhile, to my knowledge it's a clan of mining/botany bots.

He also told me not to get my hopes up because apparently SQ aren't aggressive when it comes towards dealing with bots, he also told me that when Shadowbringers comes out, it's going to get worse as people will use bots for FATES, levelling and jobs.

My question for anyone who's had the patience to read this far (thanks <3) - How often do SQ ban players using bots? I've had mixed reports ranging from they don't to they just give them a slap on the hand.