"Reserving Server" for hours

[KageTokage]

If this problem is affecting all players and not just you, it might be possible to finally get SE off their butts so they'll do something more lasting if several reports are sent in.

It's unacceptable for an entire instance to be getting locked out by bots, much less RMT-related ones.

[Endeleon]

Whenever RMT gets brought up I just can never comprehend that there are actually people who buy it. I haven't even had anything to buy in the first place since early 2018 when I bought my house... for 3million gil. I now have 45 milion and I definitely don't try... like what. What are these people even doing?

[Hasrat]

First of all, damn dude, did you just go and make this thread in every folder?

More importantly, I don't really recall hearing this being a problem in previous years, which makes me suspect something has changed to make this the current botting meta (or maybe it hasn't, and it's just the latest fad, who knows). But, this topic seems to come up with some frequency lately. So, I suspect, or at least want to believe, devs are aware of the situation, but they're too deep into expansion prep to really dedicate much resources to resolving it. Seems like they've done some bandaid fixes lately, probably mostly just involving resetting the instance servers for that dungeon or something. Otherwise, wouldn't be surprised if it'll be a few weeks/months before an actual solution is implemented, if they bother at all.

There's always the option to get it done after maintenance while the servers are still fresh.

[KageTokage]

There's always the option to get it done after maintenance while the servers are still fresh.

Everything about the gil farming bots is fully automated including their log-in process, so I can guarantee you they'll all be online before any legitimate players manage to get in.

What these bots are doing has changed little since the earliest days of ARR, but their numbers definitely have, as I was routinely seeing nearly 200 of them online simultaneously on Cactuar alone before the character creation got locked when previously you'd see less then half of that. Their increase seems to have coincided with the patch that introduced World Travel.

[HyoMinPark]

They could resolve this issue with minimal impact to normal players by removing the gil drops from ARR dungeons, since they're just farming the trash mobs before the first boss.

Gil drops are already absent from HW/SB dungeons, so they're really just an archaic holdover from the game's earlier days.

Do you mean the Gil that drops from mobs, because I'm fairly certain you can still get Gil after killing trash in HW dungeons. Can't remember for SB, but I recall running the Vault not too long ago on an alt to level NIN, and I was receiving Gil after trash died.

[KageTokage]

Do you mean the Gil that drops from mobs, because I'm fairly certain you can still get Gil after killing trash in HW dungeons. Can't remember for SB, but I recall running the Vault not too long ago on an alt to level NIN, and I was receiving Gil after trash died.

I might've forgotten just because there's not that many HW dungeons with enemies that drop gil compared to ARR.

[Floortank]

Huh, weird. I mean I just queued for Amdapor Keep and got in instantly.

Never heard of this before. Disturbing if true.

[KageTokage]

If I had to wager a guess, the bots may have temporarily overloaded the instance servers by spamming it with queues, not unlike the great Raubahn wall of early SB. Even World Travel queues seem to get stuck at times if several people are trying to crowd into a server simultaneously (Generally because of a S rank hunt spawning), forcing you to back out and requeue to get in.

There's several dozen parties of bots per DC entering and exiting the instance at intervals of a few minutes, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't straining the server.

[CptOhare]

Day Three:

Still unable to obtain a server. Stuck at reserving server for hours on end. I have submitted roughly 20 tickets over this 3 day period, have not once been contacted by a GM to address this legitimate "obstruction of my gameplay" (they like that phrase). At a bare minimum, a GM should take the time to recognize this issue and apply any assistance possible, failing that, they should assure me they will contact the department that can resolve this problem.

This is totally unacceptable. THREE days of this. NO response at all from the GMs/SE. I have quested and alt tabbed during this extended period while enduring these infinite queues.

[KageTokage]

I tried solo queuing for the instance yesterday and had no issues getting in.

However, I was doing it from Cactuar where the bots have been locked out due to character creation being suspended. Could that make a difference?

Not saying that a workaround would be acceptable or anything, though.