"Reserving Server" for hours

[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.