QoL changes to Bot reporting

[KageTokage]

They really should hire more people to the STF if that is true. I'd personally like to see 1 or 2 people on each server spot banning bots as they appear. Like make that their sole responsibility.

Or they can just outsource bot enforcement to the GMs, who are a much larger team.

Their problem is that they think you need specialized "tools" to detect bots when a lot of them don't exhibit any abnormalities that can be detected from scanning the data a client is sending and such. Simply observing them is enough to deduce whether a real player is in control or not.

Also, they should have automated server-side auditing of character movement and detection of teleport hacking and speed hacking. That kind of thing should be considered a bare essential for any online game. WoW has had that for years, and don't recall ever seeing a teleport or speed hack in WoW, and I've played that since Cataclysm.

I was seeing tons of teleporting gather bots in early Cataclysm personally. I'd go to a seemingly unoccupied node to try to hit it, only get an "already in use" message due a bot underneath the ground using it.

It was scarcely an issue because reporting said bot after checking the combat log to get their name reliably got them purged by the GMs within the day, if not a few hours.

Meanwhile on the XIV side of things even the most obvious of gather bots are still around despite me reporting them since back in the HW days.