A Warning to my Fellow Players

[TheVedis]

Yeah, Me and my LS are compiling lists of botters and hackers, sort of a black book, we report them and use their name for future reference on recruitment issues, for not only our shell, but many others. This way we can help make the community as clean as possible for a better game experience.

I wish i had friends who cared as much to help me do this. I am running into so many now its not funny on beseid. And some of them are harder to spot cuz they are not always "afk" while using said bots. But when they tend to not notice little things that a normal person would for 5+ minutes, then you just know something is wrong(like getting kicked from behest yet trying to fight until the end like you werent...and dying over and over again and fighting regardless of weakness during such a time, then only asking why you didnt get any SP after behest ended)

[Gath]

I wish i had friends who cared as much to help me do this. I am running into so many now its not funny on beseid. And some of them are harder to spot cuz they are not always "afk" while using said bots. But when they tend to not notice little things that a normal person would for 5+ minutes, then you just know something is wrong(like getting kicked from behest yet trying to fight until the end like you werent...and dying over and over again and fighting regardless of weakness during such a time, then only asking why you didnt get any SP after behest ended)

This is the exact reason why I am trying to raise awareness, because the cleaner we make this game of bots, the more fun we will have due to the fact that we wont need to frustrate ourselves over bots in our camps and in our game ^^v

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I too have a list of botters and people crafting with auto clickers.

[TheVedis]

If some of us do take this to the level of publicly posting who is doing this, which btw i think is a bad idea. I do have a concern.

Please do not post anything without PROOF.

Several people use medians such as posts with lists of known botters and such in order to exact "revenge" on people they dont like with false accusations.

So if you have these lists forming, just please report them to the task force and leave it at that.

[Gath]

If some of us do take this to the level of publicly posting who is doing this, which btw i think is a bad idea. I do have a concern.

Please do not post anything without PROOF.

Several people use medians such as posts with lists of known botters and such in order to exact "revenge" on people they dont like with false accusations.

So if you have these lists forming, just please report them to the task force and leave it at that.

That is why we use FRAPS and pictures to show their behavior. When they are fighting a mob and when they're about to die they put their weapon away and regain HP and the mobs attacks don't hit them. Stuff like that, we record it all for reference.

[Antipika]

If some of us do take this to the level of publicly posting who is doing this, which btw i think is a bad idea. I do have a concern.

Please do not post anything without PROOF.

Do not post anything, period. Forums ain't a courthouse. You aren't here to publicly give names. There is the Special Task Force for that. Giving names publicly will only get you one thing : an edit/deletion and maybe a suspension. Proof or not. A screenshot isn't a proof and is void to SE eyes.

However reporting possible bugs/exploits to the dev team is always welcomed, yet I would suggest you to call a GM for that, in order to avoid making the exploit public, especially if it a major one.

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As for botters, what people do not realize, once again, is that RMT will always be there as long as there will be customers to purchase their gils. As for "normal" players using exploit, just report them.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Doesn't this apply to how people are exploiting Necrologos leves? I remember posting about this elsewhere, hope people take this advice until SE gives the official word.

I had 2 GMs tell me so far that not reporting a glitch and continuing to use the glitch to your advantage is illegal and against the TOS.

[TheVedis]

Doesn't this apply to how people are exploiting Necrologos leves? I remember posting about this elsewhere, hope people take this advice until SE gives the official word.

I had 2 GMs tell me so far that not reporting a glitch and continuing to use the glitch to your advantage is illegal and against the TOS.

It applies to that glitch yes, especialy to those who have figured out how to trigger it every time they do it.
I can not blame the people who dont know better and just get extra mobs all of a sudden and dont know why. Its not like they tried to make it happen, but there are quite a few people who have started to outright abuse it, and those are the people who are going to get hit the hardtest if and when something is done about it.

[Gath]

It applies to that glitch yes, especialy to those who have figured out how to trigger it every time they do it.
I can not blame the people who dont know better and just get extra mobs all of a sudden and dont know why. Its not like they tried to make it happen, but there are quite a few people who have started to outright abuse it, and those are the people who are going to get hit the hardtest if and when something is done about it.

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[KingZeus]

the fish botting is BEYOND out of control.
i'm very passionate about fishing, just like i was in ffxi, and it's sad to see once again that 98% of the people fishing were bots...
i worked very hard to get my rank and am proud of it. i know everything there is to know about fishing in this game.

i really wish SE would have done something about it seeing how they already have this experience with ffxi. there should have been a team in place dealing with this type of thing from the get go.