Is wanderers palace broken?

[Nomuno]

Ive tried to get into this instance for the last 2 days and it just sits at "reserving instance" I've tried unsync, join in progress, regular duty.

It just sits at "reserving instance"

This is the ONLY duty I've had problems with

[Aylis]

Some time ago other players said the same thing regarding Amdapor Keep and something to do with RMT bot parties filling up the instances. This might be the same.

[Moonfish]

That would be the bots hogging the instances.

[KageTokage]

Wanderer's Palace normal is also being targeted by RMT bots, albeit a different type from usual.

They're an unusual bunch who are:

1. All Lalafells with normal names from the character creator.
2. Play a variety of different classes instead of just BLM/WHM, but never actually unlock jobs.
3. Reside in FCs that also have normal-sounding names.
4. Most unusually, they do not use hacks, which drastically lowers the odds of them ever being banned. They progress the MSQ in a "legit" manner by farming FATEs to pass the EXP walls instead of doing sidequests and will queue up with random players in duty finder to get past MSQ-required trials/dungeons (And they're extremely terrible at "playing", judging from a time where I deliberately got into an instance with one and convinced the other players to kick it from the group almost immediately).

From observing them in player search and in overworld, they repeatedly solo queue for and exit Wanderer's Palace at intervals even shorter then those of the usual Amdapor gil farm bots, which leads me to believe they're likely just grabbing the potions in the chest at the start of the instance then leaving as this can easily be done before you get killed by the enemies near said chest even if you're in extremely poor gear.

They also have a singular crafter in each of their FCs who's usually parked by the Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks FC chest but will occasionally warp to Western Thanalan then run off to the Waking Sands for reasons I'm not certain of.

It's unlikely they're anywhere near as efficient as the hacking gil farmers, but when they can swell their numbers with little fear of ever getting banned due to abusing the fact that the STF is extremely poor at banning bots that are not using easily detectable hacks it mitigates that problem. However, just like with the Amdapor gil farmers they could easily be hindered or stopped by simply addressing the target of their farming and moving the chest deeper into the instance where they can't reach it without dying.