Twintania is overrun with bots :(

[Liam_Harper]

They've invading other realms too, I've started seeing Twintania RMT bots spamming on Zodiark.

[Theodric]

There's a lot on Balmung lately as well. Many of them are currently running around Limsa.

[LegendaryKing]

I find it strange that on Twintania for example, the same Bot has been /shout advertising for days, they must require a huge amount of <right click reports> or it does not work at all.

I find that weird also, cuz i report every single one i see instantly

[Temjiu]

I remember back in Vanilla/HW days I'd see a group of BLM standing at the Steps of Nald Aetherite regularly in full lvl 50 BLM gear (pretty obvious with that stuff). They had names like gary, spary. lary, etc. Can't remember the server that was on. I'm on Ultuos now, and Don't see many if at all. Guess that's the benefit of a congested server with no new character creation. Sucks when you want to make a new toon tho...

[Valenth]

You know what I just wish? That if I use the report feature on a RMT spam shout in chat, the RMT gets on a client session temporary blocklist or something. Anything really to prevent further seeing of the same spam that DOESN'T require me to add several more click and to my blocklist, which gets full eventually and I have to clear it out one... by.... one.... THAT IS TEDIOUS BEYOND WORDS! Please Yoshi... just a current session blacklist of RMT reported characters on my end... that's all I ask...

[KageTokage]

You'd honestly need just a competent GM or two actively enforcing each data center to keep the less prominent types of bots like DoH/L ones under control.

The RMT bots can't realistically be stopped without more drastic measures because they're a fully automated process.

[Gwenorai]

Yeah, I see so many bots on twintania - it's insane on how many there is. More bots than actual players - a bit of an exaggeration but doesn't seem like a stretch sometimes.

[EriShvakh]

Yes, bot menace has been out of control ever since ShB. I've been playing for a couple years now and I've never seen SO MANY bots. Just now I saw archer with gibberish name literally run through the air in limsa. That's something I've never seen before. I hope SE finds a way to cull their numbers somewhat, because at this point this is getting embarrassing.

[KageTokage]

Yes, bot menace has been out of control ever since ShB. I've been playing for a couple years now and I've never seen SO MANY bots. Just now I saw archer with gibberish name literally run through the air in limsa. That's something I've never seen before. I hope SE finds a way to cull their numbers somewhat, because at this point this is getting embarrassing.

They actually tried by nerfing the gil drops in ARR dungeons a long while back, but the farmers just compensated by making even more bots, afterwhich they seem to have just thrown their hands in the air and given up on trying to find a more lasting solution.

Honestly, they need to just keep taking baby steps and patching up whatever the bots decide to exploit until they get cornered into a situation where they can scarcely make any gil at all. To start, removing the gil drops from ARR dungeons entirely would impede them greatly and stop them from clogging up the instance servers.