Twintania is overrun with bots :(

[KageTokage]

I think they need to just address them going out of bounds to kill enemies without taking damage, because it's the only reason they can clear most instances/MSQ duties.

Making the enemy AI able to recognize when something can't be reached and reset or become invincible if their target is in a place they cannot path to seems like it would be doable.

[kidalutz]

There's so many bots in Twintania gridania alone that I cant go form one point to another without running into at least three groups. and thats just in central shroud. Theres players that cant even get quests completed because the bots are killing everything in sight I mean seriously I feel bad for the new server.

[Rakshazi]

I don't understand... Are we playing the same game??? I play it since Realm Reborn and the only bots I can see is OCASIONAL trade spam. Like 1-2 mesages in the all chat per MONTH. Am I blind? Or the situation is THIS BAD on other servers?

[kidalutz]

Yeah it really is you can see these cats popping up form under the ground on my Brynhildr quite often and its even worse on Twintania. they dont even try to hide what they are anymore they just run along in huge groups with wwhjwhegwwjdwsj jwehwkd type vomit names.

[KageTokage]

I don't understand... Are we playing the same game??? I play it since Realm Reborn and the only bots I can see is OCASIONAL trade spam. Like 1-2 mesages in the all chat per MONTH. Am I blind? Or the situation is THIS BAD on other servers?

Do a player search and filter by level 1-50 THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM. Count how many players there are who have unpronounceable names. Those are the bots, and if you're on an average server that doesn't have locked character creation you're bound to see well over a hundred of them.

They only make brief appearances by quest NPCs and aetherytes as they use hacks to teleport through zones and are usually out of bounds.

[Dustytome]

I don't understand... Are we playing the same game??? I play it since Realm Reborn and the only bots I can see is OCASIONAL trade spam. Like 1-2 mesages in the all chat per MONTH. Am I blind? Or the situation is THIS BAD on other servers?

Both the new EU servers appear to be absolutely flooded. If you go on twitter and do a search for "Welcome to Spriggan", someone posted up a video of what appears to be a bustling Ul'dah, except they're all gibberish named drones.

[Makeda]

Hahaha! Me too... I thought "Dang, those are some advanced bots!"

Yeah that got me too.

If a bot actually made it to the Titania trial I would want to cheer them on then I’d ask SE to hire the bot-coder so we could get the trusts working all the way down to level 1...

[Makeda]

I don't understand... Are we playing the same game??? I play it since Realm Reborn and the only bots I can see is OCASIONAL trade spam. Like 1-2 mesages in the all chat per MONTH. Am I blind? Or the situation is THIS BAD on other servers?

Make a new character as a marauder and when you finish the tutorial and spawn in where other players are on most severs you will be in a crowd of male Hyurs with names like “tjrjdne fejwjfi”. As in, random characters guy...

[Sub-Xero]

As much as I've crapped on SE for how they handled RMT in FFXI, at least they did something about bots. GM's would/could investigate by /telling them or showing up and trying to talk to them and if inadequate or no response was given they would/could gaol them and/or ban them. The Special Task Force (STF) has always been a joke (it's four people and only in Japan), but it amazes me how SE has regressed when it comes to handling these kinds of player concerns.

[KageTokage]

24/7 GM support seems wasted if it only works for harassment and not cheaters.

I'm not sure why they feel like you need fancy things like packet readers to tell if someone is botting when the simple "Attempt to communicate" method would axe them assuming the GMs are timely enough in the report response to catch them while they're still AFK.

They clearly do care about the bots to a degree because they've going at the Mogboard data collection bots extremely hard and banning them constantly even though what they're doing could scarcely be considered harmful.