Okay now the botting is getting a little out of hand...

[Kuroka]

Not seeing anything near that bad on EU servers.
Im not saying its not an issue on EU servers but it seems far more rampant on us servers which would imply to me that there is a much bigger market there.
Much bigger market there meaning there's a lot more us players buying gil.
Sure SE need to take a tougher stance on it but clearly there is a player issue on US servers thats fueling it.

uhm
you see my server?

[ICountFrom0]

I will say that all this botting has done ONE good thing, the price for gold has fallen quite a bit, in the last week it's fallen 25%. There's four new websites that are selling it in steep competition with eachother, they are driving the bottom out of the market. Soon it won't be worth the time or effort even to illegally steal accounts anymore.

[Kuroka]

...and then it goes up again...

[Jennah]

It must be getting pretty bad, since I saw some bots for the first time ever last night.

[Metalwrath]

uhm
you see my server?

Hm ok so its that bad on eu server too.Out of curiosity what time of day is this happening?
In order to create this many bots at same time they must be doing it at offpeak times on eu servers as usually there is a small queue to get on between around 1pm-10pm.
Maybe if they restrict the amount of new characters per day allowed to be created on a server this would help the issue.Although in theory it might block new players from starting.But if the bot accounts are being created late at night creating such a rule might hinder them creating characters at off peak if new accounts are created during the day.

[Metallium]

Hm ok so its that bad on eu server too.Out of curiosity what time of day is this happening?
In order to create this many bots at same time they must be doing it at offpeak times on eu servers as usually there is a small queue to get on between around 1pm-10pm.
Maybe if they restrict the amount of new characters per day allowed to be created on a server this would help the issue.Although in theory it might block new players from starting.But if the bot accounts are being created late at night creating such a rule might hinder them creating characters at off peak if new accounts are created during the day.

It is still happening as of this very moment and as long as I made this thread if not longer today(so a few hours already).

[Metallium]

Not seeing anything near that bad on EU servers.
Im not saying its not an issue on EU servers but it seems far more rampant on us servers which would imply to me that there is a much bigger market there.
Much bigger market there meaning there's a lot more us players buying gil.
Sure SE need to take a tougher stance on it but clearly there is a player issue on US servers thats fueling it.

also, went to Zodiark just now....

[AngeliouxRein]

This is the worst I have ever seen a bot infestation. It's WAY worst than any F2P game at that. Before I would usually see them just appearing in front of npc or dungeon and then disappear into the ground. This is the first time that I would see soo many of them moving like an army through the air, ground, warping, etc. It's like someone found a way to upgrade them or something. The other day I saw a train of them in upper deck of Lominsa just coming from the ocean to an entrance to Bismark. It was freaky.

[Metalwrath]

It is still happening as of this very moment and as long as I made this thread if not longer today(so a few hours already).

Im not sure about Shiva server as it seems to have a very high activity rate but from looking at figures from your server its got a very low active rate which is likely how so many bots can be created even at peak times.Have you any idea if these bots are going to dungeons or just farming trash on maps.What SE need to do is cripple whatever they are able to farm or make the items they farm buyable at low cost on an npc.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The uprising has begun. All hail the machines. Skynet is your god now.