The bot problem is rising and real.

[KageTokage]

This can have other effects as well....

I actually sometimes get nervous when I am out gathering, esp when it comes to fishing ever since HW when I was fishing for icepicks by that little pond and I was standing on a rock. My other half came running up and was like...what are you doing? Apparently while I saw myself standing on the rock, they saw me standing inside the rock on the ground. So now, since everyone's bot detection is on hyperdrive, I never stand on rocks to fish and am very conscious of my screen. This also happens when you are sitting on a chair while fishing. There are some cases, where if you are not flat on the ground surface, you sink into the map a little bit, not on your screen, but on other ppls. We have checked it out between our two PCs.

I was fishing in Il Mheg recently and was sitting on my chair, had someone who was killing things, come up and stand near me for a moment, I could see their head turned so they were looking at me, then after a few minutes run away.

It was too long to be just a casual glance and I had 0 pieces of gear glamoured….I just kept thinking to myself. Do they see me half sunk into the ground or something? Are they just watching my patterns to be sure I'm not botting? I immediately stood up and decided its just not worth using that feature anymore. A dude can't just go gather anymore these days without fearing a wrongful report and its thanks to the multitude of bots. Next time just say hello if you wanna be sure someone isn't a bot. I just wanna fish, man. Come on.

If you're not actually botting, you have basically no reason to worry if someone wrongfully reports you when people who are very obviously botting routinely escape bans for months/years on end.

Also, I wouldn't assume that people are sizing you up because they think you're doing something wrong. Fishers in general are uncommon enough that they tend to draw attention just by existing and I also regularly get people pausing to look at me while I'm casually fishing up the Western Thanalan/North Shroud S ranks.

[Mistyregions]

If you're not actually botting, you have basically no reason to worry if someone wrongfully reports you when people who are very obviously botting routinely escape bans for months/years on end.

Also, I wouldn't assume that people are sizing you up because they think you're doing something wrong. Fishers in general are uncommon enough that they tend to draw attention just by existing and I also regularly get people pausing to look at me while I'm casually fishing up the Western Thanalan/North Shroud S ranks.

Jokes on everyone, everyone who is gathering near me I am on the lookout to report for botting.