Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Jojoya]

Totally offtopic here but does anyone have a clue if it's possible to forge a signature on a crafted item somehow? Some guy is selling 4 crafter tools with my signature on it. I am 100% sure he is not reselling my tools because I have not sold any (I sell with specific prices and there are no such sales in the history). Sale history goes back like 6 months for these lvl 70 tools. ???

As far as I know, there's no way to forge a Maker's Signature nor is there really any reason to do so.

If it's just the 4 items (I'm assuming they're 4 different tools) could be someone who bought them months ago, never used them and is now trying to make some gil back. I've done that a few times while leveling a new alt. I'll buy an item but don't end up using it for whatever reason then find it sitting in my armory chest months later so I sell it. I've also seen it occasionally with my own items, especially Orchestrion rolls.

I wouldn't worry unless it becomes a recurring problem.

[Prrringles]

As far as I know, there's no way to forge a Maker's Signature nor is there really any reason to do so.

If it's just the 4 items (I'm assuming they're 4 different tools) could be someone who bought them months ago, never used them and is now trying to make some gil back. I've done that a few times while leveling a new alt. I'll buy an item but don't end up using it for whatever reason then find it sitting in my armory chest months later so I sell it. I've also seen it occasionally with my own items, especially Orchestrion rolls.

I wouldn't worry unless it becomes a recurring problem.

The thing is, I have never crafted/sold 2 of those 4 tools before. I am 100% sure of it. It just weirds me out.

[Commander_Justitia]

The thing is, I have never crafted/sold 2 of those 4 tools before. I am 100% sure of it. It just weirds me out.

How can you be sure? You look like a crafter main, you remember what you crafted 3 years ago?
You are sure you didn't give tools away once or put them in guild treasure chest etc.

While I strongly think it is one of those things, it could be possible I guess, your name is only restricted to your server, but with worldserver being a thing now, a player with the same weird name as yours could have been crafting those items and sold them on his server and they made it to your server, or, that person transfered server to yours and namechanged because you already had that name, but the items still have his old name on them. So it is not impossible, just very unlikely.
Could also be that someone hacked into your account, crafted those items and gave it to someone else before you noticed, then put them up on the marketboard just to confuse you. Who knows I guess

You will never know, but it doesn't have to be a hack necessarily

[Prrringles]

How can you be sure? ...

No on everything, pretty sure but nvm. I'm upsetting people here.

not trying to be rude but, can you not derail the thread?

thanks bunches.

Yes sorry, back to business with this fruitfull thread. Bots are bad.

[Kes13a]

not trying to be rude but, can you not derail the thread?

thanks bunches.

[ItMe]

If we wanna move back to the previous discussion then let's do it instead of continuing to rag on Prrringles.
They asked a (valid) question and it's not like we were talking about much before it... or in the almost 4 days since.

[Kes13a]

I wasnt ragging on Prrringles or upset. originally I had thought it was related to some new thing bots were doing. when it turned it wasnt, was just asking it not to be derailed which would lead to it being closed and subsequently deleted.

for some, 55 pages may not seem important, but for any other issue, usually that would indicate some level of issue with how something is being seen or handled by SE (unless its a "show me your X" thread in which case thats understandable)

[Prrringles]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

[Jojoya]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

[Prrringles]

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

Can you DM me the name so I can check it out?