Thanks Eloc, Jojoya and Kes13a for your posts. I always enjoy reading new comments on this problem.

Quote Originally Posted by Eloc View Post
Crafting is actually one of my favorite things to do in this game but the botting has gotten so bad i now sell about 2 items a day.
I think we all feel the same way. Some people enjoy playing The Epic Alexander, and some like crafting and playing the market. I’ve always wondered how SE would address the issue if it impacted other content more extensively. I’d argue that market bots are more detrimental to a larger player base than other bots because crafters give up and don’t sell on the market, leaving bots to sell at very high prices.

Quote Originally Posted by Eloc View Post
1) Is there actual steps to take that gets results?
2) I report them 2-3 times a week but what if we all did it daily and spread the word?
3) Can we spread the word to the server populace without getting banned? It seems ludicrous that we cant even point out the problem.
I have never seen a bot get banned after multiple reports in-game and the Special Task Force (https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2) That said, I still think it’s worth reporting them. At the very least, SE must keep statistics on how many reports they get on each player and how many are ignored, when they do a post-mortem on the problem.

I think that continuing to discuss this issue through this thread could lead to a response. My hope is that this thread will receive enough visibility (views) to warrant a response from Yoshi-P.

We can’t name or shame individual accounts, even though it’s not really debatable whether you can ‘harass’ a computer script. However, we’ve been able to identify one type of bot (the FC bot) and list the FCs of those bots. These are crafting bots that sell almost every kind of item on a server and are part of an FC with one high-level crafter (FC owner) and 8-9 dummy accounts. If you could find those for your datacenter (Primal) to add to the list, that would be helpful.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5434835
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5433979