Quote Originally Posted by tierney12 View Post
Anyway I was told to mention this on the official forums here rather than reddit to hopefully get in contact with a GM that can corroborate our evidence.
Game Masters don't come to the forums. The forums are monitored by the Community teams to gather general feedback.

What you need to do is open a ticket through the ingame Support Desk under Contact Us - Report Cheating. The GMs can contact you and give you information on how to submit your evidence if it's not something that can be done through the ingame ticket system. They will never share the results of any investigation of another player with you.

Keep in mind with Support Desk services being limited right now due to COVID shutdowns, it may be quite a well before you get any sort of response to your ticket.

By the way, that reddit thread has already bounced around here in the forums a few times. While very suspicious, there's nothing in it that constitutes actual evidence of botting. People do dumb things of their own free will all too frequently. Actual evidence would mean having a record of a program running on the player's computer that automates game play in some fashion. SE can't get that information, and certainly you can't as another player unless you had access to their computer.

If you think you're dealing with a MB bot, your best defense is to price match instead of trying to engage in an undercut war. When you do that, you end up looking like you're also a bot to the buyers who aren't part of your crafting inner circle.

Better yet, know the market and stick to your preferred price. If the item is actually selling and you've set a reasonable price, your item will still end up selling and you'll make that little bit of extra gil. While some players go for the absolute lowest price, other players actively avoid buying from the 0.1% undercutters. I've taken advantage on many occasions by setting my price slightly above the lowest one listed and had my items sell the same day.