Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[TheLoveJenovan]

I have a hunch that reporting for RMT may have worked because while the STF and GMs suck at identifying bots, they seem much better at tracking suspicious gil transfers; to such an extent that I've heard stories of players who weren't actually involved in RMT being contacted out of the blue because they were transferring several million gil to either an alt or a friend.

I've tried the game's "Report Cheating" with RMT in the subject, and I've used the Special Task Force (STF). The bots I've reported to both are still present after about 6-8 weeks. If anyone would like to try STF, you can submit to the STF at this link:

https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2

This was also the procedure that SE USA recommended to me when I sent them a support email. Who knows, maybe more reports through this mechanism will work. From my understanding, the STF operates out of Japan.

There's some kind of Aether DC-wide shard farming operation going on using a series of FCs named "***HUB" (With the asterisks being shorthand for the server name, so CacHUB in the case of my server) that are populated by a single max level DoL bot that does nothing but aetherial reduction in HW and SB areas so perhaps I'll see if I can get rid of them using the same tactic.

I've noticed this as well, and I've reported our version on Jenova a few times over the last 3 months--including the STF. Nothing has been done with this bot. It's not even a sophisticated bot, as its movements are 100% deterministic. I've even asked the account if it's a bot, without a response.