Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
From what others have said, the Special Task Force is a very small team. They're not going to be able to respond to all the reports they get because that takes time away from actually checking activity. They aren't small children who need to report to their parents that they've done their chores, nor should we treat them like they are.

I'm sure they've got plenty of reports being generated using tools and data players don't have access to. What we don't know is the standards they've set internally for deciding when action should be taken against an account, and that's information that would never get shared with the player base.

Every MMO has its problem with bots. It's unavoidable. As players, we need to do what we can to report them when noticed but otherwise leave it up to the game developer to handle it. There's no point letting something out of our control upset us.
BS. as PAYING customers we have an expectation to be able to open the game and be able to play it in a reasonable fashion. so as players, you are basically saying we should just accept bots and the fact that harvesting and crafting are pointless currently and smile at the benign gods.

I dont expect that all the bots will go away. I am not a child either. but right now, SE might as well REMOVE harvesting and crafting because on my server at least, there is zero use for it. unless I use a bot.. seriously, things will never sell. unless I act like a bot, and stand on the market all day long, things will never sell. maybe things are different on your server, it sure seems like it. players shop for and buy items a few gil more expensive because you are a real person and not a bot, you have areas of the market where you can make millions of gil by putting up items at a reasonable cost and then go out harvesting and questing or farming.

your server seems to be an exception Jojoya.

none of us have any proof that they do any checking, or that they do not. because all we have is a weekly report of numbers.... strangely enough, even with those weekly reports, long term KNOWN bots still operate. since I am sure they have been investigated, are they real players? hard to imagine real people doing exactly the same thing for weeks on end, but perhaps. Do they have generated reports? who knows, not you and not I.

If you buy a car, and you cant use the a/c. radio, heater, are you thrilled with your purchase? you get letters from the company telling you they have fixed hundreds of people with a/c. radio and heater issues, but you never meet one.

would be better if they just removed the a/c, radio and heater from the car.