Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Jojoya]

As far as I can tell, the bots are seemingly bypassing the standard retainer interface as the ones I've observed on my server never actually target the bell and will just run over to it, stand there for 10-20 seconds, then teleport to the next timed node they intend to gather from. During that brief time they're somehow able to adjust the prices on ALL of their retainers, which is blatantly impossible for an actual player as just cycling through that many retainers would normally take close to a minute due to all the loading and menuing.

That would suggest that they are actually hacking to make the retainer/price management faster, but SE doesn't seem to be able to pick it up for whatever reason.



The JP datacenters have less of them simply because the RMT market is not as strong as it is elsewhere.

There is some level of botting activity regardless but it seems to be done more for personal benefit.

Are you certain you're looking at the correct character tied to the retainer with the listing?

I mean I could always be shuffling what I craft to one of my alts and listing on their retainers (have done this a few times when trying to increase how much gil the alt has).

If listings for multiple retainers are getting updated simultaneously, then there's some sort of multiboxing going on. The character you're watching could be getting moved with the characters being used for listing mules while they are doing the actual interaction. It would be so easy to hide mules in "plain sight" in the housing wards where almost no one ever goes.

[Kes13a]

If listings for multiple retainers are getting updated simultaneously, then there's some sort of multiboxing going on. The character you're watching could be getting moved with the characters being used for listing mules while they are doing the actual interaction. It would be so easy to hide mules in "plain sight" in the housing wards where almost no one ever goes.

strangely enough one of the more obvious bots on Zalera just has the mules in the major cities. back when I cared I tracked their login and out, knew who their retainers were etc, the crafter was obviously multiboxing since the main would stay in and only the other "members" of their fc would cycle in and out as they checked/changed prices. I suspect that the replacement gear was transferred via fc chest since the boards they stayed at were as close to the chest as possible.