SE we have bots problems

[Curisu]

There are also a ton of bot FCs with a few of them active for a long time.
You can easily check them on the loadstone.

Let's place the tinfoil on my head and let me tell you my guess. They don't do to much against the bots because when they do the daily DDOS starts to become a problem again.
So they decide for the smaller evil.

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ffxiv is the most RMT bot friendly game i'v ever played

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the special task force is so useless market board bots gather bots teleporting everywhere jesus why square enix even have them in the first place

[Ranaku]

Cause a taskforce can't deal with dozens of servers with thousands of bots? It's not thaaaaat hard to understand. Just ask yourself why you can't do double of the work you do atm in your actual job, if you have one. The solution isn't upgrading cause fighting bots and gilsellers with just manpower takes so much more ressources than what they actually do, they get after the big fishes. Not the bots but mostly the people who sell gil and have big amounts. Ofc it's shitty for all people that sell stuff on the marketboard. But i think you would also have a problem if we double the cost of our subs so they can fight bots with manpower and not tactics.

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Cause a taskforce can't deal with dozens of servers with thousands of bots? It's not thaaaaat hard to understand. Just ask yourself why you can't do double of the work you do atm in your actual job, if you have one. The solution isn't upgrading cause fighting bots and gilsellers with just manpower takes so much more ressources than what they actually do, they get after the big fishes. Not the bots but mostly the people who sell gil and have big amounts. Ofc it's shitty for all people that sell stuff on the marketboard. But i think you would also have a problem if we double the cost of our subs so they can fight bots with manpower and not tactics.

SUre they can listen to reports and see if the bots respond, if they continue to craft and gather but won't respond then BOOT it really is that simple whats so hard about that?

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Cause a taskforce can't deal with dozens of servers with thousands of bots? It's not thaaaaat hard to understand. Just ask yourself why you can't do double of the work you do atm in your actual job, if you have one. The solution isn't upgrading cause fighting bots and gilsellers with just manpower takes so much more ressources than what they actually do, they get after the big fishes. Not the bots but mostly the people who sell gil and have big amounts. Ofc it's shitty for all people that sell stuff on the marketboard. But i think you would also have a problem if we double the cost of our subs so they can fight bots with manpower and not tactics.

The special task force is useless and a waste of SE money, if SE allows GM to ban them you will see massive drops.

[Ranaku]

You actually see on the reports how many people they take out and they are many, for such a little team taking out so many bots etc. if that wouldn't be the case we would get overrun by gilsellers and bots. But whatever, people will always complain about stuff they don't understand at all. Math hard, flaming SE easy, i get it.

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Cause a taskforce can't deal with dozens of servers with thousands of bots? It's not thaaaaat hard to understand. Just ask yourself why you can't do double of the work you do atm in your actual job, if you have one. The solution isn't upgrading cause fighting bots and gilsellers with just manpower takes so much more ressources than what they actually do, they get after the big fishes. Not the bots but mostly the people who sell gil and have big amounts. Ofc it's shitty for all people that sell stuff on the marketboard. But i think you would also have a problem if we double the cost of our subs so they can fight bots with manpower and not tactics.

Go to ephemeral node how many of those bots u see have those busy status on and plays 24/7

[Ranaku]

And every GM has to review first if it's really a bot...who the heck should pay for that? xD You know how much time that takes with all the bots? You know what the sole reason behind bots is? They are replaced in hours.

[KageTokage]

The problem is the vast majority of the bots they're getting rid of are not made to last and are immediately replaced the instant they get banned.

The ones they should be placing higher priority on removing are the DoL/H bots that won't come back instantly due to needing to re-level their jobs before they can start abusing the marketboard again.

There's been multiple weeks where there were zero bans of the "normal" bots that aren't using hacks to teleport around the place...which is kind of unacceptable when there's well over a dozen I run into on a daily basis on my server alone and many have been around since as far back as HW.