Firmament Botting Out Of Control

[Lecru]

It is a valid concern. I saw in chat where someone admitted to account sharing for this and didn't think there was a problem with it.

Guarantee if it was reported, nothing will be done. And that's my entire issue with them right now. Things against the ToS are NOT being enforced even with proof

[Ashiee]

I'm sure people are botting, but the botting accusations are also totally out of control as well.

I know last I went totally ham with gathering last season and doing about 8-16 hours a day (varied), at about a rate of 7500 points an hour, and I was absolutely livid when a person started talking about me purely based on the amount of points I had gained in shout chat. I was super sleep deprived, super agitated because it was not fun for me to be doing, ended up confronting them in game (we are cool now)... but yeah at the time it was super annoying.

Look, if a crafter was gaining 400k - 500k of points consistently a day, that might be suspect (only based on my current crafting rate of about 21k an hour... and there is probably some better rotation I am not doing, someone said they were getting 25-30k an hour) but otherwise, if you are purely accusing people for botting off of points gained, id say like 300k a day, it's kind of not reasonable because you don't know that persons RL playtimes. Some people torture themselves IRL to get that high score. Gathering is the same. Just take whatever a person's rate per hour is times like 24 hours and then just cut off 8 hours for being a human being.

Point being, just don't flat out accuse people purely based on points unless the point gain is just impossible to do at any human pace. If people are openly talking bragging about botting, then yeah report. If their bot breaks and you see them jumping up and down onto a chocobo in the same spot for 10+minutes, then yeah that person is botting, but yeah please bring some actual evidence into it if you are doing so. I see far too many people cry bot when there is no evidence of it.

[Liam_Harper]

Point being, just don't flat out accuse people purely based on points unless the point gain is just impossible to do at any human pace.

Agree on that. Not all bots are going to rack up ridiculously unrealistic scores anyway, that just highlights them as a potential bot. A lot of them are just going to sit around midway between 1st-12th place.

What we need to be looking at more is simply the fact bots do exist. We know botting programs are real and in use, there are discords, forums and websites for them that are public and easy to find with plenty of players admitting to having used one.

What surprises me most is the fact that Enix went ahead with the firmament in its current form anyway. They can't be blind to the fact bots exist, they know their team doesn't have the tools to handle individual player botting, yet they released what amounts to a bot heaven. Crafting and Gathering is in a similar spot ever since the changes, it couldn't be a better set up for bots with easy to level DoL/H, easy to obtain mats and gear and easy to macro recipes all from the safety of your private house where you're undetectable. Sometimes I wonder if they've just given up and are trying to accommodate bots as customers, providing they keep it quiet.

[Eriane_Elis]

I'll say this, it's not botting. There are two paths you can take. Either you macro your firament crafts and hope it succeeds or spend your whole time manually crafting it. I became a saint last time and it was a lot of work. Getting 500k in a few days isn't impossible, it just takes a lot of patience and tenacity. Fishing and gathering are also similar, there are tricks to make the process a bit faster but overall, it's just people who spend all day crafting / gathering. I said to myself last time that I would never again participate. lol

However, I won't say botting doesn't happen, I just think that OP isn't realizing how possible it is to craft 100k+ per day. You can easily do 150k / day, easily if you can tolerate the boredom.

[MPK]

I don't think anyone is surprised.

Crafting/Gathering bots have been out for years.

[hqdm]

I'm curious, what's the absolute highest points per hour someone has claimed to be getting legitimately?

Because I'm averaging around maybe 20Kish hourly with optimal gear/melds/food, which means it would take around 15 hours of crafting daily to hit the 300Kish points some of the top ranks on my server are pushing.

I'm probably doing something wrong, though.

in my xp, on current rotation/system, pushing more than 30k/hr untenable over long period. mostly when breach 30k, due to good rng, so more like temporary buff, rather than as result of better gameplay, but also requires a lot of focus and im unable to sustain like that over long period. but, i think it plausible to see rate increase 35-40k/hr if sm1 has better system, better priority, better reactions, higher rate of throughput etc. If the rotation can be shortened (eg. reflect if they are able to deal with additional inconsistency) then the result will be faster craft, more craft/hr etc. world's top alc (on ifrit) currently pushing 2.2m, which indicate a rate approx 30k/15h. if slide playtime up/down can see rate adjust, eg. 27.5k/16h, 31.4k/14h etc, if he is not stashing any further points.

Am *I* high? Are YOU?? Experience LEGIT does not hav ea single thing to do with RNG of the craft. Period. Not the condition you're given nor the success rate of a skill used that's 50-60% chance.

xp change how crafter react to poor situation, raising the overall rate of success when viewed as a whole, even if individual craft reach point of failure, will create better probability in big picture.
skill priority + cp efficiency dictate best skill to use in a given situation, or even thing like, which pattern when fishing proc with delineation.

eg 1. you're at 81cp 20/50d, 3 tick of inno remaining. what do u do? spend 3 tick on obs to fish? obs > gs > inno > obs > del x3? prudent > gs > del x3?
answer depends on current quality moreso than any.
eg 2. you've zoned out n overshot min cp req'd, now 72 cp, cannot buff both inno + gs, what do?
if me, i would gs to 40, then fish with del, bc 0 cp, and maybe u get a pliant = 9cp inno, then can obs rather than obs 1st and burn any chance of using a pliant if del after. what if you get a good? do u think it better to take proc with unbuffed gs? or tot it and cast inno?

the time u take to make those decisions influence by xp.
at what point do u sac the craft? what cp/dura threshold considered untenable?
at what point would u consider it not worthwhile to sac a craft that could possibly end in t2? if t3 means double point.

thing like that what xp can answer.

[tymora]

200k/day, even 300k/day is doable...just that it is no longer fun at this point. My rates is around 20k/hour on average so that is 10-12 hours of crafting.
Also note that you can store items for submission the following day. So possible to hit inhuman levels if there is enough storage space.

If someone can sustain say..400k a day for many days, I would suspect a bot. Otherwise...its just that you can't beat the dedicated NEETS.

[ForteNightshade]

For anyone denying botting is a serious problem. Two players on Lamia were caught outright admitting to it on discord. In fact, said discord is entirely dedicated to a plugin through ACT that automates nearly everything. Sadly, actually posting the twitter post itself would be counted as name-shaming. Botting like this has become increasingly rampant because everyone knows at this point SE doesn't do a thing about it.

[Lecru]

For anyone denying botting is a serious problem. Two players on Lamia were caught outright admitting to it on discord. In fact, said discord is entirely dedicated to a plugin through ACT that automates nearly everything. Sadly, actually putting the twitter post itself would be counted as name-shaming. Botting like this has become increasingly rampant because everyone knows at this point SE doesn't do a thing about it.

Posting an outside link, instead of name dropping a player IN GAME, would not qualify. So you'd be fine to post it. I've done this in the past to prove points and been perfectly fine.