Suggestion to avoid botting houses! 3 attempts per day system!

[Themarvin]

Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots

It wont work to well with a caption box, people has suggested a rafle, but but bots then from outside of the playerbase will join that rafle, knowing that, they can get people to pay massive amounts of gil for a house when it become a shortage, limitations to how many times you can click PER plot per day, flushes out people camping, using 3rd party tools and botting tools to keep on clicking the plot, and yes people are definately using them.

This makes it fair for all, time your daily clicks well, if you lose one plot, go to the next one, eventually would be the first one to hit it spot on and be getting a house plot for use, no ones gain any advantages using a system like this, and it puts all in the same box, but in a manner where all interested will be getting a fair chance.

[jakers127]

They really need to make it so their isn't a targeting button for the placard...I can probably make a macro on my mouse to run that 0040 button combo to click a placard for me for hours if I wanted (which i do not!)

I am sure it would be easy though, any one with mouse software could make a combo 0040 on their keypad to auto click the sign....just remove the targeting button from being able to target placards...done. Make it need to be a physical click.

[Frizze]

A physical click doesnt work for people who play on controller. Which is some PC players, and most PS4/5 players.

[ReiganCross]

They really need to make it so their isn't a targeting button for the placard...I can probably make a macro on my mouse to run that 0040 button combo to click a placard for me for hours if I wanted (which i do not!)

I am sure it would be easy though, any one with mouse software could make a combo 0040 on their keypad to auto click the sign....just remove the targeting button from being able to target placards...done. Make it need to be a physical click.

You could just program that click in the same mouse, though, couldn't you?

Unless you're suggesting that the Placard position should be ever changing? Hell, the fact that the standard response to "Do you want to buy plot" is No instead of the obvious Yed is EXACTLY so people couldn't jusy press Num0 over and over to keep clicking such things. It's the reason why that 4 is on that combination. Breaking an essential targeting system that works for everything else in the game just so people have to maybe click a mouse they might not even have, that they can then program to just "Mouse 1" > "Numkey 0" > "Numkey 4" > "Numkey 0" seems... Excessive...

[Vahlnir]

Except that these gil outfits have billions of gil and many disposable characters -- they would overrun such a lottery system almost instantaneously.

That, and the chances of getting a house just went from "probably not, but it's still possible" to "l've got a better chance of being struck by lightning 5 times in a row on a clear, sunny day". I'd argue the system proposed by the OP would achieve the same result though. I've gone through this a lot with them, unfortunately, in regards to multiple housing ideas. What people are asking for lately are NOT real solutions. They are just advocating for shifting the inconveniences from one place to another.