Request: Anti-cheat system for rampant botting.

[Jijifli]

How many people do you need to dedicate to policing every Data Center/Realm/World/Zone/Instance in the game, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year?

3 per data center seems plenty enough, each on an 8 hours shift. So in total that would be... 24 people?

How much extra are you willing to pay in order to provide each and every one of those people with a salary commensurate with the responsibility, given the fact that American minimum wage is not an option?

I didn't know Square Enix was suffering in the department of income. Show me that they can't afford to make a choice such as that, and that'll be an argument, otherwise they're literally sitting on the money.

How willing are you to be accused and/or stricken from the game because some automated system decided that the 14 hours you just spent working toward a higher rating in the Ishgard restoration project seemed out-of-line with 'normal people' in game?

Hold on now, both we and you said this would involve hiring people, no? Not automated systems?

But as someone who has played those levels of times before, let's play pretend. Yes, because I actually don't have a risk, because I don't bot. Weird.

Would you be willing for SE to monitor all of the processes running on your computer while playing FFXIV if that was guaranteed to eliminate bots?

Sure. Some of their games on platforms like steam already do this anyways, proudly written for us to read should we wanna go through 400 pages of garbage. You'd actually be shocked how much of your computer is scanned by your daily programs.

Complain and report. Realize that what you might consider 'bots' may actually be people with behaviours you consider bot-like, and the reason you still see the exact same user (really?) after 3 years may be that they are not, in fact, a bot?

One of said players actually straight admitted in my FC's chat they bot. They used it in an effort to leverage himself up on the pillar, and basically act like our only omni crafter at that time (our leader) was required to make him stuff as he could always supply anything at any time.

One of the reasons he isn't in the fc anymore was that I broke his bot cuz he was dumb enough to say messaging it enough turns it off out of safety of gm whispers, so it could pretend to be afk to gm's. This was in SB, this was a coil ultimate raider, and I can promise you 100% he is not banned.

So if we got someone who actively admits it in game not being punished, isn't that just a wee bit strange? Specially when he's been angry at me for breaking it, meaning that's more proof, is it not?