No response on bot reports

[KageTokage]

They openly acknowledged that housing bots were an issue during the Fanfest live letter, but it's anyone's guess as to what they'll do about it if anything.

I do think they should at least remove some of the loopholes that house-flippers regularly abuse to get housing onto low-leveled alts, though. Namely, don't allow a character to own a house at all unless they meet the actual minimum requirements for it, regardless of whether it's a transferred FC house or otherwise.

[Jojoya]

They openly acknowledged that housing bots were an issue during the Fanfest live letter, but it's anyone's guess as to what they'll do about it if anything.

I do think they should at least remove some of the loopholes that house-flippers regularly abuse to get housing onto low-leveled alts, though. Namely, don't allow a character to own a house at all unless they meet the actual minimum requirements for it, regardless of whether it's a transferred FC house or otherwise.

An individual character can't own a house unless they meet the minimum requirements so that part isn't a problem.

It's the FC loopholes that are problem and one that can't be solved unless SE is willing to have GMs start manually reviewing FCs who own a house, which they would probably consider a waste of GM time. Even if they did, it's still only going to open up a few hundred houses per world at most when there are still thousands of players who want a house.

As long as supply is less than demand, players will find ways to exploit the system. Since SE wants to stick with wards instead of fixing supply, the problem will be with us a long time.

[ReynTime]

considering you can report those bot hordes in places like gridania and see them attacking a week later from underground out in the world... its a pretty big "crack"
they really only go after low hanging easily banned bots like the RMT barkers

maybe they are more diligent on Japanese servers... who knows

They're not. Althought there seems to be this myth about the STF focusing on the japanese DC.
But no they don't. There are bots there. The only reason there are fewer is because a lot fewer JP players use them, and even fewer do RMT.