Why can't we send photo evidence when reporting a player for cheating?

[LianaThorne]

I feel like if their logs were actually that detailed, bots would get banned much more often then they do as they'd be able to see abnormalities like a player following the exact same path/sequence of actions over a prolonged period.

I've also reported multiple bots that were going around doing their business while AFK; which is literally impossible to do without a third party program as any manual input will immediately remove your AFK status. Despite pointing this out in my reports, none of the players in question actually got banned.

As it was said above, banwaves aren't done daily. Also, it's very easy to get past a temp ban/perma ban if you know what you're doing. Keep in mind, the players botting/farming gil are whales and have the funds irl to continuously make new accounts, get new computers, new internet services, VPNs, etc. This is their job in a sense so they will never truly be gone as they can just keep funneling the money they make off selling gil into getting back into the game.

In my opinion, they'd have to put in a legit form of cheat prevention that blocks any sort of plugin/mod/etc. to get some sort of handle on it. (Like to the point you can't even tab out of the game without button mashing your keyboard 20+ times).

[Imora]

I feel like if their logs were actually that detailed, bots would get banned much more often then they do as they'd be able to see abnormalities like a player following the exact same path/sequence of actions over a prolonged period.

I've also reported multiple bots that were going around doing their business while AFK; which is literally impossible to do without a third party program as any manual input will immediately remove your AFK status. Despite pointing this out in my reports, none of the players in question actually got banned.

Even changing camera angle removes afk flag. At least it does when I do it.

[VictorTheed]

I'm a touch curious as to what form of cheating you're trying to report.

If it's those piles of bots flying around the place, they've already committed account suicide because that form of cheating is extremely easy for them to detect and act on without any outside input from players. The actual problem is that they only do weekly banwaves which doesn't really do anything to mitigate it because they can easily farm millions of gil within that timespan.

Photo evidence honestly wouldn't really help ID/prove most forms of cheating. What would help is just having a quick report function for more then RMT because you don't need to type out wordy reports to explain that a player is suspect because of their janky movement patterns and/or prolonged activity periods.

LoL I see those bots flying all the time at the materia goblin in central thanalan, you ever see em go underground to, it's crazy.

When I see those situations or the situation where u got a cluster of bots gathered to together at the fc chest at the immortal flames GC I think to myself, those crazy bastards are at it again lol, I guess at this point I've been so desensitized to the bot situation I look at them or the rmt shouts u see in kinda as normal background stuff in game.

I remember that seasonal event we had years ago were we killed the robots but in the story they just kept coming back, I guess that's the devs way of saying this never ends, it made me laugh, but I understand bots cause problems so I get why people want them gone, I guess I just went em so much there normal parts of the zone to me now.