Anti Bot System

[SatoTheLalafel]

I've seen countless times bots teleporting all over the map and attacking from underground. Can't just developers chose an even map as a trap and flag suspects when their altitude gets beneath certain number, I mean, coordinates of your character are tracked after all.

[Jojoya]

I've seen countless times bots teleporting all over the map and attacking from underground. Can't just developers chose an even map as a trap and flag suspects when their altitude gets beneath certain number, I mean, coordinates of your character are tracked after all.

Those types of bots are usually banned weekly. SE does have some traps in place at various locations to catch them (if you're paying attention while doing MSQ on a new character, you can see where at least a couple of the traps are located). SE is banning 4000-7000 accounts each week for RMT related activity and posts a weekly report on Lodestone. Here's a link to the most recent one as an example.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...7162366c584e51

But those bots are also easily replaced with new bots on new accounts. That's why it can feel like nothing is being done even though SE is working on it.

As for the OP, they're referring to suspected crafting bots and that's caused problems because sometimes legitimate players end up accused.