Some bots are farming mobs from underground

[Mitsuka_Souji]

Some bots in at least Mod Dhona, North Shroud and Coerthas are killing respawning mobs on cooldown while being under the ground. World is Garuda. Are they to blame for item devaluation on market board?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5A...ew?usp=sharing

[Kaliesto]

I've seen Bots do that for years, they move underground and then farm on the mobs throughout a lot of ARR areas.

Strangely I never seen them beyond ARR areas for whatever reason.

You can catch them in the act most of the time at Quarrymill too as they're the most commonly seen over there.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I've seen Bots do that for years, they move underground and then farm on the mobs throughout a lot of ARR areas.

Strangely I never seen them beyond ARR areas for whatever reason.

You can catch them in the act most of the time at Quarrymill too as they're the most commonly seen over there.

Free trials only include ARR and HW. with EW coming they might include SB. My guess is it's just free trial accounts so their scope is limited.

[Moonlite]

I've seen Bots do that for years, they move underground and then farm on the mobs throughout a lot of ARR areas.

Strangely I never seen them beyond ARR areas for whatever reason.

You can catch them in the act most of the time at Quarrymill too as they're the most commonly seen over there.

The zones are way bigger. But I have seen them underground in HW's zones. But not passed HW's. But think of it this way. Someone was buying treasure maps less 1 min apart non stop. They had to be teleporting, or had armies of map parties. I stopped counting at roughly a 100 maps bought.

[ICountFrom0]

Better hide that picture, you've got usernames in there, that counts as "name and shame" and is bannable in the forum policy.

The forum folks can't do anything about it. Bot handling is a 3 person team (though I heard a rumor they added a 4th, I've not confirmed that) in Japan, responsible for every bot and removing them. They don't do forums, they only respond to a single form.

https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2

Scroll down, WAY down, bottom option, "Special task force".

[Mitsuka_Souji]

Better hide that picture, you've got usernames in there, that counts as "name and shame" and is bannable in the forum policy.

The forum folks can't do anything about it. Bot handling is a 3 person team (though I heard a rumor they added a 4th, I've not confirmed that) in Japan, responsible for every bot and removing them. They don't do forums, they only respond to a single form.

https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2

Scroll down, WAY down, bottom option, "Special task force".

Yes, i reported it 2 - 3 times to STF already.

And speaking of "name and shame" - those are bots and not actual players, so who do I shame? In fact, I depict breaking of TOS and help devs.

[Bearded]

Yes, i reported it 2 - 3 times to STF already.

And speaking of "name and shame" - those are bots and not actual players, so who do I shame? In fact, I depict breaking of TOS and help devs.

It does not matter if they are bots or not - you are simply not allowed to name anyone period.

[Canadane]

And speaking of "name and shame" - those are bots and not actual players, so who do I shame? In fact, I depict breaking of TOS and help devs.

Innocent until proven guilty.
And the fourm moderators will remove innocent names from your shaming topic, you'll be held accountable.

Just play it safe, talk about the situation without actually posting pictures of the bots.

[Mitsuka_Souji]

Innocent until proven guilty.
And the fourm moderators will remove innocent names from your shaming topic, you'll be held accountable.

Just play it safe, talk about the situation without actually posting pictures of the bots.

The picture below named "Pugilist Guild" and there are no statements or assessments to it.

And you are completely wrong about calling this topic "shaming". It's the topic aimed to resolve in-game issue.

[lezard21]

The picture below named "Pugilist Guild" and there are no statements or assessments to it.

And you are completely wrong about calling this topic "shaming". It's the topic aimed to resolve in-game issue.

You shouldn't waste time arguing with other users about your interpretation of the ToS. The ToS is as the ToS is, it's not open for interpretation. You don't like it, argue with SE's customer service.

Regarding bots, they've been there, you probably didn't see them before. They know the low traffic hours and areas to exploit. A very common one is the Dannifen Pass tunnel in Central Coerthas. Starting last year I've even started seeing map bot parties, so they are well beyond free trial and HW content.

Its possible they're aware of the bots and just flagging them for action to be taken when they transition out of free version to paid version so they can see who it interacts with at that point in an attempt to trace and remove more of the actual RMT accounts conducting the actual business.

lol