Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
I'd be curious to hear from players on Aether whether all their usual suspects remained active while Aether was Congested or if many of them slowly disappeared. If some had disappeared, will they suddenly start reappearing next week now that there's been a few days to make new characters again.
Most of our "usual suspects" have been around since Stormblood and few of them have actually disappeared or ceased activity since then. There was a later secondary surge of bots in the tail end of Shadowbringers due to them basically cracking the system and making a "one and done" script that can take a freshly-skipped account through the 5.0 MSQ as well as grind every DoH/L job to 80.

The only time they tend to be gone for any noticeable amount of time is immediately after major patches, and in the case of Endwalker they just stuck to botting 5.x content until the scripts got updated for 6.0 maybe about a week after release because it typically only takes a day or two for the developers to patch up existing scripts.