Cheating and RMT exploitation has hit a new level of ridiculous.

[Skiros]

I'm always puzzled by how these bot farms involving several characters manage to escape notice of the STF because the scripting is painfully easy to see when there are multiple gathering or FATE bots all following the exact route in near perfect unison.

That assumes they're actually going to observe these players first-hand instead of monitoring them strictly through their server/client side activity/data, though.

Who knows what is really going on but I wouldn't be surprised if the STF has all but disbanded.

Time Period: Apr. 21, 2022 to Apr. 27, 2022

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 1519
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 1

・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 213

Time Period: Apr. 14, 2022 to Apr. 20, 2022

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 1,062
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 1
・Botting activity (excluding RMT vendors)
　・Accounts terminated: 3
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 8
*Botting activity by RMT vendors has been included under "Participation in RMT/prohibited activities."
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 339

Time Period: Apr. 7, 2022 to Apr. 13, 2022

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 1333
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 4

・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 148

Time Period: Mar. 31, 2022 to Apr. 6, 2022

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 1608
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 5

・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 153

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Compare this to last year:

Time Period: Apr. 15, 2021 to Apr. 21, 2021

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 2,102
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 13
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 702

Time Period: Apr. 8, 2021 to Apr. 14, 2021

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 3,346
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 16
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 6
*Botting activity by RMT vendors has been included under "Participation in RMT/prohibited activities."
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 1,789

Time Period: Apr. 1, 2021 to Apr. 7, 2021

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 3,258
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 30

・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 2,209


Time Period: Mar. 25, 2021 to Mar. 31, 2021

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 3,793
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 3
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
　・Accounts terminated: 3
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 2
*Botting activity by RMT vendors has been included under "Participation in RMT/prohibited activities."
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 1,991

Difference is clear to anyone who can do simple arithmetic. They aren't even trying to ban the endgame crafting RMT bots anymore over the last half year.

There's apparently some "all-in-one" PvP add-on/hack/bot that can automatically focus fire low HP players, auto-interrupt "problematic" abilities like LBs, and a whole bunch of other nonsense that makes me question why people even bother playing the game at all.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they made a fully functional PvP bot that can actually put up a better fight then some actual players. They do exist in Frontlines already but their lack of situational/spatial awareness tends to just send them running to their deaths.

Last season in Feast there were a dozen or so people in the t100 who were boosted and/or use speedhacks/triggers on Aether. I've only literally ever heard of one person, ever, being banned for boosting/wintrading/hacking in Feast. Though there's probably more I doubt even 10% of these people are ever banned.