Novice Network overrun with spam bots

[Sinova]

Heya




Just a Reminder that this still exsists, it's been from this morning.

Best Regards
Taya

[Sinova]

Due to the EU Servercrash, all the Bots returned to the NN and start again with their Spam

[18:53][NOVICE]Ox Nellemond: 0
[18:54]Novice - Ox Nellemond has been kicked from the channel by Tayaka Hono.
Reason: Novice Network Bot. It's Kicking Time

https://prnt.sc/OqNOOHktW8SD
https://prnt.sc/GPGc1ODpwhfa
https://prnt.sc/d84em_tmlIuM

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

[Sinova]

Due to the EU Servercrash, all the Bots returned to the NN and start again with their Spam

[18:53][NOVICE]Ox Nellemond: 0
[18:54]Novice - Ox Nellemond has been kicked from the channel by Tayaka Hono.
Reason: Novice Network Bot. It's Kicking Time

https://prnt.sc/OqNOOHktW8SD
https://prnt.sc/GPGc1ODpwhfa
https://prnt.sc/d84em_tmlIuM

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

After Continuesly kicking for several Hours i sent another list with over 110 Bots to the STF.
Atm we're capped on the NN again

https://prnt.sc/sshIeddbjWSP

Right now there's over 200 Bots in the Novice Network

Thanks for your Time and Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

[LadyCrim]

If only we knew! I would very much like to see a new system stating in chat which mentor invites which character so we can eliminate the source. I have never in all my years playing seen anything like this.

[LadyCrim]

After Continuesly kicking for several Hours i sent another list with over 110 Bots to the STF.
Atm we're capped on the NN again

https://prnt.sc/sshIeddbjWSP

Right now there's over 200 Bots in the Novice Network

Thanks for your Time and Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

Thank you for taking the time to post and provide evidence, hopefully someone out there will sit up and take note.

[Sinova]

Heya,

It's 1.22 AM German Time

Currently there are 318 "New Adventurers" in the novice Network. I did count 181 Real Players, which means there's 137 Bots currently in our Novice Network. So 43% of the Novice Network now is Bots. During Primetime it goes up to over 240 Bots.

I would like to take screens as Evidence but I know that if I send Playernames of actual players the Post just gets deleted.

So I'll refrain from that and will send a List of Bots tomorrow again. Maybe somewhen the STF will take care of them


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

PS: If you need information or want a talk, just pull me into the GM Jail whenever. I and I know alot of others will help to provide Evidence as long as we know that someone is actually looking into it.

Louisoix - Tayaka Hono - Young Edda - Au'Ra Xaela - Male (Server - Name - FC Name - Race - Gender) , so you know you got the right one

[Sinova]

Good Evening,

~Push~

Reported another 120 Bots from today.

Thank you for your Work and as I said, I don't blame the GM's, neither Ingame or Forum because they do a great work. So does the STF (I see alot of banned Accounts in the News) but they are just not enough Members to take care of the EU Bots in my Opinion.

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

[Vinserus]

Also agreeing with all that's been said so far. This is quite the surge of bot activity, and it's really inconvenient that it's rampant in Novice Network now. I've been doing my part and kicking them as I can but I did log into FFXIV to actually play the game, not play Kick-A-Bot. And sometimes I'll finish up a cutscene or duty to see that one bot has managed to spam "0" a few times before I could get to kicking them.

Looking forward to a solution soon.
Vinserus Daemon

[MaaryZeleste]

no cap on a stack fr fr
squeenix is a multi dollar company they cant afford to deal with bots

[Sinova]

no cap on a stack fr fr
squeenix is a multi dollar company they cant afford to deal with bots

~Push~

I'm sorry but Sarcasm doesn't really help our Case.
They can deal with Bots, they did it in the past but I guess the STF is concentrated on different Matters atm. It's just that they don't have the required Manpower at the moment. Besides you see a LOT of Accounts getting banned every Week and the Ingame GM's do a fantastic Job (but their Hands are bound to neither having the rights but also not having the tools to check for bots)


So Anyway, Back to Topic:

Atm we still have over 100+ Bots in our Novice Network. Filling it up until a few Mentor kick 10 or so to make space for Newbies.
Could we maybe have some kind of a Roadmap on how we can help or where to go from now?


Best Regards
Tayaka Hono