Hey look a spreadsheet of all the eureka bots!

[Scruit_Bigtime]

sure, that works as long as you overlook the fact the investigating a bot involves more than looking at a few singular instances of events, any serious scrutiny would identify real players via their interactions with other players and the more generalised randomness in the way they move and go about things about.

[DixieBellOCE]

Mods and GMs don't deal with bots.

The Special Task Force does. Send your spreadsheet to them via the Support Center link.

we have.

For 5 months.

It does nothing.

[LianaThorne]

we have.

For 5 months.

It does nothing.

Because like others have said, banning the bots themselves is pointless. Banning the shell accounts means nothing and they're easily replaceable. Banning bots on their own means nothing and there will be new ones to replace it the next day. You'd have to somehow get the ringleader to admit to running the entire scheme while being on their main character/account for it to matter. Then, they could go about perma-banning them and all related accounts under their IP/MAC address. Just sending them a random list of bot names will get you nowhere, you need the main person.

The person/people behind this are whales. They genuinely do not care about replacing shell accounts and will do so as long as they are continuing to generate a profit. Banning gil buyers will ultimately hurt them more than having to continuously make new shell accounts. Should switch up your crusade to target them instead of easily replaceable bots.

[Kes13a]

And if the RMTs start to offer free gils in town to unsuspicious players to get them banned, how do you deal with that ? Just asking because there was a post about how the eureka bots did start to regen legit players in response to the former being MPKed by the later, so i don't think it would hard to replace the regen by free gils trades.

thats a little misleading and you know it. They are not going to be offering free gil in the amounts that you, me and everyone else know they would be in order to trip some invisible notification to SE. and they are not going to just give away millions. sure, some innocent person may put up one apple juice for 20 million gil.... but I highly doubt it.

[DixieBellOCE]

Because like others have said, banning the bots themselves is pointless. Banning the shell accounts means nothing and they're easily replaceable. Banning bots on their own means nothing and there will be new ones to replace it the next day. You'd have to somehow get the ringleader to admit to running the entire scheme while being on their main character/account for it to matter. Then, they could go about perma-banning them and all related accounts under their IP/MAC address. Just sending them a random list of bot names will get you nowhere, you need the main person.

The person/people behind this are whales. They genuinely do not care about replacing shell accounts and will do so as long as they are continuing to generate a profit. Banning gil buyers will ultimately hurt them more than having to continuously make new shell accounts. Should switch up your crusade to target them instead of easily replaceable bots.

So pointless that massively inflated eureka instances are acceptable are they?

Removing the bots allows people to play content in the game without fighting an uphill battle of 1000% scaled instances.

But yes, lets just go ban people for swaring and leave actual gameplay unplayable for an entire Datacenter due to bots.

[Xrystofer]

you are aware that banning botting accounts solves absolutely nothing, when those people will just make new accounts and start over.

i'm sure they're working on trying to find a way to render the bot Ai neutered (hopefully in a way that doesn't inconvenience actual player) which is a better use of time than deleting and banning throwaway accounts day in and day out

Actually, it does. The thing is that it eats into their profits and the reason why botting exist is that it is profitable. What you have to do is to make their operation no longer profitable and they will move on to another game. You have to do it often thought or otherwise you won't solve anything. SE has to invest into in-game Game Masters that can observe players and most likely they are not willing to do that because hiring people is expensive.

[Larirawiel]

Dixie is an Elezen! <3

And the ban bots and RMT'ers:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...vities-(Jun.-2)

Cheers

[Xrystofer]

Dixie is an Elezen! <3

And the ban bots and RMT'ers:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...vities-(Jun.-2)

Cheers

You do realize that just a drop in the ocean, right? Look at the number of bot accounts that have been suspended or terminated.

That number is 26 when there are thousands of bots on each world. Lmao

[Larirawiel]

You do realize that just a drop in the ocean, right? Look at the number of bot accounts that have been suspended or terminated.

That number is 26 when there are thousands of bots on each world. Lmao

Yes, i know, that it is not very much. And i hope, they will find some reliable methods to detect bots. Without things like root kit-like anticheat software.




Cheers

[UNDEAD10000]

Imagine doing the devs jobs for them!

Any moderator or GM can contact me ingame if they have to balls to actually deal with this issue.

Please investigate and ban them, they have only been reported for.. 5 months straight..


Inb4 i get a ban for 'harassment' before the actual cheaters get a ban.

Well thing is banning bots from Eureka won't stop bots coming back to Eureka.
Removing bunny fate from Eureka won't stop bot coming back to Eureka as long there is other content that give good amount of gil.
Removing all gil rewards from Eureka can stop bots coming back to Eureka but then they move to other high gil gain content.

And as long players keep buying gil and other services with real money from RMT bots, the bots will always be problem in FFXIV.
So if you want there be less bots in any content is by banning players who buys gil and other services with real money from RMT bots or if you want get rid of bots completley is by making everything untradeable between players that bots don't have anything to sell to other player for real money but this is something that no one wants and it pretty much never happens.