Fishing bots on the moon

[Breakbeat]

And this is why bot armies are such a problem. I don't know a single person that would actually go through all those hoops for each invididual bot.

Seriously?

Over the years I've seen hundreds of threads from gamers (in various games) who seem to have their life dedicated to bot policing and don't even seem to be involved in the game itself. People who claim to have watched groups of bots for eighteen hours out of a twenty-four hour day to see if their behavior matches some set pattern. Returning to these bot farm areas day after day after day to check up on their behavior. And, yes, putting in dozens of tickets regarding the aforementioned bots.

People who are clinically obsessive or compulsive about the bots.

There are definitely, without a doubt, a slew of people who would sit there and put in fifty reports for fifty bots. Shoot, they'd do that before they make their morning coffee. The fact is that anyone who lurks or participates in online discussion about bots should accept this as a given. There's folks out there that dedicate their whole existence to the community policing of bots... and get vehemently upset when their grassroots efforts to 'prosecute' the bots come to naught.

[Limecat]

More than anything, I'm curious why they'd bother. It can't be a gil-making scheme, or there'd be hundreds of RMT bots doing it. There's only so many hi-cordials you need to cart around, and you get more than enough white scrips for those from the custom deliveries each week. Tier 9 materia are dirt-cheap, assuming you haven't stockpiled several hundred of them already. Am I missing something obvious here? And why the wandering? What possible purpose does that serve? They're not hiding from or fooling anyone with that.

[Eraden]

More than anything, I'm curious why they'd bother. It can't be a gil-making scheme, or there'd be hundreds of RMT bots doing it. There's only so many hi-cordials you need to cart around, and you get more than enough white scrips for those from the custom deliveries each week. Tier 9 materia are dirt-cheap, assuming you haven't stockpiled several hundred of them already. Am I missing something obvious here? And why the wandering? What possible purpose does that serve? They're not hiding from or fooling anyone with that.

If I had to guess, it probably has something to do with optimizing their resources. They are probably fishing to obtain scrips in between harvest periods of the ephemeral nodes. Less cost in terms of teleport fees.

[NekoMataMata]

It's a tough situation. They could make it so the fish aren't worth so much scrip, but then fishing in general loses appeal and purpose.

Wouldn't hurt fishing's scrips too much since ocean fishing gives plenty.

[KageTokage]

If I had to guess, it probably has something to do with optimizing their resources. They are probably fishing to obtain scrips in between harvest periods of the ephemeral nodes. Less cost in terms of teleport fees.

Nah, it's not that. They only have FSH leveled and only ever leave the zone to do turn-ins or change servers for...some reason.

Last I checked there was nearly 30 of them across the whole of Aether DC.

[Jojoya]

There are definitely, without a doubt, a slew of people who would sit there and put in fifty reports for fifty bots. Shoot, they'd do that before they make their morning coffee. The fact is that anyone who lurks or participates in online discussion about bots should accept this as a given. There's folks out there that dedicate their whole existence to the community policing of bots... and get vehemently upset when their grassroots efforts to 'prosecute' the bots come to naught.

Unfortunately for every player who is going to sit there and send in those reports (even though it's not needed, SE knows they're there), there are 5 players eager to buy gil from those bots.

Ban a bot, and another one has taken its place 3 days later.

Then there are the players who are happy with the bots because they keep the price of the gathering mats (esp the aethersands) low on the marketboard. Sometimes I wonder if that's why SE isn't overly aggressively in removing them.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I thought this was a silly thread....but recently I just cleared Mare on my Hrothgar Alt (yeah, he is very behind -_ - ) and as I went through that cave there was a big line of Fishers.
I couldn't believe it, it was actually kinda of neat to see people fishing on the Moon XD.

[DixieBellOCE]

GM's are not allowed to do anything with bots
That's the special forces task force.
You'd need to report each and every single one of them seperately with a different report on the website.

In which case they would get banned 5 years later because the THREE people that work that office literally do nothing.
Oce Eureka bots were individually reported for 6 months straight by everyone in Eureka, they are still there today, raking in 700m+ in RMT gil per day.

Company either doesn't care or the STF just does not exist at all.

[DixieBellOCE]

The funny thing about these bots is that they fly into the cave entrance, walk in, fish and cancel immediately after casting, then walk out of the cave and mount up.

You can fly in the cave.
Very Obvious.

[Darthgummibear]

It doesn't matter. There are gatherers ran by bots that have been reported since 2019 that are still running free in the game with the same characters and bot-ring FCs to this day.

Just days ago I made a thread myself about this exact spot. It's so blatant it's absurd and these bots are destroying the game's economy.