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.

[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.