Fishing bots on the moon

[Krojack]

A GM could visit 22x30 on the moon (inside the cave) and see at minimum 12+ bots all fishing. Seems bots fish here for a white scrips fish.

[ICountFrom0]

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.

[Darthgummibear]

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.

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.

[ReynTime]

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.

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Deveryn]

Make sure they're actually a bot before you report.

[Deveryn]

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.