Cloned players with weird names?

[Zantetsuken]

I've always wondered if there is a server-side transaction log in MMO games like this.

RMT has 12 bots, each gaining 40k gil per hour, they trade the gil to 'account X', (or buy overpriced item from 'account X' in bazaar/MW)

Couldn't they just track the gil and ban 'account X' as well? This method would eradicate months (if not years) of RMT gil accumulation.

On top of that, they could ban entire IP adresses from known RMT.

[Antipika]

IP Ban = not efficient. Anyone can come up with 100's of IPs and change at will.

As for tracing the money back, that's supposedly what the STF is doing (at least on XI, they did). Those billions gil removed every now and then from the economy weren't done by banning RMTs one by one. But on XIV it seems like for now SE don't care. They will probably wait for ARR.

[AzuraSin]

What's really messed up is I've seen them numerous times in wolf camp (Natalan). Ballsy RMT.

[Alhanelem]

I apologize, but I'm quite a noob at the game. But I'm pretty sure they're doing more than just "playing the game", and I have no idea what "rmt" means. Could you please be more helpful, or refrain from commenting?

They find it hard to believe you really don't know, that's why they're acting that way. Also, it should be pretty obvious from them all being identical and having gibberish names and all being in the same place doing the same thing that SOMETHING is up.

RMT means Real Money Trade, and these "people" are farming gil to sell to players for Dollars (real money). They are the scum of the earth and you should report any you see to the Special Task Force on SE's support site.

[deathstix]

I thought someone (in another thread) suggested to have Atomos and his minions appear at Cedarwood.......

but guess not.