Botters already in full swing

[NoEmpathy]

On my server Fearie botters are already popping up in parties... today we had a bunch of people standing around watching a group of botters who where grinding in a corner in Eastern Thanalan for days on end they where in their high lv 20's all with lv 1 gear on still.. lol and when they all died to a fate i noticed an idiot raising them unless it was someone they knew.. regardless they have been grind botting for days on end lol.. wonder if they plan on putting in any anti bot tools or if they will just be free to roam and later we will find a group of lv 50's with lv 1 armor and completly dumb on their class because they didnt earn it or worse bought the characters from soemone botting chars up and selling them

[OddOne]

SE was aggressively anti-botting and anti-RMT in FFXI once it became clear that players generally despise botting/RMT and started taking their subscription money elsewhere. Hopefully they'll be more proactive in ARR and hammer this particular nail down before it works itself loose.

[Yamitri]

On my server Fearie botters are already popping up in parties... today we had a bunch of people standing around watching a group of botters who where grinding in a corner in Eastern Thanalan for days on end they where in their high lv 20's all with lv 1 gear on still.. lol and when they all died to a fate i noticed an idiot raising them unless it was someone they knew.. regardless they have been grind botting for days on end lol.. wonder if they plan on putting in any anti bot tools or if they will just be free to roam and later we will find a group of lv 50's with lv 1 armor and completly dumb on their class because they didnt earn it or worse bought the characters from soemone botting chars up and selling them

I mean no disrespect by this, but can you confirm this? Like, how did you know? To be fair, what if it was me? what if i just decided to be lazy and not waste money on gear until around 30-35?

[Reinheart]

I mean no disrespect by this, but can you confirm this? Like, how did you know? To be fair, what if it was me? what if i just decided to be lazy and not waste money on gear until around 30-35?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvykGI8BBs&noredirect=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHX8uePEdy4&noredirect=1

[Estheyr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvykGI8BBs&noredirect=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHX8uePEdy4&noredirect=1

That's the exact same setup I've seen around the Coeurl Server too. They all got murdered by the FATE event in the area but later on got resurrected.

[ScreamingFalcon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvykGI8BBs&noredirect=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHX8uePEdy4&noredirect=1

Funny thing, the second video relinked to a bot making tutorial.

[HateSmokes]

It is not difficult to spot botters if you have A)been observant, B) spent more than a moment observing, which the op seems to have done, by the mention of having seen them for hours in the zone, C) seen their ilk before and know what to look for. If they all died together, and just lay there for quite some time before their deaths are noticed, it is likely they were bots. This is not a difficult thing to detect. No one just "decides not to waste money on gear". Even if you never buy any, you get enough from completing quests and so on to be wearing SOMETHING.

[NoEmpathy]

lol we had a mob of about 10-20 ppl standing around in eastern thanalan talking about them botting shouting about it i came back next day they had gone from lv 10-20 to 20-30 and stilll grinding in the same exact corner w ith their party of 4.. still lv 1 gear still no responses no talking not nothing just sitting there botting... lol how did we know.. u play the game for 3 days straight no rest never move from the same spot and lemme know if ur "just being lazy and not waste money on gear" i cant tell if ur a botter to and just tryin to mask one of the signs or not.. if ur really saying ur wearing all lv 1 gear at lv 36+ still grinding low lv mobs with a group in corners and not responding to anyone for days on end yea i'll call you a botter to

[LessLoveLess8]

lol we had a mob of about 10-20 ppl standing around in eastern thanalan talking about them botting shouting about it i came back next day they had gone from lv 10-20 to 20-30 and stilll grinding in the same exact corner w ith their party of 4.. still lv 1 gear still no responses no talking not nothing just sitting there botting... lol how did we know.. u play the game for 3 days straight no rest never move from the same spot and lemme know if ur "just being lazy and not waste money on gear" i cant tell if ur a botter to and just tryin to mask one of the signs or not.. if ur really saying ur wearing all lv 1 gear at lv 36+ still grinding low lv mobs with a group in corners and not responding to anyone for days on end yea i'll call you a botter to

could be a south park character >.> just saying.

[Slynk]

lol we had a mob of about 10-20 ppl standing around in eastern thanalan talking about them botting shouting about it i came back next day they had gone from lv 10-20 to 20-30 and stilll grinding in the same exact corner w ith their party of 4.. still lv 1 gear still no responses no talking not nothing just sitting there botting... lol how did we know.. u play the game for 3 days straight no rest never move from the same spot and lemme know if ur "just being lazy and not waste money on gear" i cant tell if ur a botter to and just tryin to mask one of the signs or not.. if ur really saying ur wearing all lv 1 gear at lv 36+ still grinding low lv mobs with a group in corners and not responding to anyone for days on end yea i'll call you a botter to

Sounds like bots, but you never know. Macros in this game are pretty intense. I made myself a 15 line macro to maximize xp on my crafts. I select what to craft, hit Ctr+1, and boom 1.3k xp on an elm log cut. Beats the hell out of "quick synth" xp and I even have it set up for the scenario of a failed cut. Just saying if you see me in Faerie cranking out elm logs like there was no tomorrow, know I'm not a bot, just made a kick ass in game macro.