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    Kaiche's Avatar
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    Reeka Teeks
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    Phoenix
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    Black Mage Lv 82

    Bots, Bots and more Bots!

    So I've been travelling around The coerthas highlands and I've noticed that Every single Spawn for those black sheep (Ornery Karakuls) or whatever they're called have bots just farming them all day, Here's the problem...

    These sheep are a part of the storyline because you need to kill a set amount to proceed but players can't because you have whole parties of 8 camping at each spawn useing macros to use their skills while their afk doing whatever. This goes on for hours and now
    it's been a day so far and people are still botting.

    This is also a "Get rich quick" Scheme as the fleece the mob gives you are worth a decent amount of gil. I believe this needs to be fixed as it's an exploit, I mean seriously bots at every spawn? I bet you if you go to the coerthas highlands you will see people just constantly farming.
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    ReplicaX's Avatar
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    Methos Ranperre
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    Jenova
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    Ninja Lv 70
    Been happening since launch and I've reported it countless times through the Support Desk. Weeks ago I could easily out claim their slow programs, however I'm sure from legit players like myself out claiming them, they have improved their tools.
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    Hikozaemon's Avatar
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    Hikozaemon Kenkonken
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    Hyperion
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    Pugilist Lv 50
    yep they stand in place usually on arc/bard or thm and just spam all damn day long and SE doesnt give a shit if u report them. if they claim 2 mobs open a trade window w/ them if they got a shitty bot script it will cause them to stop attacking and the mobs will eventually kill them. another thing is A LOT of these bots are legit players too. There is a ls on hyperion "Convinction" which ive witnessed 3 botters so far botting sheeps in Highlands the latest toons name was Dio's Boobs and a prior one Boobarella..something. a player came by and opened a trade window w/ the bot and low and behold it stood there for 15mins while 3 sheep beat it to death. i went back later that night and the bot was still there DEAD. WOW thats a real player killing sheep right? Another bot on hyperion is Mingren Zhihua near dragonhead
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    Craniux's Avatar
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    Edgar Highwind
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    Cactuar
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    Lancer Lv 50
    You do know that there is no such thing as mob tagging in this game...you can do enough dmg to a mob and it would still count for xp and quest.
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    Shio Ramen
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    Leviathan
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    Dragoon Lv 60
    I saw this when I had to do the sheep quest too. Now I wanna go back and try the death-by-trades-and-sheep thing, just for lols.
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    mythicrose's Avatar
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    Mythic Rose
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    Cactuar
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    Lancer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Craniux View Post
    You do know that there is no such thing as mob tagging in this game...you can do enough dmg to a mob and it would still count for xp and quest.
    Not for loot table, though. Only 9 sheep in this game drop a much needed crafting item for anyone trying to level weaver. It's as bad, if not far worse than those competing for diremite web and sinew.
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    To kill these bots, run straight up to them and trade them. They stop attacking and they get killed. Hope this helps.
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    Apaku Ashe
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    Faerie
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    Conjurer Lv 25
    Quote Originally Posted by Craniux View Post
    You do know that there is no such thing as mob tagging in this game...you can do enough dmg to a mob and it would still count for xp and quest.
    Tagging exists for any loot drops, does it not? XP and quest completion aren't the only reasons to kill a mob.
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    Neoma Darque
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    Famfrit
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    Fisher Lv 22
    Sounds like I would be trying to find friendly people to help me swarm the area then if botting nightmare. That is horrible and I do like macros but SE seems to be very slow and uninformed on how to handle this in MMOs. Knew a kid who was using scripts in FFXI and it was months before he finally got banned. If I had been playing then I would have reported him myself. I know it would be abused so can't have it but this is where I wish there were community tools to handle this sort of thing along with gil spammers.
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  10. #10
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    Edgar Highwind
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    Cactuar
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    Lancer Lv 50
    replying to the fact about the questing not loot
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