abusing 3rd party software for gathering(Encourage to report)

[Applesnap]

Yes, you should report all of these as soon as you see them. I know first-hand how frustrating it is to report them and see nothing happening, as with the fleece farming bots I've witnessed in Coerthas. However, keep doing it.

The effect this behaviour has on our server economies is devastating and it needs to be stopped. It facilitates RMT money-making and no honest, decent person wants that in FFXIV. Let's get rid of them.

[DrakeSteele]

Found this little guy while getting some Wind Crystals. Turns out he's been botting since launch, been reported a ton and just went into hiding.


Seeing the FC tag I did a player search of miners in the Black Shroud...

Only one <SOW> there.

[StarMarmot]

Should also be aware that not every bot teleports. Have seen a few that seemed like normal players, until I started to get a bit suspicious, since nobody can be as crazy as to mine as much as I do. :P They jump occasionally, one had a companion and both I've seen were in known guilds. However, when you start to notice their path, maybe even place your character in it and wait for them to make a full lap, you'll see it's on perfect rails, even if it doesn't always jump in the same spots. Naturally they won't respond to tells or /say.

One of them was at Bluefog, and even had a function to backtrack and run in circles off path when one of the fates spawned in the mining area.

[storied_hero]

This is getting frustrating and it's hard to believe anything is being done about it. Every lvl5-lvl10 mining/botany node always has at least one or two bots there on my server.

[Yoseph]

Saw this today and reported it as well.

Now I understand how they can make so much gil. These toons are cheating and making all that gil to sell through gil selling web sites probably.

They always find a way to ruin the games.

[Athyr]

Saw the same this today that StarMarmot did. Didn't think anything of it until they started running in the exact same patterns every single time. And wouldn't even run straight at the nodes as they got closer to them they would run the same 'rail' until they get close to a node then dart over to the one they wanted to harvest.

It's mind numbing to harvest a few hundred items but at least don't bot!