Please don't call me a bot!

[Wilksha]

I've never been accuse of being a bot, but i felt like a bot when i was farming the dreaded fleece. I was camping the northern east 2 and after awhile you realize mobs spawn in the same place ever time and as a SMN your AoE ground DoT can be used to claim mobs as they spawn. This became a huge chain of aoe the ground, Bio2, miasma, bio, fester, turnaround aoe the ground, bio2, miasma, bio, fester, and 1 min downtime to wait for the first to respawn. If this doesn't seem like botting it sure in hell felt like it.
If you ever get a tell because the thing your botting, respond. Basic bots are not bright enough at the moment to respond to tells. So by staying silent you became flagged as a potential bot by that player. Even a half witted response will do, like "Yeah I'm a bot, I'm killing these damn goats with my own two damn hands." With everybody so up in arms about everything, begin silent is a very bad idea.

[Altheras]

If you are accused of being a bot in a Shout, quickly respond in Shout as well, because i'm pretty sure bots don't converse or respond with meaningful replies.

So I would be sure to Shout back. You know, something like "Bots can't talk to you, Mister [fill in shouter's name which would require a Copy/Paste or a pair of real eyeballs]"

I did reply in shout ^^ Still, I kind of wish people would not assume you are a bot. It's like farming isn't allowed or expected because they are used to seeing bots. :/

[SanjiroLionheart]

And how are you supposed to level a craft that requires X drop when you have none of them and you have a job that can farm X? It eliminates the usefulness of having a melee/mage job to assist your DOH ones.

You can farm without killing half a dozen mobs at a time, I've been doing it on my Warrior just fine....1 at a time. I kill the mob I claim, then if possible claim another to kill. If I gank a mob from someone who's drawn out on it, with say...Tomahawk, I then apologize. I'm a firm believer in courtesy and manners when it comes to interactions with others online, normally. If they come at me negatively, then yes, I will retaliate in kind. To think you have to farm hordes of mobs just to get your goodies faster is both annoying and inconsiderate to other farmers / adventurers just trying to quest. :/

[Altheras]

I've posted this before, but this game needs a DoL to replace farming monsters...

Prospect/Triangulate show Mining/Botany locations, a new DoL would have an ability which shows various things like Docile Diremites, or Dead Aldgoats, which you can run up to and harvest Web/Horns/Skin/etc.

Do I want this to avoid the mad competition I face farming Snurble Tufts and Fleeces? Maybe.
Do I want this to avoid getting in the way of people who want to do their Hunting Log/quests/etc? Maybe.

Real reason I want this? So I no longer have to kill sheep. At all. Ever. Seriously. Killing sheep in this game makes me feel... Wrong...

This would be great! DoL-Hunter Nodes are set hunter traps. =D Yields skins, meats, horns, wool, etc.

[Nykal]

I'm fairly sure there was a rule against Hoarding in XI, to try to keep people from doing such things. Is there not one for XIV (yet)? It is rather annoying to run out and try to kill a mob for a quest, or to farm for your own crafts, and have someone with massive AoE's just obliterating everything in sight. Last I checked Hydaelyn didn't revolve solely around you, and as previously stated a simple response to the guy pointing fingers would have sufficed and avoided this thread entirely. I understand you have crafts to level, but others do as well, a wee bit of courtesy while farming goes quite a ways. Also, what's the point in mass farming when mobs are almost instant respawns, unlike XI where it took zomg *minutes* for them to come back?

So, what you're saying is, you don't want others to do it so you instead can do it. Got it.

[Genjimasa]

Report them all and let God sort them out, I say.

[JamesX]

People are perfectly free to make whatever conclusion they wish to make. Why concern yourself over it when their speculation is perfectly reasonable. A silent character that runs in the same patterns doing exact same thing over and over again is very suspicious. Whether you are a bot or not in truth doesn't really come into their deduction - they can only draw conclusion based on what they know.

So, what you're saying is, you don't want others to do it so you instead can do it. Got it.

Not sure how you drew that conclusion, I think he meant that be a little courteous and everyone can do it.

[Issac]

If you are interfering with people doing quests, you could be a good person and leave some for them. Just a thought, as many of the mat dropping mobs are for quests too. If you are farming a mob, pick a smaller group, not every single one in a big area, to let others also get the mats.

When I notice someone trying to do a quest, I tag them and let them kill it so they get credit and I get my mats.

Win-win.

[ReplicaX]

How about a nice game of chess?

[AlmaMalma]

their behavior was "off"

What's the definition of 'off' behaviour? The second time I farmed I actually started using different mounts, cheering at miners, what the heck are you expected to do? WHY should you have to justify your farming to someone who's cheesed off that you're doing it faster than them?