A lot of exploiting taking place by bots on instant-respawn harvesting (Jute) nodes

DrywFiltiarn

I'm currently working on a leveling a new character and am currently questing around in Stonefalls. What I noticed a lot around there are the unbelievable amount of bots harvesting/exploiting instant-respawn Jute nodes. Around Fort Arand Wayshrine there are 3 Jute nodes that had 5 bots each continuously getting the Jute out, and Jute only, as there was one Jute node that had a Rune stone node next to it which was totally ignored by the bots.

These are just a couple of node I came across a couple of minutes ago, but yesterday I already encountered plenty more of these instant-respawn nodes that where heavily camped by bots.

Attached shots of the bots camping on the nodes (the one on horse is me obviously). All bots that where there when I came by have been reported.

It would be nice to know if there would be any way to contact in-game gamemasters on issues like these so they can take immediate action, as I feel that by the time these bots get reported and hopefully banned they have already harvested so much and probably sold all of it that they already have earned plenty of gold to transfer to a "safe" account that they can then use to become a gold-vendor selling in-game gold for real currency.

MasterWarrior

I have a bunch of screenshots as well but I don't know who to send them to. I don't want to report a particular player or bot. I want to report what is happening right now in an area so they can end it.. and I have screenshots to.

DrywFiltiarn

You can just attach files to your forum posts, just let's have a big topic with lots of screens from all the locations where these bots are actively exploiting.

Kyle_Roberts

Wouldn't waste my time If I was you, countless people including myself have made threads about this over the past 2-3 weeks and nothing has been done. Just continue to report the bots and hope for the best...

YourNameHere

Here is an add-on that was suggested to me by another forum user. It's set up to actually give the location of the person you are reporting, so it might help with locating the juste nodes as well.

I got it, and it works wonderfully.

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info181-FastReport.html

If you haven't already, get the addon client used Minion: http://minion.mmoui.com/

Then you can search there for FastReport by thelegendaryof

Once you install that in Minion, go into TESO then go to settings. You'll need to set up the report key (I used F5 in the key bindings).

So when you hover over someone, it will save the last name you captured, even if they disappear quickly. Hitting the key you chose for the report will bring up two windows, as shown in the screenshot http://cdn.eso.mmoui.com/preview/pvw554.jpg

Highlight and CTRL + C the information on the left hand window into the report window on the right hand side, then fill in the rest of what you saw, making sure to click from the drop down menu.

Hope this helps!

DrywFiltiarn

Well I do think Zenimax is working hard to battle this. They've done a pretty good job of cleaning the dungeons of bots already, haven't seen many there for a while now.

Every direct report will help them battle it because they can ban the accounts involved, as it would be nearly impossible for them to catch all those bots without our help.

The bots exploiting this current thing with the Jute nodes will resolve itself once the nodes have been fixed so they won't instant respawn again.