The bot in Wrothgar gained over 300 CP since I first saw it, which makes me wonder how many mats it picked up.

Maybe its a single person using multiboxing?

Can ppl quit posting bots and not say what platform and server you are on. Also a landmark would be good i.e. West of Skyreach wayshrine. There would be no way for Devs to know what you are referencing.

DHale wrote: »

Can ppl quit posting bots and not say what platform and server you are on. Also a landmark would be good i.e. West of Skyreach wayshrine. There would be no way for Devs to know what you are referencing.

I did say I was PC/NA in the OP. And Silsailen in Auridon is a small area.

DHale wrote: »

Sorry to not be clear... in the title. There are at least 6 Auridons and at least 12 active bot posts going right now.

Edited the title. Curious to see how many other players have seen this train. The fact that there are so many bot threads going indicates how bad it is getting. Not as bad as PC release (good luck finishing a quest when 20 bots zap the boss immediately), but really noticeable.

There's a bot train at Vivec's Antlers almost 24/7 pulling all the dreugh. It's all sorcs with lightning form racing around and pulling them all to one central area to AoE them down. And I mean 24/7, I've seen some of the same ones every time, all times of the day, for weeks now. I've screen shotted it with time stamps a few times, but I doubt it'll do much good. Oh well.

It doesn't prevent me from completing the quests there though, I even took advantage of it the other night when I desperately needed a few more peices of leather for my crafting writs. I just dropped a weak AoE on the one spot where the bots pull all the Dreugh and bing bang bosh, Leather Pants. Someone probably paid money for that extremely obvious bot that will get them banned eventually (maybe 6 months from now, but they always get caught eventually) and all I had to do was walk by and press '2' once to profit off their choice. I can't even be mad about that.

As to why it takes so long to report bots? They probably have a very small portion of staff dedicated to reviewing bot reports by hand to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's not just a bad player, as automated bans will do FAR more damage than botters ever could.

Imagine you usually play 2 hours a day, but play for 8 on your day off and really get your AP grind on, only to then get auto-flagged for botting and banned. It's happened to me before, twice. Even worse, imagine if a group of players decided to all report an individual they dislike as a bot and it auto-flagged and banned them due to the number od reports, even though they were doing nothing wrong? Other games do use systems like that and they suck. Not only that but if Zeni are already struggling to address bot reports, the ban appeals they'd have to handle from automated bans, legitimate or not, would doubtlessly greatly outnumber the actual bot reports.

Banning doesn't even 'fix' the problem because botters just buy new accounts and do it again. Read some of the slimy bot forums sometimes, you'll see them say they've gone through 9-10 accounts, with large scale 'bot farms' reporting they've had 30 out of 200 running bots banned this banwave, etc. The best method of anti-botting is to de-incentivize it. If they can't turn a reasonable profit they will look for a different crack to ooze through instead.

DHale wrote: »

Thank you I have gotten about 75 plus bots removed as I know someone I can e-mail. I will get on when I get home from work.

@DHale

I have two reports on a 3 person bot train in Drowned Coast Dolmen in Greenshade

170404-003489
170404-003478

These bots have been here for more than 6 months, close to a year, all running the same goofy pattern

Bot train is active right now in PC NA Silsailen

rotaugen454 wrote: »

I went through the probably useless exercise of making a video of the bot train and sending it to support, although the categories to choose from don't seem to include botting, just exploits. I'd post it here, but then I'd get slammed for naming and shaming while the botters keep going.

You could make another video without naming & shaming. Turn off the UI before recording.

Was on ps4 the other night and zone text chat was spammed constantly by several different gold sellers. Ugh

PelinalWhitestrake wrote: »

Time to buy a mud ball runebox on NA and visit those bots.

I wonder if mudballing two of the three could get the lead one killed, then mudball one until the second is killed?

It is very frustrating to take the time to record and video, only to see the same bot train continue without penalty. A handful of ingame GMs could put out zone calls for locations and clear the game out quickly across platforms.

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