RMT sighting -.-

[Taskmage]

I think the logs pretty much sum it up.

When I took this shot I was standing at the Jugner-Batallia zoneline and my friend Zube was at the stone monument where Ahtu spawns:


The GM call:

[Jei]

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LOL
SE is banning warp hackers monthly now... that's a really stupid move on the RMT part imo.They'll be gone by the end of the month I'm sure xD OR even earlier.

[Caspian]

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Damn. Atleast, pos hackers are fairly straight forward to catch in the act.

Guess I dont' know which quest they're doing.
Unless its the selbina clay one.

[Taskmage]

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Yeah, it's the selbina clay one. The tablets from Batallia and Sauromugue both give 10k rewards since they're so hard to (legitly) get to. Adds up fast with 2-3 characters doing it simultaneously, warping to each headstone in a matter of minutes.

[Kirsteena]

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Also the quest involving Ahtu gives 10k reward. Again, all adds up.

Also, have you noticed they are getting past rank 6 now - that 100k for rank 10 must look mighty fine to them...

[Caspian]

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Also, have you noticed they are getting past rank 6 now - that 100k for rank 10 must look mighty fine to them...

Yeah, some of them are, but the latest batch are staying at rank 1.
Do a /sea all rank 1. There are a lot of 75's at rank 1 now, it seems. Seems they're foregoing sky, and just choose to ruin the economy with this other crap.

[Taskmage]

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Some disturbing math:

We saw about 20 characters do this quest in half an hour.

Each of them would've made 20k so that's 400k in half an hour or 800k/hr.

After a day of doing this they'd have made 19.2 million gil.

Now imagine they're doing this on all 32 servers. That's over 614M new gil dumped into the economy in a day.

The last round of bannings removed 6.2 billion gil from the economy. That's only 10 times what a small group of people warp hacking this quest could create in 24 hours.

Yeah ... I hope they ban these guys quickly.

[Caspian]

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Might help a little if they raised the fame required to start that mission.
Maybe lvl 3 or 4. Not enough to put off a legit player (raising selbina fame is ridiculously easy), but enough to confuse rmt for awhile (crap. they still camped aquarius and LoO for while after the respective changes). And to just all around give them a bigger headache in order to get the quest.

[Kurb]

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we should have a PLAYER Vs RMT style PvP but with a twist switch the RMT kick ass gear with the regular gear of the Players lol

My friend tells me you can buy all this stuff online on e bay so like an idiot i just went on for a look
after spending over 500k <all of my money> on gear in the last 2 weeks I was soooo tempted
Solution no more e bay for me
ahhhh i went back on e bay now i am soooooo tempted.....bahh i'll just but the proper guide

[DR2D2]

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I know this is a little late for this post but yesterday a member of the linkshell that I'm in noticed 2 RMTs at Bastok markets AH. WTF, if we can spot them why does it take so long for something to be done with them? Just ban them and let them appeal there way back in( I would love to see them squirm out of this one)--PS, I wasn't near Bastok at the time so I didn't get a chance to see what they were selling(I can only imagine)

[LyonheartLakshmi]

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Good work, Taskmage! Pass on my thanks to your friend as well. It seems your actions had at least a small impact on today's bannings.
Apparently, this quest was "fixed" back on the 16th, according to this announcement. Anyone have any idea what this fix entailed?

[Malevolent]

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Good work, Taskmage! Pass on my thanks to your friend as well. It seems your actions had at least a small impact on today's bannings.
Apparently, this quest was "fixed" back on the 16th, according to this announcement. Anyone have any idea what this fix entailed?

maybe alts on the same content ID can't do it?? but i dunno just got an escort thru necropolis twice with my main and lvl 20 and i was able to do it. Thought that'd be it but i was able to do it on my alt. Maybe they raised the fame lvl needed to get the quest??

[Taskmage]

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Hey, all right! ^^ I had to wonder how much of a difference it would make when I made the GM call; whether they would just ban an account or two or somehow stop the pattern of behavior. Awesome to see my specific concerns addressed so completely.

And wow at "the removal of approximately 17.2 billion gil from circulation." Even in the worst case scenario of them milking this particular quest for all it's worth, this round of bannings would've nuked a month's worth of progress for the RMT. That doesn't account for other methods, but dang.

I looked up current gil prices on Lakshmi and figured out that 17.2 billion gil equals approximately $758,348 that just evaporated for them. ^^

[eticket109]

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On a related noe, there is a very large movement in the JP and NA community to MPK as many of the fishbots in Battallia as possible. There's a japanese picture floating around that even gives step by step instructions on how to do it. There are also a number of Youtube videos out as well. One method involves popping the NM tigers for a chocobo quest and inconveniently DC'ing near the botters. The other method is basically the same but involves the use of a Goblin Digger. Since the NMs and the Digger will not despawn, they um... latch on to the nearest aggroable target they find.

Keep in mind though that this is technically MPK which can and will be punishable by GMs. So far though the GMs seem pretty lax and I've only heard about one ban after someone spent 8 hours doing it and racked up about 270 kills. They banned her for 24 hours and it was clear from the convo that the GM didn't even want to do that much.

I personally wouldn't do it, but I can't blame anyone who does.

[Taskmage]

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That's awfully tempting ... -.-;

I just checked and there are currently 30+ bots in Batallia.