Warp Hacking

[Aeni]

If you notice this, please report the players immediately, so that enough reports can make SE take a look at this problem as a high priority.



While stealthed, they will finish mining a node, disappear (like they d/c'd) and then reappear, still stealthed, at their next node (remember, the node points are personalized in this game, so other players may not necessarily be mining from the exact same point as you are)

[DakAttack]

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Reported somebody for this, just yesterday. I never noticed it until I saw this thread.

[Taskmage]

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There's been a guy doing this in Central Thanalan on Adamantoise for at least four days straight. The positioning is not quite right, so he falls out of the freakin' sky onto the mining point each time. I've reported him twice, once yesterday and once on Saturday, and no action whatsoever has been taken. It's extremely frustrating and discouraging. It would take a GM less time than it took me to fill out the contact form to see that a blatant and obvious violation is taking place, yet nothing.

Worse, at least three more bots have sprung up in that area. Now they're actually moving around underground, making them harder to detect, and one of them was a level 50 miner that they apparently stole. Thank the Twelve they seem to have no idea how to use it effectively, yet.

[Taskmage]

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And now the RMT spam is advertising the price of shards and crystals instead of gil. Gee, wonder where they're getting those from.

[DakAttack]

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The spam is annoying, but I've been looking at the prices they're offering. They seem cheap, but I don't have a good sense of the value of gil, yet. It seems like you can't do much with it.

[Taskmage]

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I don't know first hand what it's like at higher levels, but the uses for gil seem to be a narrow range of player-made goods that are used for making relics, and repairs. The demand for the former is limited, and the cost of the latter was reduced.

If they've balanced it so that gil is useful and essential, but not so indispensable that people feel the need to buy it, I'll be extremely impressed. It seems for the moment that that might be the case.

They seriously need to crack down on this botting problem though.

[Taskmage]

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The guy I was raging about a couple of days ago is finally nowhere to be found, and when I rode around that general area I didn't see any other bots, either. '-')b

[Jarre]

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I reported 3 bots yesterday in central thanalan when i was starting my mining.

[Malacite]

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I did my part.

Someone in-game told me that if you trade one of those bots, they freeze up. So I basically started MPKing the guys who were teleport farming the diremites until their gear broke.

If SE won't do anything about 'em, I will.

[Taskmage]

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Teleport farming diremites? -_- Sweet merciful Nald.

I heard about the trade thing, but with the miners I could never get the trade window up before they popped out of range.

[Aeni]

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Teleport farming diremites? -_- Sweet merciful Nald.

I heard about the trade thing, but with the miners I could never get the trade window up before they popped out of range.

If you wait near one of the nodes, they will appear next to it eventually, and then use macro (target, trade) to do it more quickly than using the convoluted menu system. However, I did not know about this "trade will freeze the bots", so this is worth a shot.

[Malacite]

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Some of them have an auto-cancel code written, but the ones I've encountered don't.

So unless they're on ACN, they'll stop dead and just let the mob wail on them.

[Aeni]

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Reported another one ... this was pretty blatant no matter how you look at it.

[Jarre]

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At least many people can use the same spot and it doesn't disapear like in FFXI when one person has used it

[Aeni]

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SE added an update to their fight against RMT:

FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone | Regarding Actions Taken Against In-Game RMT Ads and Illicit Activities (Oct. 1)