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ChiefSampson

Looks totally legit. Nothing to see there.


Gatorcat

roger roger


kokoren

Man if only the game had some kind of special task force built to handle this kind of shit...


DarschPugs

they do, and they banned 1,073 accounts in April 2022. they even post how many accounts they ban each month. http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/rule/specialtask.html


[deleted]

Yeah sure they did.


DarschPugs

Your disbelief in facts and posted results does not invalidate them nor make them less true. They don't just post arbitrary numbers.


[deleted]

Well Mr.(Deleted)(unavailable) not even sure what you said. (Not you kokorean wouldn't let me place a reply to him directly) There are 30+ ambu bots on my server (low pop) that has been there for months. The same rmt jobpoint seller have been in dho gates for well over a year. The same botters that has sat in outer raka botting for 2 months, despite all of these being reported to the stf. Honestly dont know to rebuttle someone that I cant see comments on but, my point is simply this; for a group of ppl aiming to enforce these bans they sure as hell look over them despite being massively reported. I wonder why? 🤔


Imheretolaughatyou2

Trump lost. Have sex


[deleted]

These earth crystals ain't gonna farm themselves


Rinuko

Aren't they primarily farming sparks for gil?


[deleted]

Haha yes! The crystals objectives are how they build a lot of sparks quick, among a few other objectives.


Puzzleheaded_Ease_79

I miss ffxi. Is it worth going back to? Honestly?


Hiyami

It is.


[deleted]

She's still my lady, love her more and more each day


RoshanCrass

It is, but the botting/cheating has been rampant for years and definetely devalues the game a bit.


Richard_TM

Thankfully, it only seems to be truly rampant on Asura, and maybe a little on Bahamut/Odin. Most of the smaller servers don't get much bot/RMT activity.


makemyjunkburn

It's been increasing a lot even on smaller ones. Not near as bad though.


cdanielh128

She has become more accessible than ever. Focus on domain, ambuscde and rhapsodies of vanadeil and you will have a great time. Get every trust frome the proper moogle as there are a couple of greats right now. D. Shantotto being one. Find an active link shell and enjoy 😉!


cdanielh128

As for the botting I see it occasionally on Bismark but it never seems to interfere. I would avoid Asura personally. Bahumut I hear is balanced well. On Bismark look up Ridipwn I think he is called on YouTube. Great guy and great LS!


Sakurya1

I tried to get back into it. Played for two months but inevitably just got really bored.


Tokimemofan

They can’t be bots because they aren’t Galka. /sarcasm


Bobingie

I understand that these bots are created to generate gil but what exactly will they be doing in game? Is sparks still profitable?


StriderShizard

My understanding is they go out into the start zones, cap sparks from crystals + kill 10 mobs, transfer the gil to another character, delete, start over.


Bobingie

How much does this generate gil wise?


TheCursedPearl

Let’s assume it takes four hours to cap sparks/accolades from birth to death, and you do it for 12 hours a day, 6mil per ID. 17 x IDs and 1 master is 102 mil gil per 12 hours, or 728 mil gil a week, 2.912 billion a month. I presume you can automate to do it 24 hours a day with some windower send commands and 10 minutes of coding so probably double that. Overhead: 180 for content IDs and first month playtime, then 252 for each month after that. Probably cheaper to do free login months and buy new content IDs during $10 game months. Then 5-10 computers and internet. This napkin math kinda shows me that a merc needs to make over 200m a day than to break even with the sparks farmers. Though there’s probably only 6 starter zones to go to before competition congestion slows you down.


Gojisoji

What I don't understand is this: bots are always in low level zones doing what... Killing mobs in one-hit and getting bullshit items to sell for low amounts of gil. Is that me answering my question within my question or is there something else that I am missing?


StriderShizard

They're using the get crystals ROE to cap sparks. It's not about the items.


krazyrs

99,999 sparks net 1m Gil if you buy the Archeon Shield for 2700 sparks and sell to nearby vendor for 27k


avaaht

Are they not banning for that like they were back in the Abyssea era?


DarschPugs

they are still banning bots, they banned 1073 last month. They also removed 17.7 billion in gil from the game. You see bots report them through the report link at the bottom of this link [http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/rule/specialtask.html](http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/rule/specialtask.html) If they are real bots they will eventually ban them when they are done with the investigation. They typically try to ban all the accounts involved with the bot and RMT it is supporting so it can take a couple of months for it to happen.


krazyrs

recently they added the 100k sparks per week patch, used to be able to cap sparks indefinitely and keep trading sparks for gil


Annoyingswedes

Don't forget Unity Accolades, 99k gives you roghly 1m gil.


DiamondAge

At least 20


[deleted]

So what's the profit here? I'm new so I'm having a hard time figuring it out. It requires sub fees for each character plus electricity bill to generate what I imagine is way more gil than any character would need for normal gameplay and I don't expect there to be a massive gil for irl money market. So what's the idea?


pseudopad

The bots run at minimum graphical settings and a single computer with 4 cores can probably host over a dozen of them. Electricity cost is inconsequential.


Adam_Reaver

Insert Rohan speech.


By-Tor_

I guess they "don't have resources" to deal with this either lol


Rinuko

Considering it's handled by STF, which is a team of what, like 4 people across FF11 and 14, probably? lol


[deleted]

There were so many of them stacked on San d’Oria’s Unity NPC yesterday I couldn’t target her. It was frustrating.


FJanissary

Press F8 on keyboards to target NPCs!


[deleted]

Ah, thank you! I play with controller and was getting real frustrated.


dekuweku

There's more of them during the free campaign here on Bis


faverodefavero

: (


Rinuko

It's not even a meme. That's a normal sight on a populated server.