27,000+ Accounts Banned This Week

[Drakhon]

That is another negative of periodic large-scale bans instead of constant small-scale bans - after each one, those common items that are made cheap by bots are suddenly in much shorter supply. This will immediately result in higher prices and shortages for these items but it takes much longer for deflation on the rarer items due to a decreasing money supply to occur. By the time you would see the deflation, the bots are pretty much back in full swing because, as Gisli said, it doesn't take long for them to level some more bots up and they'll be willing to do it if they get close to a month out of each one.

[Kelan]

Yeah.. it makes you wonder how long it would take them to level up someone. It seems like it would take a month to get to the 30s, but ya never know I guess. Maybe they level faster than I think.

Either way, I would think monthly bans would hurt them pretty bad as the high level loot items sell really well, even to vendors.

[Warseth]

To hit level 30 will not take a month....I estimate in 3 days they can be 30 if not maybe 4. That is with those very good bot programs. The ones that run you around with no waypoints and grind..automatically return to the area you farm in if death happens.

The money I make on my SM at 30 was huge in comparison to same amount of hours grinding at 42. I can make more in one night than in 2-3 days with same hours on my Glad.

If you have not noticed, most bots sit around level 30-35 for that reason. They get rid of them and roll new ones usually because the money made drops after 35. I believe they keep a few in the higher levels to get the higher level mats...and it is probably those Chanter/Assasin Duo's that you see farming. They don't want to level fast...so being paired up and never stopping they can farm more mobs for that level to sell Kinah.


As for GM physical monitoring: Yes I do not believe they have a presence or hardly one at all. FFXI GM's spot checked people by sending a tell. As you afk grinded...if you did not respond to several requests...you were suspended....they gave you 3 strikes till you were perma banned. Each strike was longer suspensions... That is what I mean by Physically checking. THey could nail so many bots with this.

I know that there is hardly to no presence..personal someone I know who does auto grind for themselves not to sell kinah...Has monitored autogrind while watching TV for weeks now....NOT once did a GM send a tell to them.

They have to *GM* distinguish between some nut who is grinding for hours and some bot by physically checking or having a program to check if they are running a 3rd party program. Well no game guard = no 3rd party scanner. So the only option to make sure they don't falsely ban is to physically check...well weeks of monitored botting shows they are not even doing that. If they are , it's not been done yet to this person.

I wonder if GM's even are on our servers at all. They may just be sitting in some cubicle reading Forums tickets only vs in game (oh by the way that in game ticket system is still not in place = no gms in game then).

Like said before....ONE Gm can stroll through the city and towns to see the RMT advertisers and ban them easily if they were present....as you noticed...those STore signs are still up and common around all brokers.

More evidence showing a NON GM in game presence.....

[Drakhon]

Another 26,000 banned today.

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[Broggle]

oh great at the blistering pace i'm levelling .......i'll probably get falsely accused of botting ....rofl ok my job of lightening up this post is done

[Narg]

One of our guildies was banned. However, justifyable so. He had massive Macro programs. Would take his toons to "lake" areas and roll a Macro program and just kill over and over again, while he was afk. Said it took him 3 days to get his toons up to 30.

Needless to say tho. He is gone.