Miners and hackingFollow

So all the people I've reported weeks ago are still going strong and today I come across one I can't even target to check out (probably a lalafell). It's appears this person was inside the rock instead of walking into it when the node was up. I don't understand how many times I have to report these cheaters until something is done. Anyone else experience this?

The guys i reported in the first week (and several times after that) are still mining their asses off on Behemoth, just outside Ul'dah. It's been a good month and i've yet to see SE care about any of these.

Same for shouters, supposedly when they get deleted their name disappears off your blacklist and is replaced by a (Deleted). So far only 3 people have disappeared off my list, with a good 90 on it already.

I can understand SE has other things to worry about, i really do, but while they turn a blind eye, these people are slowly ruining the game for a lot of us.

It bothers me that they have suspended/banned accounts of people because they have tainted gil, yet they haven't done anything about people that are actively breaking the economy with hacks and exploits.

We reported a few also, recently someone was teleporting around to the Banemite spawn locations in North Shroud and killing them. We tried to open a trade window to see if that would stop the botter, but alas someone in China was actually running the keyboard for that toon and he closed the trade window before the Banemites could kill him.. hopefully we got his attention though!

I think I am more upset about the farming bot then the mining one... even though both are killing the economy, the mining nodes are not something you need to compete for, so at least you get your own no matter what the bots do.

Any time there is a resource that is required to progress in the game (diremite webs and fleece for weavers, for example) that is only available in one particular area and can be monopolized via a claim system, it's ripe for botting and hacking. Its very profitable for the hacker actually. This is one of those terrible game design choices that was present in FFXI. I would've figured they had learned their lesson but nope. That kind of setup practically begs to be botted. The hackers know you wont be able to legit compete and that makes it so they can monopolize the resource and charge whatever they want for it.

These guys should be at the top of the ban list but it looks like SE is back to its usual MMO routine. They cant just plop a Goblin at the spawn point for this stuff like they did with FFXI's fishing spots, so it looks like it'll go on for a very long time. To me they need to change why its profitable to do this rather than just ban the offenders, but that's more wishful thinking and assumes they will actually take action.

Well, there are ways around this - like spamming the leves that need cotton rather than velveteen,
but I must admit it frustrated the hell out of me!
Diremite webs and Gigantoad skins are HUGE bottlenecks in the game and totally open to abuse!
Will SE ever learn from it's mistakes?
The miners hacking thing? whilst annoying doesn't stop my progress on miner, Farming for other classes does!

That's what I ended up doing. I've been using leves to gather up my diremite webs. I haven't even started trying for gigantoad but if it's as bad, I'll be doing the same thing on my leatherworker.

Yes I have seen pretty many lately....
SE was so worried about fishing and now all of this.....

Edited, Oct 10th 2013 12:35pm by Nashred