Damn Farming Bots -_-Follow

I definitely agree! Hands down! We all hate farming bots!

I've seen people with their names end in the alphabetic order. First I thought they were just a family who created accounts with the same name and group together to exp. I mean, at first that idea was actually cool, but after I saw what they were doing it really drove me crazy. My friend spent $150.00 to buy 1 million gil on Bismarck and he started ranting on how hard get got the money in the game and he wouldn't lend me 5k. Then one of the guy in the Linkshell simply said "Wait, didn't you buy those gil?" O_o;

I mean, what's the fun to it if you don't work your butt off to get what you want. That's the spirit of the MMORPG. I feel so proud when I was able to obtain a 25k equipment on my own. (Even though I know it will only get worse and more expensive) Please, don't kill the true spirit and belief in Final Fantasy. I really don't want to see this game go down the drench because of "Free Farmer Flood".

Just for the record, I am not against online gil farmers, I know it's their job and people tend to get lazy somehow. But I definitely don't approve them, and if we can reduce it as much as possible, the game experience will definitely improve.

Bear with me Comerade! :)

Edited, Wed Sep 22 23:29:00 2004 by Lockheart

Edited, Thu Sep 23 00:39:01 2004 by Lockheart

Interesting...so here's my question then. Is there anything they will ever be able to do about it? I mean, can't they have some sort of international rules now that SE has expanded this game to Europe, Japan, and the US? I honestly think SE doesn't give a damn cause we still pay our monthly bill whether the gilfarmers are on or not.

-Zero

It stinks because of the competition. It's bad enough that you when you have to compete with legitimate players over the same resources. But when you have to compete with a gil farmer it really sucks. They arn't using that money to get themselves cool new equipment, they are just selling it to people who are to lazy to do the work for themselves.

It really ticks me off when I have my mining points stolen by a gil farmer, they have no consideration or manners as it is not in thier interest to share. They are only interested in the bottom line and so don't care about being nice or anything they just take take take. At least with most other miners they are considerate enough not to steal my points as I do not steal theirs. Plus real players are worried about thier reputation..well if they aren't a asshat they are. However these gil farmers really don't care..they just **** people off all the time..it's ok for them as long as they make thier gil quota for the day.

As far as feeling some form of sympathy for these people who are being forced to play I do have some. But for the Bosses of these people I have none...they cater to the most undesirable traits of players...that being lazyness and impatience.

Edited, Thu Sep 23 05:03:17 2004 by starko

LOL, notice how conflict arises in the game just like in RL. I will join you in the gil farmer stopping once I am a high enough level to take on a NM.

I could go into detail about the tactics used by these guys in various areas that I have witnessed first hand, but I'm sure it would just be a rehash of the same stuff we've been seeing.

Calling a GM is good, but rarely results in any action taken since these guys are not technically breaking any rules. If they train mobs in on you, then you should call a GM immediately and site a violation of the harassment clause in the User Agreement and demand that action be taken against the guilty party. Screenshots are probably a must and repeated violations will probably have to occur to make any accusations stick. The measure that I took was to go to this (https://secure.playonline.com/supportus/index.html) URL and submit a comment/suggestion expressing my distaste of the gilfarmers and that it would eventually drive people away from the game. One submission will never even get noticed, but if lots of people went and did this, perhaps it would, one day, get some attention.

Beyond that, the only thing to do is get parties or alliances to go camp the same mobs they do and steal them. Since we don't play in shifts like they do (24/7), this is virtually impossible. We can only hope to slow them down this way, it probably won't stop them. If any gil-breaker partys form up, post it somewhere so I can come too. Nothing makes me happier than claiming a mob out from under them (except maybe getting the drop from it).

edit: alla doesn't seem to handle https in the link tag. I'll just stick the url in for copy/paste.



Edited, Thu Sep 23 13:26:29 2004 by Idwa

i saw the redapple bots or atleast 3 of them in lower jeuno today (3:30ish AM EST) but anyhow, they were talking to "Zooejlwsa" or atleast doing emotions that you'd see in a conversation. and he was occationally laughing out loud.

now the zoo's are another group of gilfarms...as most know. only reason i'm pointing out what i saw was who ever owns zoo's speaks english, and also i'm willing to assume they could be controlled by the same person.