[rypal1]

got email saying banned for botting and cheating
been only doing wp farming

[Cichard]

how many bots.. did you sell gil from those accounts or did you filter it to another account. Did you trade large amounts of gil. How long have you been TP farming WP. Are you archers or Bards.

[random73]

The other day I saw many BRDs disappear and show up again in like 10 mins near a mailbox many times. It was so obvious that screams botting to the whole server

[ChaotikSoul]

Not botting in an inn or anywhere out of site is stupid and deserves a ban.
Only thing I can think of for rypal1's ban is either a) someone knew he bots and had chat log evidence (reported)
b) he has been seen botting in public (reported)
c) logged in 24 hours a day with all characters on ONE service account

Other than this i don't see how. I dont know anyone who (legitimately) only farms WP ONLY being banned. There has to be a chink in the armour somewhere, a reason for them to have looked into your play history.

[db00]

I just lost a team. :( My toons were hidden out of map in some areas. I've been botting WP for the last 2 weeks. (2 days ago I added 4 gamecards after their trial expired) :(

"We are writing to inform you that we have suspended the FINAL FANTASY XIV service account registered to this e-mail because on 3/11/2014 you breached the FINAL FANTASY XIV User Agreement.

We have confirmed that you have violated the following rules and agreements upon an investigation.

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SQUARE ENIX ACCOUNT TERMS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY
1. Registered Users
Use of the Website or Services is limited to those satisfying the following conditions:
(b) You represent and warrant that all registration information is truthful and accurate and that you will maintain the accuracy of such information;

FINAL FANTASYR XIV User Agreement
2.1 Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorised software designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay."

[ChaotikSoul]

Hmmmm, have you done anything other than WP ?
Thing is with hiding out of the map you are still detectable to alot of people. Always bot in an Inn.

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Also, if you are in an FC and many notice that your online 24 hours a day ALWAYS in a duty, its abit obvious. And enough report you, they will investigate and see what you have been upto.

[db00]

I moved from inn when that reddit thing appeared (a player had a conversation with a gm, on how to track inn duty farmers)
No FC on either of those toons. No linkshell. Just wp

[random73]

Do they all have similar names ? names that are clearly not really players ? Are all your 4 characters "hidden" around the same area ?


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...-my-search

Like that....begging for bans

[Cichard]

the thing is here people cant report you if you are in an inn. Or FC house. Having characters anywhere in the world still will get you found by someone, and reproted. Best thing to do is make an FC while you are leveling thsi will get you many FC points. doing the main story quest will get you lots of points so will class questss. Hit rank 6 buy a small house and bot from your FC house. Un FC'ed characters are more suspisious then FC characters. So make your own. GM conversation the GM was apeasing the person he was talking to. They dont want to waste the man power searching every instances of inn on every server in every city then to monitor those different people while in WP. also job quest is great dont be an Archer be a Bard. Thats always helpfull to. most players are looking for Archer with similar names or random names in the inn or out in the world.

1) always duty farm from Inn/FC house cannot be reported by players
2) Always be in an FC(Create your own)
3) Always filter money in to your FC chest sell it from a non botting account
4) Always complete Job Quest
5) Do not talk about botting in game
6) Try not to sell more then 10mil gil at a time
7) Dont use Random names use names people would use if legit playing

Its all i can think of for now.

[mookastic]

Take the extra step and unlock bard, it's really obvious that someone with a lv50 ARCHER and nothing else unlocked is just botting somewhere.
If you unlock bard your character won't show up when smartasses like the guy from that reddit/forum post look for lv50 archers, your characters will be hiding in the sea of shitty bards from your server.