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A lesson to never AFK farm in the game. Not that it helps you now but if you make a new account, I always mute all sounds except system messages and watch netflix or something on my other monitor so I can hear if I get a message from a GM.
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TheSacredBird.
Oh wow, this is my first time hearing about a ban like this. lol better start taking more care with the game becoming more and more popular now. Perhaps they have a different way of dealing with new accounts? Well, not taking my chances.
Thanks for the info.
Rule one of using a bot: don’t AFK bot. You need to be able to respond if something happens in the game, especially being sent a message.
Miqobot is technologically safe, which is to say that SE can’t detect it running. It doesn’t touch the game memory, only looks at it – which is not detectable – and send keyboard inputs to the window, like a normal user would.
However, no bot is socially safe – that’s up to you, the user, to take care of. Avoid suspicious activities like non-stop farming, taking weird paths to move, and ignoring people around you. Those are some of the most obvious indicators of a bot.
During the MIR events like this, scrutiny on MGP farmers is much higher, because it’s a natural time for people to use bots for it. That means you need to be even more careful. I always set my AFK times to a random range and set a pre-selected random number of games to play so I don’t do exactly 100 games and then stop, just in case a GM decides to look at logs that might include that. I turn auto-AFK on with a five minute timeout so when I’m standing in front of the game, I have the AFK icon. I try to look like someone playing minigames for a little while, then leaving to do something less repetitive because minigames fry your brain if you’re actually playing them for an hour or two.
And if you’re not watching the game itself, have a way to watch your chat. The XIVChat plugin is available for the quick launcher, and the clients are $5 – desktop or android – so you can have a small monitor to watch for messages and even respond. It can even be on a different desktop machine, or your phone, so you can fullscreen netflix or something.
And if you’re not watching the game itself, have a way to watch your chat. The XIVChat plugin is available for the quick launcher, and the clients are $5 – desktop or android – so you can have a small monitor to watch for messages and even respond. It can even be on a different desktop machine, or your phone, so you can fullscreen netflix or something.
Ah nice thanks for the info!
so as long as I am watching for tells I am safe?
I usually have the mini-games set for like 30ish min with 6 or 7 min afk in between and only use it if I can check the screen every couple of minutesI have been doing it for many hours a day but not overnight and will shut down the game several times per day for real breaks
As long you bot attended and not leave it on when you afk it’s safe. I’ve been farming during the event for hours but I only stand at the mini game for 20-30 minutes max then afk. Don’t stand around at mini game for a long time as it would seem suspicious
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That’s really unusual.
When I was banned my first time, I was farming Gold Saucer for an entire weekend straight during Make It Rain, and all I got was a 3 days suspension.
I’ve also never heard about anyone ever getting insta-permabanned.
Could you give us the e-mail – for science? Would also be a good reminder for everyone to play it safe. -
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