Massive banhammer wave

[Skateb3060Participant]

Alright so I found an article released recently:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fantasy-xiv/ban-wave

And I was wondering if any of our sisters and brothers were lost. I sincerely hope not. As we speak I’m farming mgp for the cactaur mount, so I know I’m safe.

Did we lose anyone from this wave or previous waves? If so I was hoping this could be a thread to share your lessons. What you think got you caught, and what we could learn from it.

Edit: To be clear I know theres a couple of threads with helpful tips from people who have never been caught. I was hoping for more of a Lessons Learned type thread.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by  Skateb3060.

[LyfoxParticipant]

Those are just throwaway accounts. Its roughly the same amount every week. Nothing new really.

Aug. 1: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/0f49c182b605a7da92f02a907fb5e217abc55e4e
Jul. 25: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/215fe2f44422be634a33a31e639584451d4c734a
Jul. 18: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/a5b1dfd29235825413f4cc84900521ff803752e4
Jul. 11: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/0cde8dc876c0a67519b1b2ce010af9048526a74d

[Skateb3060Participant]

Suppose that’s fair. only 28 out of over 10k were actually for botting. I didn’t see the actual numbers.

[pyro401Participant]

Botting is relatively safe if you are not involved in RMT. Just pay attention and try and do it safely.

[snake8503Participant]

I got hit. Fighting it now.

[OtakugenerationzParticipant]

What got you banned, snake8503?

[Dark DesireParticipant]

What’s wrong? Snake? SNAAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEE

[snake8503Participant]

RAAAA RAAAA shhhh GAME OVER! What got me banned was the Maelstorm Scenario. I think it went too quickly turning in things. I’m using Unbanster.com to help out (they have great reviews) and luckily I was using a VPN (so I wouldn’t get disconnected). Causes some plausible deniability. We’ll see how it goes though. It was my main account too 🙁

[LutBotParticipant]

snake8503 wrote:

RAAAA RAAAA shhhh GAME OVER! What got me banned was the Maelstorm Scenario. I think it went too quickly turning in things. I’m using Unbanster.com to help out (they have great reviews) and luckily I was using a VPN (so I wouldn’t get disconnected). Causes some plausible deniability. We’ll see how it goes though. It was my main account too 🙁

Lol I ran the Snakes scenario for like a full week pretty much non-stop during the moogle treasure hunt event… not even a warning. Are you sure you werent being an a-hole to others online? Miqo’s activity is pretty hard to detect.

[snake8503Participant]

I barely talk to anyone outside friends or FC while I’m not botting. I make it a point to be polite and be totally stealthy when I do bot. Hell I’m even pretty thick skinned when it comes to a-holes and just ignore them. Never said anything back to anyone no matter how terrible (I work in a prison so it’s nothing to me).

I’ll fight it though until I get it back. I’m confident I will.

[LutBotParticipant]

snake8503 wrote:

I barely talk to anyone outside friends or FC while I’m not botting. I make it a point to be polite and be totally stealthy when I do bot. Hell I’m even pretty thick skinned when it comes to a-holes and just ignore them. Never said anything back to anyone no matter how terrible (I work in a prison so it’s nothing to me).

I’ll fight it though until I get it back. I’m confident I will.

Oof well that sucks! Hope you get your account back soon, I’d be pretty upset if I lose my main account Lol.

[snake8503Participant]

Oh I definitely am! Miqobot’s team allows me to stay competitive cause of my work schedule. They are godsent to me.

[GraySpectator]

snake8503 wrote:

RAAAA RAAAA shhhh GAME OVER! What got me banned was the Maelstorm Scenario.

Did you run it 24/7? Did you sell any gil?

I mean, I’ve sold more than 300 mil gil so far, and I wasn’t hit, not even a warning (knock-knock). But then again, I never run a single account for more than 12 hours a day.

[ExarchCoercerParticipant]

Doesn’t make any sense the first offense is a warning and a 10 day suspension. The next offense is a perma-ban. You pretty have to be reported by someone for the GMs to look at you. I’ve had throwaway accounts running nearly 24/7 for months at a time and not be banned.

[ArcModerator]

ExarchCoercer wrote:

Doesn’t make any sense the first offense is a warning and a 10 day suspension. The next offense is a perma-ban. You pretty have to be reported by someone for the GMs to look at you. I’ve had throwaway accounts running nearly 24/7 for months at a time and not be banned.

This is absolutely false in every way.

1. The order is not Warning + 10 Day Suspension -> Permaban. There are 6 Steps of account penalty:
Caution -> Warning -> 3 Days Ban -> 10 Days Ban -> 20 Days Ban -> Permaban
They even have it written officially in their official account penalty policy on the Square Enix website:
https://support.na.square-enix.com/faqarticle.php?kid=68098&id=5382&la=1

2. GMs are extremely flexible, when it comes to issueing bans. I for instance got a 3 Days Ban, back during the Make it Rain Event before Stormblood was released for farming MGP for 7 days straight while I was on vacation (never even had a caution or warning before).
Then about a year later, when the Ungarmax banwave struck, I got hit with another 3 Days Ban (because I used Ungarmax 3 times in one Savage fight we already cleared that week for the lulz), instead of a 10 Days Ban or anything higher.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by  Arc.

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