Refia1 said: »
ok and maybe u can answer this, how can they determine u are botting if u aren't sent a tell or to jail or a chat box? Since the bans are delayed, how can a GM know if a player is legit or not if they make no attempt for communication?
If you were kicked from the game without going through jail, it may be a GM if he deemed you afk, or a US GM who made you exit jail after issuing a punishment. US GMs have a different flow from other regions when it comes to issuing the punishment.
If you get teleported or talked to/sent boxes in game, then that's a GM.
leo said: »
Open your game files and look the temp folder (in my case it's "C:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\TEMP" and inside there's plenty of xxx.log files.
Those are your text logs. Combined with those, the GM has server logs which tell them who were at a certain place at a certain time.
They can download logs from your computer or any other player at the zone at any time.
Plugins echoing stuff or adding custom timestamps to those logs will leave "fingerprints" and if a GM download your logs will know you have "plugins" running on your game. (read "plugins" as 3rd party stuff)
Those are your text logs. Combined with those, the GM has server logs which tell them who were at a certain place at a certain time.
They can download logs from your computer or any other player at the zone at any time.
Plugins echoing stuff or adding custom timestamps to those logs will leave "fingerprints" and if a GM download your logs will know you have "plugins" running on your game. (read "plugins" as 3rd party stuff)
There are many ways to know if a player cheat, people have to understand that if you use a really bad cheat/exploit and aren't dealt with, you're either too small of a fish or your punishment is pending investigation results (as in, delayed).