Gil farmers on LakshmiFollow

Last night while partying in Korrolaka tunnel I found the gil farmers levelling up.

Here is the party description:

5 Warriors
1 WHM

All the warriors were wielding Polearms. All had the same equip except for one small difference; every party member (well the wars) had a piece of +1 equip. i.e. One had +1 armor one had +1 legs one had +1 boots.

They were fighting clippers in the tunnel (not really bothering me, my party was fighting worms)

There is one person who wasnt /anon a lvl 25 War of the group who would talk to me somewhat erratically asking if I was NA or JP. Wasnt harassing or anything seemed nice claimed to be multiboxing.

I asked are you multiboxing using 6 computers?
Answer: Yes I play 6 chars

I dont think they are bots ( a simple macro can make all the wars attack) But expect them in Delkfutt as Dragoons sometimes in the month. They seemed to level pretty fast too.

I just need a place to host the screenshots of such a feat. (yes im on the pictures...) If anyone is interested please reply.

Their names are on the picture. The crab got owned, no questions asked.

That guy has too much money and time on his hands. 6 POLID's 6 computers, no wife, no kids, no life lol

Yeah, someone in my LS was telling me about them running around. He said they didn't have sub jobs, and were all levelling toward 30, to get DRG, and then spend all of thier time in Delkfutts.

Funny... he said they were in Korraloka...
And the guy in my LS was... SHYKRE!!

(Run away!)

hmm ... I didn't get them yet. :)

You could also put them here:
http://www.photobucket.com/

I've never used the site but I've noticed a lot of Allakhazam users do.

Edited, Wed Aug 18 13:08:07 2004 by Subarru

Here's the photos that Shykre sent me:

http://members.aol.com/subarru/ffxi/photos/gilfarmers/

Confirmed Gil sellers

Kofte DRG
Guanyu WHM
(always farm delkfutts tower.)

Kinewang RDM
Longko DRG
(ZiTah-Ordelles)

Please /slap these dousche bags when u see them, because they are the main reason Certain AH items (Acquired in these areas) have plumited in price and causing poverty among others who farm for armor and spells and such.

I dont know if its against POL's TOS but i think it is morally wrong and a GM needs to stop this.

Next time you log in, do a /sea all Valkurm, Qufim or Pashhow. Tell me how many level 22+ subless, Rank 1 San d'Orians you see.

Our server IS infected by the Zooe's, but there's a party in Qufim with distinctly Chinese names, as well as Valkurm.

I also apologize to anyone who was hurt, maimed or otherwise traumatized at my sadistic attempts in breaking their morale.

Seven giants, four Wights and two banshees to the zone where they were camping wasn't pretty.

Hahaha its getting modern.

I saw another 1 mage 5 anon-polearm-guys in qufim Island.

I saw another pt of them in Ordelles cave one in Valkrum.

Our server is getting more and more of those people. ><

I uploaded a few more pics (gilfarmer04-06)

http://members.aol.com/subarru/ffxi/photos/gilfarmers/

Thanks, but I really don't think what I did was exactly honorable. Nor was it nessassary. Also, I do not condone this behavior. I strongly advise NOT training mobs, because innocent bystanders DO get in the way, and dileberatly training mobs onto other players is in direct violation of the ToS. But I do believe that if they are, in fact, gil farmers, it's for the good of the server. Two wrongs may not make a right, but I guess you can say we're justified in doing so.

Roselover, Roseenvoy, and others, are friends, but not gil farmers, to my knowledge.
One evening I was playing Guardian of the Khazam gate zone against stray goblins; Roeselover was there.
She seemed a little aimless, I was not really sure what she was doing. She was /anon, but her equipment clearly showed that she wasnt standing around hoping to level in that particular area.
On the other hand, she just kind of wandered around, een putting on her seek flag, but remaining anonymous. She did it a couple times. I pointed out to her that she still has /anon on, but she just smiled and nodded.

She healed me sometimes while I was beating down the goblins, and I struck up a conversation with her.
She's very friendly, though I still never actually figured out what she was doing there at the time, other than being bored like me.
I think she has a similar sense of humor to mine (i.e., one that leaves most other people just scratching their heads).

As far as I can tell, she and her friends are perfectly normal players, just that they have chosen names for their characters that are based on a similar word (like the famous Taru "-bean" linkshell).





I know what you're saying, but its still a flawed argument.
The bots are "illegal" because they are not allowed.
As soon as you allow them, there are no longer "illegal tools".

If we made crime legal, then we wouldn't have people breaking the law anymore.



Edited, Fri Aug 27 18:02:50 2004 by Tenmiles

I think I can vouch for Roselover. She (or one of the Roses I saw) raised me and the PLD I was partying with about a week ago in the Canyon. There was another Rose* with her - warrior or PLD I don't remember. I doubt a gil farmer would cross half a zone to raise you. :)

While I was /searching for players around my lvl the other week, I noticed 4 DRG/WARs, around lvl 45, ptying in Yuhtunga Jungle. "Oh, look, a bunch of DRGs decided to get together and do some community service!"

At this point, I'm guessing they were lvling on some T or VT mobs there. I saw this group in Crawler's Nest this past week, with the 4 DRGs at lvl 48, and they were lvling on Soldiers and Hornflies. The 4 DRGs all seemed rather "stiff", but they also had the help of 2 Tarus mages nearby who would help them during battle.

I happened to be LFGing at the time, so I had my seeking flag up. When I came near this group, I received an invite (no /tells, just an invite) from one of the Tarus. I was a bit curious at what he wanted, so I accepted. When I joined, the Taru didn't say anything, but then proceeded to request a trade. I went into the trade screen, and noticed absolutely nothing happening. So after a few seconds, I quit the trade. I immediately get another trade request. So I decide to disband and put my seeking flag back up... and I get an invite from the Taru again! Could this have been a Teleport bot? I kinda wished I had traded him 1 gil, just to see what would happen. Maybe I would have ended up in Tahrongi.

Those 4 DRGs have now hit lvl 50. And they appear to be in farming mode. Usually, 1 of them is in Beadeaux, another 1 in Delkfutt (and so is the invite-happy Taru), another in Sauromugue, and the last one in Batallia.

Hmmm... maybe Genkai 1 will be a sufficiently difficult barrier for these gil merchants.