Comment They arn't even NM, and they cheat! (Score 1) 110
I play FFXI currently and on my server, Bismarck, the gil sellers camp Stroper Chyme and the Ooze. Both are NOT Notorious monsters. They are normal monsters that spawn on a set interval over many spots., but rarely drop items of worth. Stroper has 2 spawn spots while the Ooze has about 3-4.
What's disturbing is when you check the auction house and see 1 item worth 600,000 gil sold by 1 person for the whole history. They keep an artifical price hike on the item. When I started this item was around 250k. Since then it's sky rocked. The item which is crafted from this item has sky rocked too.
Also, these gil sellers have been known to cheat. Every NPC, item, and monster are stored in DAT files on a users hard drive. 1 file is 1 monster etc. These gill sellers will remove all the DAT files but their intended prey so they see nothing but this monster. The way the target system works, if you just spam an ability to claim a monster, it try's to claim what ever is closest. It's impossible to pull the wrong mob when you see nothing but the Stroper. So if someone pulls in 5 bats, they don't even see them! This is against the TOS, and is something that needs to be addressed in a game patch. Not only do gil sellers use this tactic, some linkshells use this tactic to claim HNM/NMs.
It's about 6 to 7 in characters which camp a spot 24/7. And it's usually more then 1 person who takes turns playing each character.
What's disturbing is when you check the auction house and see 1 item worth 600,000 gil sold by 1 person for the whole history. They keep an artifical price hike on the item. When I started this item was around 250k. Since then it's sky rocked. The item which is crafted from this item has sky rocked too.
Also, these gil sellers have been known to cheat. Every NPC, item, and monster are stored in DAT files on a users hard drive. 1 file is 1 monster etc. These gill sellers will remove all the DAT files but their intended prey so they see nothing but this monster. The way the target system works, if you just spam an ability to claim a monster, it try's to claim what ever is closest. It's impossible to pull the wrong mob when you see nothing but the Stroper. So if someone pulls in 5 bats, they don't even see them! This is against the TOS, and is something that needs to be addressed in a game patch. Not only do gil sellers use this tactic, some linkshells use this tactic to claim HNM/NMs.
It's about 6 to 7 in characters which camp a spot 24/7. And it's usually more then 1 person who takes turns playing each character.
