Urat is a Fishbotting Fuck

[Alberic]

tl;dr version: Urat, self-proclaimed King of Fishing with his Ebisu Rod and his Fishing Guides on FFXI Wiki, is a total fishbotting cheater!

I'm a late-night fisher usually, so I was just settling down to head out myself when I heard from a friend that Urat was openly botting in Davoi. I went out to check it out, and there he was, fishing up Takitaros and "regretfully releasing."

My friend (who has Timestamp) said he'd been releasing them since 2:29 a.m. EST. It's over an hour later, and he's still doing it as I type this. He hasn't responded to any tells that either of us have sent him.

Other blatant fishbotting behavior: Takitaro are skill 100 legendaries, and he fishes them up in five to ten seconds--any high-level fisherman can tell you, even with skill 100 you don't fish up any legendary that fast. We've counted over 20 takitaro lost so far.

Given the vast preponderance of the evidence, I hope you enjoy that banned Ebisu rod Urat!

 

[bootz]

Oh snap!

 

[Dejavu]

this could be interesting...

 

[Acks]

BUSTED!

 

[Tagrineth]

I like Bootz being the first reply, with that epic avatar.

 

[Shale]

Jeiger isn't going to be happy about this - He's sporting our linkpearl in that shot..

 

[Alberic]

Update! Just talked to a GM. As you can see from the screenie, Urat's just been fishin' them up and lettin' them go this whole time:

It probably seems like I'm a bit overzealous in flaming this guy, but it really pisses me off that someone who purports to be an expert at this craft is cheating his way to the top >.> If it were just an RMT, I'd be disgusted but I'd ignore it. But someone who has an Ebisu, who writes guides and brags about his accomplishments in fishing? It's like all those guys using steroids in baseball.

People who do fishing at all seriously know how much work it is, and it's an extremely time-heavy craftskill to make up for the fact that you're not risking materials with every synth. So a fishbot even if it's just for skilling takes all of the "work" out of it. The sad thing is, because he's using a bot, he's way outfishing my friend who is only a few skill levels lower.

Hopefully he gets stuck in Gaol soon though :biggrin:

 

[Tagrineth]

That's a new GM name. o_o never seen it before

 

[Mansin]

This just in: GMs don't do anything

This also just in: No one cares. At all.

 

[Mansin]

I mean really, fishbotting?

 

[Tagrineth]

It's not so much the fact that he was fishbotting so much as the fact that he takes such pride in his fishing, shows off his Ebisu rod, makes fishing guides, etc. and turns out that despite all that, he stoops this low after all.

 

[Alberic]

Urat's fishing guide is on the Wiki here.

It's not so much that fishbotting is srs bzns, but that this is hypocrisy of the finest sort from Urat given how much he brags on his fishing. Not that this is the first time Urat's been proven a complete moron, he's all over the FB for it, but I don't think anyone knew he was out-and-out cheating for what little prestige he has.

 

[Tristam Green]

Wow. And he was always such a little white knight against any Linkshell who bots.

Using bootz's flowchart, it is without a doubt that someone got told.

 

[Uzor]

This just in: GMs don't do anything

This also just in: No one cares. At all.

Because "This is under investigation" equals "I'm not gonna do anything"...

 

[Dancingweapon]

News just in, Urat's chocobo was caught flee hacking.

Seems he's not as good as he thinks :/

 

[mdkuser]

lol wow... I was really mad that he got ebisu of my very fishes I put on the AH, well I can't really complain about that, idiots buying them off the AH are good ways to make $$. Although its sucks noobs get them r/e items from gutting sooo fast, if they had my fucking luck they'd have to buy hundreds before getting their rewards.



Its very fun though, that he apprently got the Ebisu before getting the fishing level requires to catch Liks and gugrusaurus ( you need the lv 78 key item from the guild...). He probably can't catch them w/o cheats lmao. Takitoros are fucking beasts, they are an enhanced version of Ryuugu titan if I recall. It's not possible to fish them w/o both rings... the only time I tried to catch them for GP guild, I had a real hard time @ 90 skill with both rings... They sell for 2k+ to NPC he must be making real monney if this is true...

 

[Snowballx]

Mmm. I understand where your coming from where you said he
made those guides but he is pretty much botting the fish.

 

[Alberic]

Its very fun though, that he apprently got the Ebisu before getting the fishing level requires to catch Liks and gugrusaurus ( you need the lv 78 key item from the guild...). He probably can't catch them w/o cheats lmao. Takitoros are fucking beasts, they are an enhanced version of Ryuugu titan if I recall. It's not possible to fish them w/o both rings... the only time I tried to catch them for GP guild, I had a real hard time @ 90 skill with both rings... They sell for 2k+ to NPC he must be making real monney if this is true...

Takitaro are only 700G to an NPC now, but he's probably fishing them up because they're this month's fish ranking item, that's why my friend and I were out there originally. Still, I counted how long it was taking him to take one all the way down and it was about five seconds! I had to use both rings to get mine down and they're not easy to pull in x.x

 

[Lucki]

Can't wait to hear his response....

 

[pchan]

GM don't do anything with bot, they send reports to the stf. If you want to do ban him, send a report to the stf with the time at which it occured, the exact location/zone and what you saw in chatlog so they can easily find him. It works with mine bots.