Many people cheating, automated bot to farm drops to synth spheres for Escutcheon

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...my-econ-health

The internal menus and interface of FFXI itself needs to be reformed, upgraded and evolved to deter prohibited behavior and RMT profiteering. Gil is being used as a medium for corruption and the linked proposal will at the minimum allow SE to arbitrate player to player commerce with a NPC mediated exchange. Post questions for further explanation if the entire proposal seems confusing, I will clarify.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

My advice is transfer servers. Selling job points, among other things, is practically unheard of over here.

What good is a bigger community if it's controlled by bots?

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So the solution is to keep running away from BOTTERS instead of SE enforcing the RULES THAT THEY MADE?

RULES/LAWS only work if people follow them and are enforced, the people that would consider using bots need to have fear that all their work will be for nothing, that is only way that the rules have any meaning.

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Originally Posted by VoiceMemo

So the solution is to keep running away from BOTTERS instead of SE enforcing the RULES THAT THEY MADE?

RULES/LAWS only work if people follow them and are enforced, the people that would consider using bots need to have fear that all their work will be for nothing, that is only way that the rules have any meaning.

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No, that's not what I'm suggesting, because that certainly needs to happen, but it's an endless battle and RMT will always find ways of circumventing whatever measures SE comes up with. All I'm telling you is the problems you speak of are a rarity on basically every server except asura. Not nonexistent, but much less of an issue. It's also possible that this fact is clouding SE's perception of how bad the problem is on Asura.

If the population of the servers was more even, all players would be getting affected at a more similar rate and then SE might have a more accurate picture. (And I don't feel like a merge has to happen for that, because the game is perfectly playable on these other servers)