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This definitely falls into the category of "problems with the game, not problems with players." There's literally no way to differentiate between the gameplay a bot experiences and the gameplay a human experiences with the crafting system the way it is; it's why I'm waiting until 2.0 at -least- to get back into crafting.
If you band people for using the turbo button on controller you should ban others for just spamming enter. Then you'd ban probably 90% of crafters. I'd say ban people with obvious rmt names in suspicious gear and such, but i don't know anyone with a craft that doesn't at least have some sort of crafting gear they upgrade even if they do just press enter or use turbo. I don't press enter all the time, but most of the time for just leveling I am ^^ Difference between that and Turbo? Spamming enter while watching tv you still have to probably add carpal tunnel mileage to your good old body, but turbo you wouldn't.
So sit back chill, press enter or turbo and watch some anime on tv, might get you out of the mud a little.
If you use a specific third party program to bot (you can tell a lot of them revolved around hasty hand), you should be banned.
you can call a GM... i've gotten ahold a a senior GM several times and even got Lord Nemo on Saronia suspended for 24hour for MPKing, the GM's are watching and are out there you just gotta be smart in getting ahold of them.
in order to ban someone they have channels they must go through,
1st they have to have multiple reports of this people being accused
2nd they must try to make contact with the player
3rd during contact if the player is non responsive after 15mins then it is considered confirmed to be afk. If the player is doing actions while this is happening then its considered to be simulated game play (botting) and one 1st offense is a 7day suspension. 2nd offense is a ban of that character.
all you can do is send in a report to the GM call in game, wait for a reply, then reply to that reply and wait for a reply then keep replying as they reply to you after 4-5 times a SGM will contact you and solve the matter.
heres the image of SGM on Saronia with a player in GM jail to prove that this is possible (also i'm quite proud of being the cause of this haha) http://i55.tinypic.com/2zdyxz7.jpg