is SE duping Crystals?

if you reported it to a GM, they have zero power to do anything.

if you reported it to the STF (4 person team in Japan) they will file it in a special folder.

documented bot crafter/retainer combos selling across data centers have been reported ad nauseum and yet, they are still around happily collecting gil to sell

is it cheating? yes
is it against the ToS? yes
is it generating gil for RMT? yes

is SE doing much about it? no.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

It's mostly the "on every single Chaos server" part that makes it rather suspicious.

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Indeed, on every world on an entire Chaos datacentre, retainer named Roktaini is dumping tens of thousands Wind crystals. I have made further discoveries. Not long ago, this botter tried to sell his motherlode all at once, so I kept undercutting him, until he would just buy my stacks. I'm 100% sure it's him since my stacks were bought out the instant I put them in 1gil cheaper after about an hour of baiting him to lower the price while I watched the item using the "compare price" on my other retainers (I got 10, all farming crystals as long as I'm online), and whacked a stack one after another 1 gil under his as he was trying to get under my other retainers. In the end, he thought he MUST sell his stuff NOW, so he put them ridiculously cheap, but I still undercut him xD At which point he bought my stuff the moment I put them on. Turns out, it's a level 16 sprout character. Not sure how's the naming and shaming on these forums, so lets just keep it at that. Surprise surprise! It's probably just a relay, collecting on behalf of an entire botter army. How does SE lets this stand is beyond me...