PLEASE BAN FARM BOTS!

These people who farm materials with bots are KILLING the economy of the game. Shards use to vary between 40-60 gil each depending on market needs and supply. Now they are down to 15 gil each? One person has sold 3000 shards at 15-18 gil each 16 times in past 3 days. That is 48,000 shards. I've seen people outside Ul'Dah running in circles mining to farm shards non-stop for several days straight. They don't respond to messages either.

Luckily I did not go route of Disciple of the Land to make gil, but those who did say they cannot make any substantial profit. As a Weaver I can pop off a HQ craft in 20 seconds that costs 3k in materials and sell for 22k. Miners I know say it takes them an HOUR to make 5k gil. Meanwhile these farm botters run multiple characters with no gear farming for shards, make hundreds of thousands of gil per day and then sell their gil for $.

Something really needs to be done about this.

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Originally Posted by KupoNut

As a Weaver I can pop off a HQ craft in 20 seconds that costs 3k in materials and sell for 22k.

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With price-gouging like that I wish there were Weaver bots as well.

First off, I do agree with the part where bots need to be taken care of sooner rather than later.
But I also know that the Taskforce is working as hard as they can, just report them on every meeting, never stop reporting them.

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Originally Posted by KupoNut

Miners I know say it takes them an HOUR to make 5k gil.

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This one has me confused though, while I am not aware of Goblin's economy I am left wondering if these people are actually mining for the right materials.
While I am not swinging in millions per hour I must say I am making quite a good buck from DoL, which includes mining.

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Originally Posted by Shirai

This one has me confused though, while I am not aware of Goblin's economy I am left wondering if these people are actually mining for the right materials.
While I am not swinging in millions per hour I must say I am making quite a good buck from DoL, which includes mining.

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There are about 100-200 shard lots for sale of each shards. They are down to around 15 gil each. Things like metal ore are over flooded too, they are very cheap as well. Everything listed under stone on the market place is much cheaper than it was on my previous server.

I use to mine mythril ore on Balmung until the market was flooded, use to sell for 80-90 gil a piece and dropped down to 30 gil a piece

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