Crafting Fuel and Anti-RMT suggestion

I have been pondering a way to possibly fix some of the "rampant hacking" thats been going on lately, namely with bots teleporting underground to endlessly farm shards/crystals.

The idea is very simple, make shards and crystals a vendor item.

Leave them on nodes so people can gather them, but make them available from vendors, for a relatively low price.
Lets say 25 gil per shard and 100 per crystal, well below typical market prices.

With shards and crystals being readily available from vendors at a set price, the bot based fuel market will be hard capped, and crafters will not have to spend hell knows how long gathering shards, or running around trying to farm Moraines. Granted those will still be viable options and Moraines will be cheaper in the long run than buying crystals... But it is an option nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by Kenji1134

I have been pondering a way to possibly fix some of the "rampant hacking" thats been going on lately, namely with bots teleporting underground to endlessly farm shards/crystals.

The idea is very simple, make shards and crystals a vendor item.

Leave them on nodes so people can gather them, but make them available from vendors, for a relatively low price.
Lets say 25 gil per shard and 100 per crystal, well below typical market prices.

With shards and crystals being readily available from vendors at a set price, the bot based fuel market will be hard capped, and crafters will not have to spend hell knows how long gathering shards, or running around trying to farm Moraines. Granted those will still be viable options and Moraines will be cheaper in the long run than buying crystals... But it is an option nonetheless.

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I'd like cheap shard but... Gatherer's gonna mad because it's part of how they get money lol.

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Originally Posted by Eul

I'd like cheap shard but... Gatherer's gonna mad because it's part of how they get money lol.

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It's also one of the most efficient ways of "smuggling" more gil through the server transfer than you can normally take. I was able to recover about 75% of the gil I was carrying at the time I transferred. I'm not a crafter so losing 15 million to transfer would be a big hit.

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Originally Posted by Kenji1134

I have been pondering a way to possibly fix some of the "rampant hacking" thats been going on lately, namely with bots teleporting underground to endlessly farm shards/crystals.

The idea is very simple, make shards and crystals a vendor item.

Leave them on nodes so people can gather them, but make them available from vendors, for a relatively low price.
Lets say 25 gil per shard and 100 per crystal, well below typical market prices.

With shards and crystals being readily available from vendors at a set price, the bot based fuel market will be hard capped, and crafters will not have to spend hell knows how long gathering shards, or running around trying to farm Moraines. Granted those will still be viable options and Moraines will be cheaper in the long run than buying crystals... But it is an option nonetheless.

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So make it hard for legitimate players just to stop the bots for an evening. Such stupidity.

Why do bots farm shards, because at the time it's the easiest thing to do. If it wasn't the easiest then it would be something else they farm.

The best way to combat botting is to report people you know buy gil. If there's no market there's no need for a supply.

All this does is make the bots place the shards at even less than the vendors.