Quote Originally Posted by Rinsui View Post
Ouchouchouch. You definitely didn't pass the economics exam, did you?
If he illegally acquires his crystals, which he otherwise would have had to buy just like anyone else, he gains an illegal monetary advantage of exactly the same amount as if he sold the crystals for cash in the first place. Basically he's printing forged money.
Illegally acquires crystals? You do realize that you don't have to buy crystals to get them...right? You can easily make them without a bot >.> If a botter sits his bot to grind crystals for 12 hrs, he will have the same amount of crystals as a person who sits and manually grinds crystals for 12 hrs (Give or take a few depending on the logic speed of the program being used)

Quote Originally Posted by Rinsui View Post
they re-grow like a bad rash, that's true. But constantly cutting them down at least ensures they don't crash the economy completely like they did in FFXI. Until all of a sudden, SE decided to mass-ban thousands of them without as much as a warning in 2004.

I still remember the day when half of the endgame linkshell leaders suddenly and silently disappeared, hahahahaha!!!
cutting them down does help, but it also causes companies to make bad decisions such as the crafting/gathering mini-games. Companies think that this will cut down on botters, but really, it just makes the coding harder unless the botter designs a pixel bot. THEN, everything that SE tried to do just went to hell >.>