Quote Originally Posted by Blarp View Post
Well, with something like a turbo gamepad it's impossible to detect unless the GM suspects you're not at your computer. They literally made it so easy to "bot" crafting with the most recent change that someone with no scripting knowledge can go buy a turbo gamepad and there is absolutely nothing they can do to prevent/detect it besides have GM's check to see if the user is at the keyboard. It is bannable if you're not at your computer and a GM may decide to check on you if you're sitting there crafting for 20 hour stretches, so there is a risk.
Sure they can detect it, they just look for the timing of the button presses being too exact to be a real person. At least for simple turbo button gamepads. They could simply alter the crafting interface again.

I also feel that crafting in XIV is one of the dullest things I have seen.