RMT bots spamming /say and /shout in the city states is not a new thing. It’s been fairly common on almost every server except the congested servers, where the bots cannot make characters. These bots are generally removed fairly quickly upon you using the Right-Click > Report RMT command. The issue is that more are made just as quickly to replace them. And this has always been the case.

The ARC/CNJ/THM bots that go around doing the MSQ for gil are also really common (as well as their bot FCs for gil hoarding). These bots are banned in waves, and a post is usually made about it on the Lodestone every week/ever two weeks.


As for Market Board prices dropping, that may not even be be related to the RMT bots with the exception of shards.

If you’re looking at one particular market consistently being overran with product and crashing hard (e.g., the consumables market with current raid potions and food), that’s the work of individuals that pay for botting services that automate gameplay so they can AFK craft in their houses all day long—my server has had this problem since Stormblood dropped with an individual listing multiple stacks of 99 (and I mean like 20-30 stacks of 99 for EACH infusion) of the current raid food and pots, to the point that each were a few thousand gil apiece.

I agree that those individuals should have something done about them. But simply seeing prices fluctuate doesn’t necessarily equate to a botting problem—and RMT bots generally don’t craft items for the Market Board. I believe, at most, they gather shards.


I don’t think you can really say that every server’s economy has crashed. I haven’t heard of any issues (aside from food/infusions) on Cactuar with market board prices crashing. Crafted gear may be cheaper now, but its also been out since September 2018. So that’s not surprising.