The amount of bots teleporting around is absolutely unbelievable

[Goji1639]

They affect leaderboards, such as Ishgard and have been known to run dungeons and PvP, affecting the gameplay experience for the rest of the team. They fill the server and cause queues. They also frequently cause some dungeons to become choked up and break the instance queue, Amdapor Keep being the most popular botting dungeon.

They also heavily crash the price of gathering materials, not just crafting. As for your idea to award maxed out omnicrafters with gil, there are maxed out omnicraft bots. Not to mention pushing large sums of raw gil into the economy will cause inflation.

The idea with the weekly is to monetize omnicrafting in a way that bots can't ruin, not to punish bots. Maxing out omnicrafting is a legit time investment; omnicrafting bots aren't the ones you see 100's of running around.

Also, there aren't that many omnicrafters in general. It would be easy to push through a few gil sinks for everyone to counterbalance it, and the end result leaves omnicrafters at a financial advantage; as they probably should be.

Beyond that, I rarely deal with server queues and rarely see bots in roulettes, so I have no idea how common it is for them to cause issues there. I do hear that they flood the PvP instances in this game, which is a problem.

What if we make a server for bots? They will never get banned there, so they have incentive to move their bots there. Then the rest of us will never have to see bots while we play in our normal server/worlds.

Well, the point of mass botting is to earn gil from people by flooding the MB, then sell gil to people for real money. A server of only bots means no customers on the MB and no customers for RM transactions, so the botters wouldn't go for it.