Yeah, its not fair to those who are flouting the rules to do RMT gil generation. naming and shaming is beneath warrior of light types who always let the bad guys speechify instead of rushing them and letting it end right there.

We have to think of the feelings of those poor bot wielders, sitting behind their computers all lonely... hmm.. except the whole purpose of bots is so they dont HAVE to play the game like the rest of us.

I dont know, after 7 pages its nice to know I am not alone in my frustration at lack of any effort on the part of SE to deal with this issue. Of course, it just crystallizes the fact that SE is not going to do anything about this issue. I had considered the idea mentioned earlier of a coalition of real person crafters/seller working against these bots... but for it to work, every crafter/seller needs to be on board, and that would never happen. new crafters coming in, having spent a lot of gil to get to where they are would want to make gil fast, which would break down the whole idea

No, the only way to deal with this is for SE to step up.And until they put GM's in the game that do ALL aspects of the game, not just combat, then they will never identify this as a problem.