Market board botting is a problem

[Jojoya]

Agreed that the bots are a problem upsetting game play balance, fairness and reward versus effort. SE need to stop ignoring the crafting/gathering/market bots.

But there are still plenty of ways to profit off crafting. The bots don't control the entire marketboard. Find the underserved portions of the market and sell those items. Profit is profit, whether it's 10k per item or 100k, and many times those 10k profit items sell much more rapidly than the 100k profit items, more than making up the difference.

[NebiYuga]

its not even about profit at this point.

i wouldn't have a problem with them if they stuck to their crystal farming ways but nowadays its crazy how they've evolved into becoming endgame farmers and crafters. that alone should be alarming

[Kes13a]

Agreed that the bots are a problem upsetting game play balance, fairness and reward versus effort. SE need to stop ignoring the crafting/gathering/market bots.

But there are still plenty of ways to profit off crafting. The bots don't control the entire marketboard. Find the underserved portions of the market and sell those items. Profit is profit, whether it's 10k per item or 100k, and many times those 10k profit items sell much more rapidly than the 100k profit items, more than making up the difference.

I agree with you, BUT.. most of the things you can carve out a little niche in are materials... and if people arent crafting because of the bots monopoly on crafted gear... then you have no market to sell into, even for a little profit

There has to be some end reward for spending the time and gil to work up to 80. selling on the MP is a "reward". if that carrot is removed, a large aspect of the crafting experience is gone. might as well just have us able to make trinkets of no use