Please Remove Botters/RMTers.

[ForteNightshade]

Gosh, I'm so tired of market bots. I've been playing the game for over 5 years and used the MB to sell stuff all the time, but I never noticed this issue until recently on my server. You just can't compete with these bots, and you keep seeing the names of the same crafters over and over. I even went as far as to character search 2 of these recurring crafters, and lo and behold, their FCs are definitely not composed of other players. There's even one of them with 2 "FC members" that I see all the time in Old Gridania, just popping out of nowhere next to the summoning bell, interacting with it for some time, then vanishing. The Elezen one has been the same level and wearing the same gear for over 2 months now -.-

They weren't nearly as bad until the mid to end of Stormblood. A notorious botter on Cactuar basically dominates the consumable market; putting up an endless stream of 99 potions. He's gone as far as listing over 10,000 in three days. Unfortunately, SE being so lax has emboldened a lot more players because why not? They know they'll never get banned for it.

Curious to see how awful the restoration rankings are going to be this time around, considering it's only going to take some minor tweaking for the bot producers to get their scripts functioning for the new nodes/crafts in phase 3.

I would love nothing more than for SE to congratulation their winners only to find out every single one of them was a bot. Maybe that level of embarrassment might actually wake the dev team up to how bad botting has become.