Quote Originally Posted by MilitaryVet123 View Post
The market and gathering bots are typically from the same player. Only breaking the gathering ones does nothing. It only takes 2 days to level a gatherer to Lv80 starting from scratch (with jump pot). Only breaking the market ones is even worse than doing nothing since it takes 2 hours to get a market bot up and running. So you do need both to be crushed to fix this. But then that only means they'll only take 2.5 days to get back up to speed.

The ban waves target egregious cases where some botters get too greedy and even hack the game. That is an easy ban. For some reason SE also really likes catching MGP botting so that's another part of the "ban wave".
Ya, the ban waves don't really do anything to the main issues fueling RMT and the like either. And thats 2.5 days of them not generating money. If they were actively hitting the accounts on the weekly, losing 1/3 of a week of bot activity on all or most of their bots would make it a bad ROI overall to relevel the bots constantly (especially if they get caught during leveling too).

Basically have to make it worse and worse ROI for botters to make it a bigger hassle releveling constantly and very little overall uptime on the bots (since it does take them resources and time to get all the gear too for the bot to be able to effectively gather things or to even generate crafted goods)