How is the botting situation in this game?

[Nepentha]

Part 2

Since you give me the aesthetes gear as an example, Ill provide a counter point: How long has that gear been out? If you watch gear prices on average, they will decline quite rapidly the longer the content is out.

Countering your counterpoint. It used to be there was a decent bit of time those items sold well. Why? Because it was actual players creating it, and the items needed for it weren't easy to get. Now the bots have everything down to a science. And there's no way to keep up. You get, at best, a week window before the bots have updated and they start churning out items so fast the prices plummet. We all know that prices go down as time passes and demand drops. But you could still sell things for a price that made it worth producing. (I can tell you don't really study the marketboard much. You would know this if you did.)

Furthermore, if youre really savvy about making money, you actually wait on things. For example, Indigo cloth was very expensive when it came out. Hard to get material that had some RNG behind it and was related to a popular glamour. So you could make good mney selling it. Given a few months, the price dropped substantially due to how ubiquitous it became.

This is really all rudimentary stuff that anyone who sells frequently on the marketboard and studies trends knows already. That's not what we're talking about here.

This is kind of what I mean by the problem isnt as big as people say. If you are saying "I cant make any money within reason" using the MB, youre probably being to low with your standards. I would be directly affected by botting IF my revenue came from farming common materials.

Ah see, that is where the difference is. Your stance is 'MY markets aren't affected, so I don't consider this a problem'. Until it does affect your markets, we're probably not going to agree.