Quote Originally Posted by Prrringles View Post
While I agree this is just as bad, I rather have map bots running around than craft/market board bots. The map bots at least supply cheap-ish materials while players still control the market prices for the crafted items. Anyway, botting = botting and should be eradicated.

EDIT: Same goes for crystal/cluster/dust/ore/plant farm bots by the way. Been a problem since forever. Either SE's detection systems sucks or they don't give a crap. It's one of those 2, nothing else. I mean if we (the players) can already identify 60%+ of all the bots then SE sure as hell can identify them and more. Which brings me to the conclusion they simply don't care enough. Also they ban in waves which lets bots sometimes continue on for months until the next wave hits. But that's what you get if your "anti cheat team" consists of only 3-5 Japanese people. This problem would be less obvious if every region had their own team I guess.
I think they only have 5 people if they hired 2 more to make them tea. or maybe massage their feet and shoulders to relax them after all the hard work they put in.

I really have no issues with their development team but their anti cheat systems seem to be only designed to promote cheating. many other game makers at least seem to try and stem the tide of cheaters and botters, despite the fact that it may be a never ending battle. SE seems to have just either given up, or has a % of the RMT sales. I have a hard time thinking they are really this incompetent at detection.