Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
That’s the thing though, they are >>>possibly<<< cheating. It is extremely unlikely that someone is just sitting their all day every day checking the market board and undercutting items… but it is possible…again however unlikely.

The devs have an innocent until proven guilty stance. There is no way for the devs to determine if that person is just a real weirdo who loves selling stuff, or a bot.

There is no good answer here. Either a) the devs have some kind of cheat detection software which they are against (and indeed can be a huge problem to do in Japan), or b) they start allowing bans for suspicious activity which means truly innocent people will get banned.

The Eureka bots are in a similar situation- unless they are teleporting around or doing something a normal player couldn’t do, there is no way for the GMs to see cheating.
I ended up reporting them via the lodestone because I had some proof, at least I thought it was the closest thing to it without them admitting to it. I traded with the character, and they did not cancel the trade for 15 minutes. I repeated this a few times, sometimes they'd stick really expensive items in the trade and just leave them there for 15 minutes. They never accepted the trade or anything but any real player would not leave trades open with a random person for so long, repeatedly. Even if it was someone tabbed out, tabbing back in all the time to check retainers, they wouldn't do that.