Do you think we need map bots for cheaper glamour mats?

[Knot_D]

I feel like the price of Exciting Fiber still not going down until now... Still around 800k to 1m per piece, and same with older glamour mats. Do you think map bots will bring those price down?

[kevin_satron]

"bots"

what?

[Darthgummibear]

map bots

[DixieBellOCE]

Wouldn't surprise me if there already were map bots.

With the # of bots in other areas of the game that square enix ignore because a sub is a sub, i'm sure a few map bots won't make a difference.

[Knot_D]

Wouldn't surprise me if there already were map bots.

With the # of bots in other areas of the game that square enix ignore because a sub is a sub, i'm sure a few map bots won't make a difference.

We do have map bots before EW, now it seems they're not interested with the glam mats and probably aiming for bicolor voucher and pyros bunny...

[Jojoya]

We do have map bots before EW, now it seems they're not interested with the glam mats and probably aiming for bicolor voucher and pyros bunny...

Bunnies. They found bunnies to be easier gil and so mostly abandoned maps.

I'm out and about in the zones fairly often for hunts but I'm not seeing any groups that appear to be botting FATEs. There probably are some, but I'm sure the number botting in Eureka is going to be a lot higher.

I don't think we need the map bots though. If players are worries about prices on the mats from maps, there is a simple solution.

Run maps themselves.

[GeminiReed]

If players are worries about prices on the mats from maps, there is a simple solution.

Run maps themselves.

Whenever I'm looking to make something that requires map mats I look at the MB and wince (buying Mariner cloth on Crystal is very painful right now). Then I look at the lengthy drop lists for the map they came from, throw up my hands, and go do something else. The chance of getting something salable is awful much less the one I actually need. I may as well go buy a RL lottery ticket. At least if I lose I know the proceeds are earmarked for worthy causes in my state.

The "problem" with "run them yourself" is that it takes too many map runs to actually get what you want. "Just sell what you got and buy what you wanted" works well enough when you get the super rares (assuming they sell) and need the not-so-rare but falls apart when flipped around.

IMO older map tiers should be moved towards a currency system. Run map, get map currency, go to vendor and buy what you want. There can still be some RNG involved (eg. number of tokens) that isn't so soul crushing.

[Deveryn]

Maps are fine. Go be social or wait for blue mage to be able to solo them.

[Midareyukki]

I don't understand the thread's wording. Are you advocating for map bots or saying that we'll need map bots to work on these things for the price to get lower?

Regardless, botting isn't exactly necessary. Just patience, really. You can get a new map every... what, 18h? Not including the one from the child in Idyllshire. Just round up a group, say you're looking for the drop and keep at it until you get it.

Bots would have to do the same too, just with a lot less button pressing.

[Knot_D]

I don't understand the thread's wording. Are you advocating for map bots or saying that we'll need map bots to work on these things for the price to get lower?

Basically this yeah. It's already proven at ShB that the calf leather and frontier cloth were pretty cheap because of bots doing the maps. Now after we have EW, both ShB and EW glam mats become pretty expensive because nobody doing old maps and, probably newer maps, because of the RNG and dead patch...