Quote Originally Posted by Dubont View Post
the common misconception is that all bots are RMT. This is false as I know many who bot on occasion and not one of them is affiliated with RMT activities. CAN botting hurt the economy? If the bot itself is designed to, then it will, but not all of them are/do. Bots designed to gain sp for the player off of mass production of low rank, low cost, "junk" items does absolutely nothing to hurt the economy. The bot shown in the OP is a little different. I have mixed feelings regarding that one...
All bots hurt the economy equally. Your friends who bot their crafts are no different from RMT. They're MMO bottomfeeders. They don't deserve to be the level they are. They don't deserve the profit from being that level. They don't deserve to spend the gil they earned. Someone else deserves whatever they get with that level, gil, profit, and everything they never earned.

No difference, at all. Botting players should be suspended on sight and banned at their next infraction.