Quote Originally Posted by Dubont View Post
2) There isn't a limit to how many items players can get in an area. I'm not sure where you got that info from, but it's wrong. You get gathering fatigue. It's like...every 150 or so items, you start failing all gathers. This isn't because of botters at all. It's because of SE trying to stop botters, but they just go right through it because they still get SP for fails.
You start with 2500 points. Every successful gathering attempt has you lose 10 points.
Once you have 1000 points or less, you begin auto-failing your gather. When you hit 0 points, you will always auto-fail.
Points regenerate at 100 per hour.

Basically, this means you can get 150 item drops each day (irl) before you hit gatherer's limitations, or 250 until you will stop getting items all together. That's drops, not total items. One drop may contain several items.

This info was taken from one of the community rep's posts, translating the information from a dev.