Bot Farmer retainers

[Wulfies]

Hello,

I do not know if this has been brought up, but can SE please look into the owner of a retainer that has close to 20k worth of crystal shards currently on the market for bot farming/cheating?

I know this sounds whiny, but come-on, a little common sense is needed to detect cheating.

Thanks

[dspguy]

Some of these guys are listing 25000 shards on the broker and trying to sell them in stacks of 5000 each. I think the market itself will drive RMT out of shard farming. It is a business for them. If they need to farm/bot for 5 hours to get 5000 shards and only sell those 5000 shards for a total of 50k (since some shards are down to 10gil each), they will likely move on to something more profitable. It is about gil/hour and in turn dollars/hour.

[Darkjolie]

2 Weeks ago I sold over 65.ooo Wind Shards on Market Board.... I am not a RMT, i was just buying all the Shards for 5gil from Market Board, and put them back in 1.000 stacks for 30g/each

Now you tell me you can only have 9999 shards?

9999 + 2 retainers = 3 x 9999 = 29997 Shards

Now you sell 1k stacks on Market board and fill out your 20 spots

20 * 1000 = 20k shards per retainer selling

20k x 2 = 40.000 + 29997 = 69997 shards selling

Not everyone is an RMT selling shards, and its good that SE is not banning people completly blind

[HEC]

I'd be VERY carefull on flipping / reseling those clearly bot / RMT produced items at lower stack regularly or in large quantities - leaving aside that you're actually supporting / fueling the whole RMT machinery (for your own profit) you might also end up flagged as RMT yourself and face the perma ban - not IMO worth the risk. I'm staying clear of purchasing anything from RMT sources (not that I do purchase much anyway, I gather 99% of the mats myself) as I prefer to be not under suspicion of any ilicit activity.