Wow.. in browsing through this post its pretty clear that there must be a lot of botters posting in here... or should I say.. "people who are letting their kids play" or who are "watching netflix while they play so I couldn't respond to you"

Either way, botting is a major issues that is decimating the economy..... the fact is that when you bot, you can make free money.

For example, you're turning 1000 traded gil into 10,000 personal gil. Which may not be significant to one person, but when you have hundreds of people doing this 24 hours a day... you will see a lot more gil entering the economy. Simple as that. As other players have mentioned, there is nothing significantly taking money OUT.

New players that are coming in are now up against a majority of players who have multiple R50 crafts (which takes FOREVER to accomplish ((unless you bot))) and have little oppurtunity to enter into the market. Their prospects at making money will involve Gathering (which is heavily botted so the supply and demand are screwed up), Leves (this can be seen as your basic 'allowance' and the price for items will likely reflect this) or crafting (Which as mentioned in this thread- when heavily botted the ability to make gil in this for new players is rapidly decreasing)

As for those stating: who cares, economy doesn't effect me. You're being really ignorant. There will be items that you want to buy. Currently, money is flowing from the skies- but expect the prices of 'have to have' items increase along with that. Now all of a sudden, you can't pay for your sneak oils/invis powder, and you're trying to find a way to make money.

Lastly,
If you think you can level up faster than/equal to a bot... you're wrong. Simple as that. You cannot play 24 hours... a bot can. I don't care if you're getting 600 sp, while the bot is getting 200... they will easily outpace in the long run ,not to mention you're probably failing a couple of those 600 synths, while the bot is just mashing enter to complete it....