I'd like the new players to be shielded from the hustlin' ballers who plan on milking them as soon as they hit. Over the years people have perfected the art of fleecing newbies, and it makes their game harder than we had it. We had it ridiculously easy. Hundreds of people LFP. Thousands of materials for sale. Ample gatherers just grinding to grind and give things away.

But that's got nothing to do with botting.
One way to help stop the bleeding in this game is to get the botters and RMT out of it. They're the icing bad name on the cake of fail here.

Plus, it'd relieve a lot of market ward congestion.