Quote Originally Posted by Kassad View Post
This thread is long and I did't read it all. I may have a solution.

1) Let the players the ability to flag someone as being a botter

2) If someone is flagged as a botter and is engaged in a combat (or gathering, crafting), nothing happens until the end of the combat. When it is time to reap the benefits (exp, items, gil, etc) the game delays the rewards until the suspected botter correctly answers a question. A picture is then submitted to the screen with fuzzy text (just like when you create a new hotmail account). If the suspected botter type the text right (could add voice to help), he (and his party) can have all the rewards. After 3 tries the botter account is locked for review by SE and no reward is granted.

3) If someone is flagged as a botter and is not engaged in a combat (or gathering, crafting), nothing happens until a combat is engaged. Then proceed to point 2.

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This is a really bad idea since it would surely result in abuse of this function. The XI team did a pretty damn good job their way on cracking down on RMTs and Bots and I'm sure eventually they'll do the same here.

Look. In FFXI the problem with Bots and RMTs was that players needed very specific gear to be good at their job and the community expected you to step up in almost every situation. There was a strong understanding that you needed these rings, eat this food, wear this armor. From there, RMTs took over and monopolized those items for a long time.

Money was also not a very easy thing to come buy either unless you were taking some serious time out of your job leveling to craft, gather, ect.

In XIV its completely different. Not only do players have access to the same leves that give large amounts of gil, but any new player can quickly pick up almost any craft, ANY gathering profession and make good money on the side without sacrificing a large amount of time from leveling their job.

The other major difference is in XIV, we have access quickly to NMs that drop amazing gear and fast. The game isn't nearly as demanding of the player to maximize every little stat point as XI was. Even if the game turns up difficulty to XI, SE is not going to make the same mistake in gear availability. I don't have the biggest faith in SE, but Im pretty sure they understood well what happened in XI.

So with large amounts of gil that anyone can make, gear dropping left and right from Leves, Chests, NMs ect, there's no shortage of wealth for everyone, even the new players.

RMTs using bots and people that aren't RMTs and using bots are not ruining this game anytime soon. Simply because, everyone can get money.

Am I saying there isn't inflation? No there is, but it's not botting or RMTs imo. The players have pushed their crafts and gathering probably harder than SE expected and the way the game is built, not botting, has caused almost everyone to be filthy rich and THAT is driving the cost of everything up.

How can it be fixed....I have no idea. High Level Gil sinks of some kind are the only real thing I can think of. But even that isn't going to cut back on the surely ridiculous amount of gil floating around in this game.

The way I see it, as long as the new comers can get lots of money to buy the things they need and the market at the top doesn't become completely out of hand than I see nothing wrong at this point.