Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
The point is that crafting is a memory controller and botcrafter's activity now, and at this point you might as well give real players a fighting chance.

In FFXI you could level quickly if you had the resources. Your logic fails. That system was even harder to progress in, even though you could progress 10 times faster.

The point is to stop pretending the time it takes to level crafting is even done by crafters instead of programs any more, and to start emphasizing cost of mats as a means to progress in crafting. Not time.
Yeah but it's not just craft bots that are out there. Farming bots are rampant. I'm farming for another crab bow +3 attempt and I've encountered two different botters in Cassie in the past 24 hours. One belongs to the JP bot LS and the other the NA bot LS. I'll mention no names but you know who they are. So how would you combat that? Have mats dished out for free by NPCs?

Over half the remaining playerbase is botting, the only way to stop it is for mass bannings. Most botters make it so obvious that they're doing it they could be caught easily. SE should just suddenly decide to start taking botting seriously and not tell anyone until ban day. Then all these making it obvious will disappear. But the minute SE does say something these guys will stop botting, or stop making it so obvious.