Crafter=Botter (90%)

[Alise]

Any mindless/brainless can rank up crafting, that is how bot exist.
SE should change the mini-game to make it use more brain, I m sure bot can not play puzzle game that random every times. So just make it puzzle and all will be good. (card game, testis, whatever, but please no laggy-silly one like parley)

So I agree on the part that the system encourage bot, However I disagree on the part that people must bot to get R50. Other people just simply can do what you can't, you gotta admit this.

[WillRiker]

Any mindless/brainless can rank up crafting, that is how bot exist.
SE should change the mini-game to make it use more brain, I m sure bot can not play puzzle game that random every times. So just make it puzzle and all will be good. (card game, testis, whatever, but please no laggy-silly one like parley)

So I agree on the part that the system encourage bot, However I disagree on the part that people must bot to get R50. Other people just simply can do what you can't, you gotta admit this.

If you can do it, an algorithm can be made. Once you have an algorithm, a bot can be made.

The only difference would be in the complexity of program.

[Gun_Anam]

I'm sure bot can not play puzzle game that random every times. So just make it puzzle and all will be good

While I do like the sentiment behind your post, and agree that it should be made harder to bot, one must remember that bots can be programmed to perform almost any task more efficently than a human regardless of how complex it is. This is how we ended up with computers that could defeat chess champions. No matter how complex crafting/gathering is made, it will always be possible to create a bot to perform the same task better than a human could.

The best we can hope for is that SE make crafting/gathering more fun for people who do it legitimately and implement their own bot identification system to allow them to rid the game of those who cheat the game in this way.