Every time i go to farm shards cause it takes 15 shards per craft basically so i need mass amounts of them to craft for food and potions, i see robots.

Is this intended? Robots are much more efficient and can gather while the real human is away.

In 1.0 ALC could make crystals and in XI you could break down the larger crystals.
Both of which are not an option so it leaves me quite confused. Like its literally the perfect breeding ground for robots/gil sellers. Literally cause there is always bots out there.

It would be great if ALC could at least break down the clusters. Thanks