Hi,
Last month we discovered one of our FC members was running
as a gathering-bot, in the tunnel near quarry. Character was
active, no reply to anything in the chat box, was doing the
movement between waypoints, the "bot jump,"
and running for nearly 24 hours at a time with no interruptions.
It didn't take long to discharge him from the FC.

He was running his main (or only) character as a part-time,
or "recreational," or "casual" bot or whatever the terminology
is supposed to be.

I can name a few FC's that are dedicated to casual botting
and having a mixture of real players and bots.

Then there are the professional RMT [closed] FCs consisting of
a level-1 GLD and 7 level-50 identical Thaumaturges or BLMs.

I feel that having a RMT buyer or bot owner in
a FC will jeapordize the FC if SE were to audit the gil trail.