Quote Originally Posted by tocsin View Post
Actually, Bots and Player bot programs don't exactly have a time value of zero. Even with the best teleporting bots, there still is a limited amount of shards that a bot can gather in an hour. doing a small google search (and not even clicking the links), most gathering bots can only gather a maximum of 600-700 items per hour. that's 16,800 max per day of paid subscription. its a lot larger amount than any normal player has, but its a far cry from zero time value..
Again, i repeat. Zero value. a non-zero value is a value that consumes a real person's time. in which case both a real person and a BOT user are paying the exact same subscription.

16K shards a day. Set the BOT and go out for a whole day. Work, shop, hang with friends, and go to the movies. For the Cry, a person gathers on his own all day, and the other lives the fullest day knowing that he will have his 16K shards ready to use. Now that's fair, isn't it?

Another thing, why aren't RMTs/BOTs selling shards as they used to in Sep-Dec 2013, ie. in range of 20 gil a shard?