Let us report retainers who sell items from bots

[Vlady]

I am starting to see a large crop of raw shards being sold by same few retainers on my server. whenever goes guys load up the price of sharps plummet from 45 gil to 20-10 gil. I keep seeing some retainers with over 20 stacks of 9999 of different shards. Let us right click on retainer names in the market and just do a instant report of suspicion. Botting and cheating is becoming more and more rampant.

[MugenMugetsu]

Maybe I underestimate the ability of a person to collect 9,999 shards, but with 20 stacks of 9,999 this doesn't sound like legitimate mining of shards, or collecting them from some other means. It sounds like this person is using some kind of hack, or that since they are RMT and have access to billions, if not trillions of gil, that they are buying up all the shards, then lowering the price and selling them. What does anyone else think? Hack, market manipulation, or legit?

[Ashkendor]

Maybe I underestimate the ability of a person to collect 9,999 shards, but with 20 stacks of 9,999 this doesn't sound like legitimate mining of shards, or collecting them from some other means. It sounds like this person is using some kind of hack,

More likely they're just botting them.

or that since they are RMT and have access to billions, if not trillions of gil, that they are buying up all the shards, then lowering the price and selling them. What does anyone else think? Hack, market manipulation, or legit?

Er... I don't see how this makes sense at all. It'd basically be throwing money away.

[Zaft]

they are buying up all the shards, then lowering the price and selling them. What does anyone else think? Hack, market manipulation, or legit?

That's genius. Buy high, sell low. Why did nobody else ever think of that?

[Nouran]

That's genius. Buy high, sell low. Why did nobody else ever think of that?

LOL

/10char

[Zorvan]

That's genius. Buy high, sell low. Why did nobody else ever think of that?

Actually, it makes sense. Anything that is a main source of income for legit players is a threat to those wanting to sell gil. The more money you can make legitimately, the less tempted you are to buy gil.

Think of it like the windshield repair guy who spends the previous night throwing rocks through a neighborhoods car windows.

[SarcasmMisser]

Think of it like the windshield repair guy who spends the previous night throwing rocks through a neighborhoods car windows.

[TheCurls]

Perhaps, they are trying to crash the market as to make profiting by normal means almost impossible. Which might drive some of us to buy Gil from them. Nice evil scheme for ya.

But if they make shards cheaper, I won't have to buy gil. I'll be able to afford all the shards without it.

Think of it like the windshield repair guy who spends the previous night throwing rocks through a neighborhoods car windows.

No, it's like the windshield repair guy tying $100 bills to the rocks and then charging you $50 for the repairs.

[Narthice]

Maybe I underestimate the ability of a person to collect 9,999 shards, but with 20 stacks of 9,999 this doesn't sound like legitimate mining of shards, or collecting them from some other means. It sounds like this person is using some kind of hack, or that since they are RMT and have access to billions, if not trillions of gil, that they are buying up all the shards, then lowering the price and selling them. What does anyone else think? Hack, market manipulation, or legit?

Perhaps, they are trying to crash the market as to make profiting by normal means almost impossible. Which might drive some of us to buy Gil from them. Nice evil scheme for ya.

[XgungraveX]

there not way to tell maybe its a bot or they do what i do farm during the week and selling there whole stock at peak times on weekends.