Botting is getting worse.

[Iagainsti]

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Sorry, I'm having hard time following what you said and why I was quoted. For one, I don't understand what housing has to do with my points, nor do I understand the relevance of your second paragraph. I am by no way a casual botter, yet I was able to afford to pay well over 40% of the cost of our FC house and buy a Large Plot when personal housing dropped the "legit"(this needs defining) way, and subsequently destroy it with no resentment when I saw other young FCs hurting for a house that I never used anyway, besides just wanting from the hype. So besides it defying the ToS, I do not see why a casual botter impacts the community if he is not reselling the gil for real currency.

[Galdous]

Sorry, I'm having hard time following what you said and why I was quoted. For one, I don't understand what housing has to do with my points, nor do I understand the relevance of your second paragraph. I am by no way a casual botter, yet I was able to afford to pay well over 40% of the cost of our FC house and buy a Large Plot when personal housing dropped the "legit"(this needs defining) way, and subsequently destroy it with no resentment when I saw other young FCs hurting for a house that I never used anyway, besides just wanting from the hype. So besides it defying the ToS, I do not see why a casual botter impacts the community if he is not reselling the gil for real currency.

Turning this into a personal argument is not really the best way to go. Most bots farm gil or mats to make items or to use on the market. Said market receives huge influx of items which cause artificial inflation and gil earning into the server which causes prices of low end items to go down but with such a huge influx of gil on the server it causes gil to inflate meaning it is not worth as much because of said amount of unnatural gil being pushed into the server. That causes luxury items or high end items to go up in price because of before mentioned meaning of inflation.

People who farm gil and mats have a huge advantage over those who do not. If you can somehow tell me how they do not or how that does not hurt you then be my guest. But said person who uses bots to earn gil illegally can use the gil to afford items they would not normally be able to aka housing which means that those who do not cheat are the ones affected. Both in the market, in housing and in the game in general.