botting.

[Crica]

The only way to prevent botting is to not design content that encourages it!

I agree.

However, the player base asked SE for the crafting system to be re-designed from the NON-bot design it was previously to the PRO-bot design it currently is.

SE has only been, since day one of release, re-working all designs of the game to what the players have asked for.

It was not bot-friendly before - albeit, that also means it was not player-friendly either - players would have to push alot more buttons and think about their choices to craft before the current changes to the crafting were implemented because the players ASKED for them.

I have been watching everyone ask for these changes, laughing the whole time at them, because I knew they were asking for SE to make it so easy that botters would love it.

Now, they see its so easy for botters, and they are crying, like I knew they would.

[MANTASTIC]

I agree.

However, the player base asked SE for the crafting system to be re-designed from the NON-bot design it was previously to the PRO-bot design it currently is.

SE has only been, since day one of release, re-working all designs of the game to what the players have asked for.

It was not bot-friendly before - albeit, that also means it was not player-friendly either - players would have to push alot more buttons and think about their choices to craft before the current changes to the crafting were implemented because the players ASKED for them.

To clarify, I'd rather have the current system than the slightly different one that came before it. I'd like, overall, for the barriers to entry of crafting be removed, and for there to be a fun/engaging way to advance it without mindless repetition. If that proves impossible to design, just make it an auto craft system like wow's, or like fallen earth/eve's* if they want the time requirement to remain.

*In those games, products are crafted in real time while the player does other things, and the crafting process continues when the player logs off.