Regarding Bot-driven Gil Farmers

[Seyoun]

Yo Contrite, it's-a-me, Veena!

Hello all, I'm another 3-star crafter/career gatherer on Zalera. I was talking to a friend of mine just last night about this particular cheater. I have no need of gil but seeing this character teleporting around and hitting the nodes 24/7 has me really questioning the worth of what I'm doing.

Should I really be pounding cans of Monster on the weekend to stay up for 32 hours, risking death by taurine poisoning when cheaters can around-the-clock the nodes with no effort at all? Should I be sitting at the marketboard for hours refreshing the prices every 5 seconds to catch undercuts in real time when bots do this automatically all day long without getting bored, falling asleep, or keeling over dead of a heart attack?

Should you?

What's the worth of what we're doing? (To be clear I am not implying that anyone should start cheating. My position is that noone should cheat and those who do should be banned.)

Honestly, I've given up reporting. It seems to accomplish nothing. There's two players on our server that are not bots that openly use teleport hacks in front of everyone to see - they're that brazen. For example, at the adamantite node one of them appeared out of thin air near the node, having previously been in another area seconds before, but was standing in line of sight of the magitech bit. It aggroed and bust a cap in that candy backside so the player teleported away to drop aggro then immediately teleported back - right there with all the high level gatherers there watching.

Sometimes I wonder if we're suckers for playing legit!

P.S.: I'm joking about being poisoned by taurine consumption but yes, I do stay up for 30+ hours on the weekend crafting, gathering, and camping the MB, refreshing prices like a fiend and here's a bit of advice: Monster Zero and Raspberry Starbucks refreshers is for winner dawgs! *slaps the can of Red BS out of your hand*