What is being doing against botters?

[KageTokage]

The RMT bots aren't the problem, honestly. It's the "legit" bots owned by actual players (Reflected by that tiny number of people banned for botting) who tend to utterly screw up the economy by flooding the market that are troublesome. These guys are perfectly controllable, but SE either doesn't care about them or simply isn't able to tell that they're botting despite how precisely scheduled and repetitive their actions tend to be.

Logically, the number of bans should've gone up due to 4.3's release drawing back a ton of players and with them, bots, but the number of bans has been decreasing instead.

The issue has been so persistent on Cactaur that I see more and more players caving and starting to bot so they can compete with the other dominant forces on the MB and it's rather sad.

The important thing in the fight against rmt is to get the accounts holding the money, depriving them access to their stock.

The problem is that they don't even have a "bank" account that stores all the gil like one might think, and everything is totally expendable.

I've actually witnessed someone in the process of conducting a RMT transaction before, and they simply invite you to the FC all of the gil farm bots are in and trade you the money from the FC chest that way.

This means that when SE does decide to crack down on the FC, it's almost a certainty everyone who's purchased from them is going to get punished.