Quote Originally Posted by supergiz View Post
What if they took a system like those mining minigames in the gold saucer. I imagine it's pretty dang hard to bot those successfully. Even harder if they combined it with timed nodes. Just add something very active on high value rare nodes that makes it very difficult if not impossible to bot.
In the beginning of Heavensward we had the favor system for end game gathering. The only thing these sort of things actually impede are actual players. Bots go 24 / 7 and can keep going 24 / 7 even if they lose some efficiency over esoteric mechanics. Players always get hit.