Destroying Server Economies

[Vnolan]

Perhaps this will pose an opportunity for crafters and gatherers to coordinate on ether forum or discord to beat the bot/gold sellers at their own game and squeeze them out of the market

Not possible. Botters don't care how cheap goods sell for.

who is a legitimate gatherer/crafter to actually buy from on the market? We can also get the word out between guilds, new players

The majority don't care because they benefit from them.

hopefully SE to help such a project.

SE really doesn't care.

So the OP's complaint is that players on their server now have more options to buy items from?

Here is something currently happening: The cheapest infusions are on Gilgamesh. The majority are made through the use of bots. Players looking to make easy Gil are buying them from Gilgamesh and relisting them on their servers for as much as they can. Either players buy those relists on their home world and indirectly fund the bots or they compare servers and buy from the bots directly. So yeah, prices are going down, but if you don't care that they come from bots, why not bot yourself and cut out the middleman?

[Lersayil]

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Here is something currently happening: The cheapest infusions are on Gilgamesh. The majority are made through the use of bots. Players looking to make easy Gil are buying them from Gilgamesh and relisting them on their servers for as much as they can. Either players buy those relists on their home world and indirectly fund the bots or they compare servers and buy from the bots directly. So yeah, prices are going down, but if you don't care that they come from bots, why not bot yourself and cut out the middleman?

True, but then again we've had botting issues for years now, and the market is yet to crash. I am against bots in principle, but if the next best option is overpriced stuff (by a large margine), I won't stand on that principle. Now it's another question if the cross-shard travel feature will push the botting issue over the edge, but slippery slope arguments and over-exaggerating the issue wont help much.

Botting is an issue that has to be dealt with, but the cross-server market merge (for the moment at least) is a net positive for the majority of people.