I feel like there should be a limit on how often an item's price can be changed.

[Nixxe]

It annoys me how much benefit of the doubt people give others when it comes to bots, because if I suspect someone, I'll investigate thoroughly before I start making conclusions.

It is my policy to never trust the judgment of randos and certainly not on their mere assurances that they know what they're talking about. People routinely grossly overestimate their competence.

Craft bots are common, but people who use undercut bots are not. This player is only the second one I've noticed on my server; the other having been a longtime nuisance since the late HW days and whose name has become familiar to pretty much all of the legitimate crafters on the server due to how obnoxious they are. They play it safe by either using alt accounts to farm their mats or just buying it all straight off the MB and are holed up in their house crafting away about 99% of the time.

Some of them also do their selling on alt accounts, possibly to reduce the risk of their entire operation getting shut down if they do ever get caught. The latter one I mentioned has a trio of low leveled alts in their FC stationed in each of the three ARR cities that log on/off in a constant cycle whenever they're actively undercutting people.

Sure, bots may be out there, but if the best they can manage is being inferior to me, a player who does not bot, then it's not worth treating it like a crisis and making drastic changes to the game in an effort to prevent it. By your own admission people actually botting the MB per se is rare, so what sense does it make to greatly alter the MB to prevent the rare occurrences? The nature of botting is such that you can basically make any changes you want and it will always be worth it to bot because botting is free progress. Who you end up hurting with draconian game systems are actual players whose time spent at the keyboard is made less effective.