Lack of action against gathering bots, it needs to be changed, and soon

[Allooutrick]

I never considered this or cared for it until I started gathering. It was then I had to use a few popular bot spots to get quest materials and saw literally lvl 80 gatherers running the same circles for hours without pause in locations 30 to 50 levels below them. Then come back after going to bed and there they are, still doing the exact same thing. It was saddening and really hampered the fun I could've gotten out of harvesting. Isolation would've been preferable to seeing that people don't want to experience the content.

[Granyala]

Isolation would've been preferable to seeing that people don't want to experience the content.

Eeeh... I wouldn't call "hitting a node to get mats into your inventory" as content.
I don't want to "experience" it myself so I usually put on a movie when mass gathering. Never outlasted an hours worth of farming though.

[Allooutrick]

Eeeh... I wouldn't call "hitting a node to get mats into your inventory" as content.
I don't want to "experience" it myself so I usually put on a movie when mass gathering. Never outlasted an hours worth of farming though.

I can understand that. The moment to moment gameplay isn't exactly engaging or fun. I've come to enjoy the long term focus of it though. Keeping aware of unspoiled nodes and using alarms, seeking out specific materials and allowing node properties to influence which skills to use, deciding if I should pop a cordial potion or accept the risk. It's a slow burn kind of fun what I enjoy most about it.

[Endeleon]

Eeeh... I wouldn't call "hitting a node to get mats into your inventory" as content.
I don't want to "experience" it myself so I usually put on a movie when mass gathering. Never outlasted an hours worth of farming though.

LOL what? of course it is content. Gathering is it's own system altogether, with sub systems even like collecting and aetherial reduction. What a ridiculous and nonsense statement.

[Granyala]

LOL what? of course it is content. Gathering is it's own system altogether, with sub systems even like collecting and aetherial reduction. What a ridiculous and nonsense statement.

I don't consider gathering content, just as I don't consider facerolling trivial mobs in the overworld to get drops content (senseless achievement hunting also falls into this category).
Content either provides story progression or engages my brain. The above does neither.