Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Banning bots as soon as they're detected does nothing to break the bots. It just forces the operators to set up a new account, which only takes a couple of minutes plus a small delay to level the character. The bot will continue to function just as it had before on the new character that is now unknown to SE as a bot.

Actually, if they were only just a little more aggressive at banning, it would make botting uneconomical. Gil prices for gil buyers would go up and sales would go down and then those ~$12 accounts/month for bots wouldn't be worth it.