I'm replying to a few comments on my suggestions, and adding another suggestion.

"I had considered the idea mentioned earlier of a coalition of real person crafters/seller working against these bots... but for it to work, every crafter/seller needs to be on board, and that would never happen. new crafters coming in, having spent a lot of gil to get to where they are would want to make gil fast, which would break down the whole idea"

I believe this was in reference to my first idea to make a coalition of crafters that undersell items below the bot's floor prices. For this suggestion to work, you wouldn't need to have all crafters/sellers on board--in fact, undercutters that aren't aware of the coalition would help the scheme. The objective is to eliminate item markets to the botters by always selling items at just below the bot's floor value. If the RMT bot can't make money by selling items, then their motivation to cheat in the marketboard would be eliminated. I had been doing a slightly different version of this scheme for a few weeks, and it works with just 1 seller (myself). In my case, I forced the bot to sell its items at floor prices on about 20 items, and they moved out of some of the markets (items to sell). This suggestion could work, but it would require a lot of patience to dry out bots.

"You'll never get players to abandon the marketboard because there are too many players."

I believe this is in reference to my second suggestion. My second suggestion was to create an FC titled "No Marketboard." The objective here is not to replace the marketboard but to protest and raise awareness to other players and GMs. I agree that players will continue to use the marketboard, and they should. If members of the FC can't provide an item, other players should use the marketboard. The objective here is to raise awareness for GMs and other players by posting a recruiting message in all major markets. You don't need everyone involved to make a protest work--just a small, vocal minority. This suggestion, however, assumes that GMs are monitoring the game, which I suspect is not the case.

Another suggestion I had made in another post was to request that SE eliminate player-to-player gil trading or trading altogether. They could even do this for a subset of the servers. Some other MMOs have done this, and it has seriously hampered RMT. The types of RMT that remain have been the sale of player accounts, which would be less of an issue for FFXIV because of paid progression through their Moggle service.

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