Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[MilitaryVet123]

I took one look at the characters in that group and the face looks and I know EXACTLY two of those in that group that are gathering bots that are on 24/7 feeding this. I've literally reported them well over 60 times over the course of months as have others and they still exist. One's name is like a unpleasant rabbit for example and the other is a J (hope that avoids the naming and shaming rule).

Pretty sad when I can look at that and I know exactly what names of what bots are fueling this junk on my server.

The market bots and gathering bots are directly entwined since they fuel eachother and both need crushed to fix this, though breaking the gathering ones would starve the market bots. Either way it needs enforced, oh it might cost money to have staff do it, but doesn't our money for the game make us worth fixing this for? We do the heavy lifting most times since as shown we actively checking this out, making sure even our accusations have weight and evidence and we want to avoid catching legitimate players. I'd not be as upset myself if AT THE VERY LEAST one of the multiple bots I've seen EVERY DAY for the last 4 months had been banned, but they haven't they still are running gathering circuits and still dominating the markets for months on end when supposed ban waves happen.

The market and gathering bots are typically from the same player. Only breaking the gathering ones does nothing. It only takes 2 days to level a gatherer to Lv80 starting from scratch (with jump pot). Only breaking the market ones is even worse than doing nothing since it takes 2 hours to get a market bot up and running. So you do need both to be crushed to fix this. But then that only means they'll only take 2.5 days to get back up to speed.

The ban waves target egregious cases where some botters get too greedy and even hack the game. That is an easy ban. For some reason SE also really likes catching MGP botting so that's another part of the "ban wave".