Just to chime in on what the threads are discussing and to keep this thread going strong:

While demand was high for the new gear that came out most of the bots were chasing that market. Demand was still high enough that the bots could not dominate that market and a lot of regular crafters could make many sales. Now that demand has dried up those same bots are now seeding every item on the market. Literally 4 of these bot users have almost every item seeded currently on Excalibur. It's not that these bots directly take the fun out of the game and make it "unplayable" its more that its an outrage that it goes on blatantly, in our face, mocking our hard work and ethic and undermining what we feel is a rewarding part of the game to us as crafters.

If you banned even the most blatant offenders you would potentially be taking billions of gil out of the game and it would take a lot more than just a couple of days for these FC botting ring leaders to level up and then get every craft to 80 again so they can begin their operations again. By then you could identify their patterns again and continue to cut them down. It is a never ending cycle. But it is a necessary responsibility of SE to do this. I find it completely irresponsible of SE to only have 4 people dedicated to policing a game of millions.

If SE has the money to have someone go over every chat text that you can do while interacting on your MSQ, you know where every scene you can click on your allies and they say something about the quest your on, they can have a few more people dedicated to enforcing their terms of service and ensuring a quality gaming experience.

I enjoy seeing the posts that try to look at the problem from a development side i feel this adds good information so that we who are angry at SE for their lack of action can maybe see how a developer would address the problem. I do feel that both sides of the conversation are important if we are to find a solution that can work. I personally feel that some more man hours by SE would go a long way as it definitely is not hard to track these bots down with their behaviors.

I feel the hard work of a few individual in here in compiling and sending data to the STF should be commended. I hope the STF takes this effort seriously and we get a genuine reply from them.

Carry on!