Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
As far as I can tell, the bots are seemingly bypassing the standard retainer interface as the ones I've observed on my server never actually target the bell and will just run over to it, stand there for 10-20 seconds, then teleport to the next timed node they intend to gather from. During that brief time they're somehow able to adjust the prices on ALL of their retainers, which is blatantly impossible for an actual player as just cycling through that many retainers would normally take close to a minute due to all the loading and menuing.

That would suggest that they are actually hacking to make the retainer/price management faster, but SE doesn't seem to be able to pick it up for whatever reason.
I would love to know how they have managed that and how that is not bannable. I get it, SE has limited resources etc blah blah blah, but as you point out, without hacking/botting, thats impossible