Market board botting is a problem

[Kes13a]

I know what Zalera is like. There are pockets of profitability. However they are shrinking and I wouldn't be surprised if they will be nil soon. But you ever wonder how they can have the entire range covered? It takes a lot of time and investment to cover that big of a range. But actually, it doesn't. Because it's trivial to craft endgame gear and leveling gear. Yellow scrips are done in 6 steps, 3 with HQ mats. Aesthete takes 17 steps. Neo-ishgardian takes 14 steps. Compare this to Heavensward and Ala Mhigan. This is the real problem and this is why botting is prevalent. If people want bots gone, first they must demand SE implement RNG mechanics (not skills, but quests that change every time etc. that serve as disguised captchas) across the entire crafting leveling experience. Recipes must be far harder to create. It should take a month to level all crafters to 80, not 2 days.

And this is never going to happen because Square Enix wants to game to be easier and simpler across the board.

Honestly, if this would solve the bot issue, I would be all for it. And yeah, any kind of profitability is fast closing. Even if they made things like any of the materials you need from script and tomes to be character bound, would solve a lot of the problem since the crafters never leave seem to do much, so suddenly instead of buying everything easily off the MP, they would have to actually go out and get tomes or scrips. And yes, that would adversely affect me as well since I can be lazy and buy sublimes off the MP, but if it works, I am willing to put up with some pain