Quote Originally Posted by NamidaTekika View Post
Agree on both of those. The bots are out of control gathering and market. Even ones that get reported never go away.
The worst part is that they're so obvious. If someone would just log in and look, they would see this, because they don't even try to conceal it.

There's one super-obvious one on Lamia who sells all the end-game gear (and really anything else remotely pricey), and it takes a minute to figure out what they're up to. I'm sure it's the same on all servers. I haven't researched the other servers yet, but I'm going to, because if I can find even one where it's not this bad I'm out of here, my medium house be damned.

They're in a FC of 9 "players". No house, obviously. Generic name. One of them is all 80's in crafting, 1's in gathering, and 72 in ONE battle class (basically as high as you need to get to unlock everything you need to bot-craft), the other 8 "players" are leveled in ONE random battle class to 19 or 20 (i.e. to unlock market board/retainers). The crafter bot is online 24/7 in their apartment, and exactly one other "player" is ever online at the same time as that's how they rotate to undercut on the MB, because that's all those accounts exist for.

So we're talking 90 retainers among them, that's 1800 items they can sell on the MB, and they just cycle through the bot accounts to constantly undercut everything. And they will undercut no matter how low you go, even if it's to below-profitable amounts.

So you literally can't sell anything remotely valuable unless you just sit at the market board, catch the moment you're undercut, undercut in kind, and hope your item sells before they rotate that retainer's account back in to undercut you again.

I'm talking all the Neo-Ish gear, all the Aesthete gear, every glam weapon you can name (Moonlit, Shinryu, Sophie, etc.), Ironworks Crafting/Gathering gear, you name it.

I just wish we could talk about this stuff more explicitly so we could spread awareness and ask people not to buy from this account. I gotta believe most other crafters on the server know about this account.