Quote Originally Posted by NealSnow View Post
Now it's no surprise people are botting for this, and for the people who are botting and turning the stuff in instead of waiting, its kinda easy to tell who is or isn't (being top 1/2 with a 200k difference to the rest and getting in 109k gathering score in a day seems highly unlikely accounting for sleep, food breaks ect) so this won't be a "what can be done" thread no, instead I am curious.

Has the botting demoralized you and made you give up, knowing that you likely can't compete with a AI that doesn't need to sleep? OR has it rather encouraged you to try and beat the botters? I am curious to which effect it has had on people.
Oh I flat out gave up, mainly because I believe that SE has 'screwed the pooch' on this event. Bit of a tangent incoming ...

But even at creation, I don't feel SE took this seriously. Maybe it's a difference of gaming (East vs West), but I've found westerners (esp Americans) enjoy that instant gratification. If they want it, they will get it at that moment or the easiest way possible.

I was in the first part of the Ishgard event. Not only did we have people from other servers coming into our server's Firmament instance (I was on Mateus at the time), but actively stating they intended to pull other there to, which they did. This is turn locked out the Firmament for actual people on that server having them miss the FATEs as well as making things for their server's standings. SE didn't take it seriously and it continued to happen until they said they would fix it for the second part.

I wasn't there for the second part ....

Came back to the game for the third part and entered the Firmament to see how it progressed. I think it looks nice. SO I'm like, okay let's see if I can help with this part. Boy I was wrong.

Read in notes they were giving titles to those in certain rankings and making a statue for the highest ranked crafting class? (I think I read that right .. correct me if wrong). Well my crafters are all around level 60 so lo and behold, I can't do much in the fancy stuff to give in. Fine, I'll work on gathering since they added that. Oh wait, I can't do FSH as you need to be level 80 to use the bait in Diadem. So leaves me with BTN and MIN ... both that can't get the good lvl 80 materials.

I think I gave up at that point. So now I just focus on leveling my crafters/BTN/MIN, and if I can make something I will ... you know like some ink. And an ingot. I just think of it as helping someone have ink to write up a ledger or something.

And don't get me started on the bots and SE's lack of caring about them.

Made me soured to look forward to any more of these events in the future that SE makes.