Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Im gonna be frank, Im a bit skeptical of your take. It could very well be that way on Brynhildr, but on Sarg here it isnt. I have had no trouble making money on the MB as most of my items tend to sell without issue. To drive that point home, in the last 6 months, Ive made about 40 or so million Gil from selling Whistles from POTD on the MB. And that wasnt even me grinding hard on it. Other items Ive sold are mats from maps, weapons or item materials from EX mode trials, and misc junk brought back from my retainers.

Being on the game as long as I have, I dont see botting as 'getting worse'. There are definitely outlier events, like that time where Uldah had like 40 some odd bots bug out and get stuck in a loop, but I generally dont encounter bots that often in teh real world, and I still am able to make money with relative ease on the MB. If anything, Ive seen a decrease in RMT spam. This si anecdotal, I get it, but I dont think Im the only one with this outlook. Frankly, I think the OFs and Reddit tend to blow up the bot issue bigger than it really is simply because it's easy to collect a bunch of disparate small events and paste them all together to give the impression it's destroying everything.
I am going to be frank right back, either Sargantas is an outlier to the problem, or you arent seeing bot issues because you dont want to.

on Zalera there have been about 8 that run the market, then an import RMT ring that bring in goods from a crafter (one crafter ONLY) that puts up 5 items per category) from another world on Crystal, and their goods with the same retainers names are found across the datacenter. that number has recently ballooned.

so for you have seen nothing of the sort is little short of miraculous.

to be fair though, the tracking spreadsheet we have for Sargantas doesnt list many so maybe you have been EXTREMELY lucky. but I doubt it.