Cheating and RMT exploitation has hit a new level of ridiculous.

[KageTokage]

I'm starting to think they ought to just axe the free gil from job/story skips and give the player a mountain of aetheryte tickets instead because it's the only significant gil sink they're liable to actually need the gil for immediately, and it discernably plays into the farming tactics the RMTers use as I've seen waves of level 50 bots doing the 2.0 MSQ which suggests they used the skip both to get the gil and blaze faster.

I don't have much confidence these guys are going to get punished after those treasure map bots were allowed to run rampant for close to a year despite their painfully obvious scripting, and while I'd like to hope that the hacking has things stacked more heavily against them, most bots in general already bypass standard gameplay restrictions by ignoring OGCD delays, line of sight, targeting distance, and numerous other fundamentals that normal players are bound by...

Can you imagine how much things would cost if everyone had to gather their own crystals and aethersand, instead of bots constantly minting them by the thousands?

It would honestly normalize the economy because right now the amount of gil flowing in still far exceeds the amount leaving it because with all items being dirt cheap the market tax is that much lower by extension.