Botting on the marketboard. Impossible to sell anything.

[Troxbark]

Just because somone checks their sales every hour doesn't mean they're a bot.

The bots undercut every 5-15min 24/7 until their minimum is hit. It's very obvious to see who is botting.

[PlanNeun]

No player is going to have that sort of control over everything in the game. A few players may be able to monopolize a certain few item on their home world/data center but most pricing is still going to be mainly influenced by supply and demand. If your seeing items being sold for roughly the same amount on multiple worlds, you're seeing the effects of world visit and data center travel on the marketboard.

If that's not what you're referring to, you should give a specific example of what you're talking about.

This is Rubbish and you know it

[JohncarterIx]

when some 1 sells more then 1 human when you got the same retaner names all relms bots

[JohncarterIx]

the dont go down 1 gil the go down 1000 gil a pop till its dead like 3303 they wont go to 3032 they will go 2032 and down fast = idiots

[Jojoya]

This is Rubbish and you know it

Rubbish how? Care to share some specific examples?

[Otomis]

On low pop servers crafting and auction house bots are not an issue from what I hear. BUT, on full servers they definitely are. As I gather and purchase high end items from the NPC, so there is no loss to me, when I notice a undercut bot running every 5-15 mins with random prices from 1-1000 gil; I look thought the Market for other items they are selling and drop them just below material costs. Dropped a bunch of primary/secondary crafting/gathering items today from between 300-400k all the way down to ~20-40k, and it was a break even for me. I did it 20k at a time and every ~5 mins or so the item would drop just under my price. Did this to roughly a dozen items until I noticed they just removed the items from the market board... In part, I feel like I wasted 2 hours of my time but it made me feel better, I guess.

[dspguy]

One of the big problems with the marketboard bots is that if you aren't competing on an item that sells at a very high rate, they'll just replace the one they sold with another. For example, the new crafted DoW/M gear sells quick. The bots will likely move theirs first, and then for the next hour or so, legit players might sell theirs. Then bots make more and relist and sell first again.

But for slower selling items... it is bots first and bots only. Let's say you are selling house walls. Maybe 1 sells per day (or week). That's plenty of time for the bot to replace it.

Problem is, most of the time, it is always bots first. Especially when there are multiple bots out there.