A DoL successfully gathering an item is IMO the equivalent of a DoW/M successfully slaying an enemy/mob. Which means that when we FAIL to pull that item in because of this hidden fatigue system, it would equate to a DOW/M suddenly being killed by 70%+ of anything they try and attack.
Even on the lowest grade a fully capped DoL can fail 80-90% of their harvest attempts do to this hidden system. Could you imagine if a DOW/M suddenly just started being insta-killed by 80-90% of the mobs in this game due to a system as terrible as this? Not only that but being insta-killed at 50 by a WARF RAT?
Not only that but this actually does more than affect are chances at gathering. It affects our leveling as well. I can go gather on fisher and hit fatigue. Now I swap to botany to rank up some. Oh guess what, now I have insta-fails on my botanist because I played my fisher for a few hours earlier. Completely ridiculous that one class can affect me ranking another class. Hidden fatigue should not be in game at all. But having is PERSIST across ALL dols is absolutely ridiculous. No other archtype in-game deals with this stuff, except for DOL.
I realize its SE's attempt to stop RMT but it does not stop them, it hardly hinders them. It hurts more legit players than it hurts RMT. It is RMT's job to make money off in-game resources. So what RMT will go gather until they hit bad hidden gather fatigue. Then sell those resources off for gil, sell the shards they acquired while DOLing for gil and in the case of fishing use alchemy to turn those fish into shards, to sell for gil. RMT is not being stopped by this. This is worse than trying to plug a leaky damn with tampons!
It's bad enough for DOLs that this system exists. It is completely inexcusable that hitting this on one job affects every other DOL jobs as well. If this idiotic system stays in place its only fair to implement a similar epic fail system for DOH and DOW/M. Share the pain SE or get your stuff together.
Instead of lame system meant to combat RMT that do little to nothing to them and instead hurt us real players, why not look into ways in which to make us WANT to earn stuff ourselves? No one has managed to stop the RMT army and you guys are arrogant if you think your system is going to be any different. They are like cockroaches , kill one and a dozen more appear. Realize that they are here to stay, give us improved tools for reporting RMT things that are fast and easy to report to you. This will make it so more players actually report them.
And again, STOP HURTING the real players with things that do not work.