[ZatuneParticipant]

I agree with Talith, automating the mb is a terrible idea which will be damaging to the community as a whole.

The marketboard is already in a pretty bad shape when you are trying to sell things, adding an automation feature on Miqo would only make it worse for everyone : casual players and serious crafters.
Even with only a small undercut value, the automated aspect means that anyone who is not using the tool is at a very serious disadvantage because inherently the marketboard is a competitive environment.

It would lead to :
(1) an unhealthy situation where you are struggling to sell things the legit way as your opponents are cheating
(2) an increase of RMT activity because people struggle to make gils
(3) more people looking for mb bots to be able to compete, aggravating the situation exponentially and leading to a higher risk of SE reacting accordingly on bots and 3rd party tools

Yes, I know some tools already to that. I’m also aware SE recently acted on it and issued a mass banwave on them.
There are communities documenting botting behavior, who organize and provide mass reports to SE.
Everyone is monitoring the situation.
You don’t want to add another instance of this problem and make SE add protections to their game, destroying both plugins and bots, because they can 100% do it if the situation becomes very bad.

Bots should help automate some of the boring to make the game more enjoyable. They should not deteriorate the whole experience and make non-botting players miserable due to the lazyness of a few ones.

[ZatuneParticipant]

I vote against too. These kind of events are already easy, you don’t have to rush everything in one day, and they (the game’s dev) made it varied enough that you can get those tomes in many dungeons, raids, or even in pvp to give more life to it. If you have blue mage, you can zerg it in no time. If you are curious, Rival Wings is a fun way to get them too. You can level your alt classes or collect glamour while doing it.

Given the amount of effort required, I don’t see any benefits of allocating Miqo team ressources to a temporary event which is already easy enough to do in a legit way and offer a lot of choice in how to partake in it.

In my opinion, bots should help automate some of the boring, and not do everything in this game to compensate extreme lazyness.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by  Zatune.

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