Ok, here is my theory as to why we have bots…
RARE ITEMS… that’s it, thats all.
Think about it if there were NO rare items if Vubbe Blood, Shredded cloth and Panto Spearheads etc all dropped at a reasonable rate people would not feel the need to use a bot to get the item. If these items were not super rare people would also not be selling them for outrageously high silver, which in turn reduces the need for people to purchase silver from the silver sellers. Limit the maximum that ANY item can be sold for (only after increasing the drop rates of rare items, obviously) to, maybe, $500k silver?Allow for tokens however to have a max of $1m, this will equal the sell price of silver by silver sellers, which appears to be anything from $3-$9 depending on the server for 1m., which is inline with token prices.
Attempts to report bots and silver sellers seem to be ineffective to say the least. So instead of trying to stick a bandaid over the end result, lets try preventing the cut.
So…
a) increase drop rates of rare items which decreases the need for silver to buy them from market, decreases the use of bots to farm the item AND decreases the need to buy silver from sellers to purchase the item.
b) cap silver prices on items which decreases the need to farm silver or buy silver from silver sellers.
I honestly don’t believe anything will stop bots or silver sellers. There will always be those lazy players who just wont do their own farming for items and silver nor will we ever get rid of silver sellers for similar reasons.
Opinions?