Hi everyone, Minor nitpick regarding the new DoH/DoL content here.
Normally these things come with a large amount of very expensive, exclusive items that cost a premium earned currency to buy. The prices of these are very high first, then crater and eventually stabilize some. Things like mounts, dyes, emotes, outfits, ect.
I went to sell a spare cosmosuit outfit I won and lo and behold the price cratered more than expected. And there was a single retainer selling TWENTY of them. And below them another selling fourteen more! After some digging around websites and talking to people, the source was found.
The issue is, this time around there are people mass farming cosmocredits and Lunar Credits using a third party tool to craft recipes automatically. It abuses the macro system to automatically calculate and perfect recipes based on gear and runs it. It auto eats for you to refresh buffs. It auto repairs with dark matter when gear drops low. Hell it auto extracts materia on soulbond.
My question is simple. How is this allowed? How is this any different from running a bot to do combat? It's still content. There are people sitting in corners of the moon at the base 24/7 just farming these crafting recipes over and over. I even saw one person hit the achievement for 500000 contribution points on Friday!
I don't have a solution for this sadly that isn't just "Make Crafting actions unusable in macros." But something really should be done.
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Normally these things come with a large amount of very expensive, exclusive items that cost a premium earned currency to buy. The prices of these are very high first, then crater and eventually stabilize some. Things like mounts, dyes, emotes, outfits, ect.
I went to sell a spare cosmosuit outfit I won and lo and behold the price cratered more than expected. And there was a single retainer selling TWENTY of them. And below them another selling fourteen more! After some digging around websites and talking to people, the source was found.
The issue is, this time around there are people mass farming cosmocredits and Lunar Credits using a third party tool to craft recipes automatically. It abuses the macro system to automatically calculate and perfect recipes based on gear and runs it. It auto eats for you to refresh buffs. It auto repairs with dark matter when gear drops low. Hell it auto extracts materia on soulbond.
My question is simple. How is this allowed? How is this any different from running a bot to do combat? It's still content. There are people sitting in corners of the moon at the base 24/7 just farming these crafting recipes over and over. I even saw one person hit the achievement for 500000 contribution points on Friday!
I don't have a solution for this sadly that isn't just "Make Crafting actions unusable in macros." But something really should be done.
Continue reading...