About that. Its not true that Innova would crash before us for having less bots.
I remember once years ago when they wiped hard all AA and manor farmers.
Prices went sky hight but that didint had any impact on anyone. Why? Because everyone was able to farm for their selfs.
And as many, I was one who also bought seeds and went down to the free catacombs, got more than I needed and had lots of fun without bots.
Bots is THE thing that always ****** L2 and will kill it.
If you think it all trought, you'll see it.
Please don't misunderstand me, I am certainly not advocating to tolerate bots so that the economy is supplied with crafting materials. Botters must die, adena buyers must die.
My point in that post was that everybody who claims to make 20 million adena per day can only do this because thousands of bots are killing millions of monsters during that day, procuring the adena for which he or she is then selling spoiled key materials or whatever. Everybody who proudly posts to have crafted so-and-so many pieces of equipment since Lindvior went live could only do this because thousands of bots are killing millions of monsters to procure the materials which then are sold in the Auction House. Anybody who has not spoiled every last coil of Orichalcum Wire, every last R-Gem himself is a cheater who is benefiting from bots.
In Korea, where they do have a considerable number of bots since they went free to play up to lvl 85, the economy is collapsing right now, 7 months after Lindvior went live over there on October 31. In order to boost the item supply, there are at present two events where crafting materials are fed into the servers from the outside:
http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=1048&start=450#p22365
This means first of all that the Lindvior economy does not work. And the fact that the developers are feeding additional materials into the servers from the outside means that they consider this only as a temporary setback, fixable with band aid, and do not intend to increase the drop rates.
As Yunalesca said, it WON'T get better. Ye who enter here, abandon all hope :D