EAC is honestly a joke. You can’t get an Orichalcum node on a high pop server because there is literally a bot in EVERY spot there’s a node. Literally every single spot, I’m happy to show you since you all like to play the game and find bugs now.
The economy is absolutely stupid right now in terms of high-end mining. I’m sick of wasting my time running routes to find nothing. It’s literally a waste of time to even think about farming it. So figure out what to do with bots (AKA look at the actual reports of players instead of using a bulls*** automatic system that hurts players more than helps) or add more nodes in the world so it drives the price down.
IN game GM would be a good start. They would get notified about a report for bot like behavior they could teleport to player invisible and watch for 5-10 to determine if bot or real actual player doing it. Bots are so EASY to spot its disgusting.
But they would rather increase gear score and add a new collectible to the game then actually address problems that destroy a PLAYER BASED ECONOMY SYSTEM
Now with no travel costs it became even worse in Barri. I was seeing ppl standing by the nodes all day now they became mobile. Even remote single nodes are mined. You cant compete with someone who play to live.
God save these ppl.
This issue will never go away unless NW gets random spawns for resources. Poeple running bots are smarter than some people think. Catching bots and punishing them was never a solution. Rework the way resources are spawned and change the rules of farming, is what must be done.