Make gathering nodes dynamic, so every player can pick it. Meaning if someone else mines a node I can still mine it and then it disperse.
Technically may have not been possible 20 years ago, and it is an RP game after all xD~
And increase gold earned from quests by a massive amount, bots don’t quest 
Just hand out long bans on gold buyers. People need to find out gold buying is bad. When gold buying decline, # of bots will decline as well.
Like I said here to a similiar “brilliant” idea:
It would very likely tank the commodity market, bots would be able to farm it endlessly as each is a different “player” and if quests were to give massive amounts of gold, that means even without bots doing it (eventually) economy becomes significantly inflated as well since there’s no sufficient goldsinks.
SOM/SOD herbalism/mining where you get alot more materials/chance of rarer materials from normal nodes would’ve been a good addition for this release.
Right now the economy encourages gold buying (yeah yeah who the hell flasks/pots/elixirs for molten core save me the blogposts)
Continue your chain of thought, it would tank the economy and then what would happen? You need some form of ‘adjustment’ as the reward from gathering drops and reward from questing increase what happens to bots ?
Remember the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect different results. Banning GDKP was one step, whats next because its not getting any better!
Genious move for multiboxers or a synchronised group to get a zillion herbs/ores 
Won’t ruin the economy or make the mafias grow at all. (This statement may contain irony)
It would flood the market with mats, which in turn, would drop the price to where they would be, had bots not cornered the market?
So, if the choice was between what we have now (high prices) Vs low price, which is better?
Remove the incentive and you will see less bots running around farming?
There are many other MMOs that have dynamic gathering nodes, look at the economy there, it works.
I’m not saying any one solution works, but just like GDKP got banned only after LFG was being spammed non stop, you can move the bot problem to a place where players are not being slapped with it in the face non stop.
Remember me the player I don’t bother to go gather what I need to craft not because I don’t want to, but because I can not. Allow dynamic re-spawn so I know I can go spend the time and come back with mats to craft.
What that will do it motivate me to make crafting alts, for all the proff I want!
I don’t play to amass ingame G. I play to have fun, and this - not competing for mats - would ruin much otf the fun for me.
I’d like all bots to be removed and the nodes to stay tagged as now, please.
Just make gathering resources a CAPTCHA. Good bye bots.
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