Dude, you need to get your logic right.
NCSoft wants subscriptions as income and that's why they don't ban bots. Players also want bots because there are things that you will never spend 3-4 hours to farm and bots can drive the price down. You are right. Does not matter how low or high the drop rate is, bots will always over-farm human players. But to keep the game flow, you have to learn to manage bots. I am really surprised that NCWest has not figured this out. In Korea, accounts are private assets and NCSoft cannot ban them. But here, it is not the case. To manage bots, you just simply need to manage their output in dollar terms. For example, you can check the kinah output from any accounts. Selectively and periodically ban some accounts. So that bots still make money and they come back but not in a speed that will quickly sink the game. Is that too hard for NCWest to do?
The issue of drop rate is that players get nothing out of farm. So players don't farm. Then no people in the field and pvpers cannot find anyone to fight. The map gone quiet and the game dead. On the other hand, there have been many craft updates in 2.0 and with no drop, players cannot even get their craft design, cannot get enough balaur materials to level their craft. So you have nothing to do in town as well. BT and Udas are boring and no drops as well. Why we want to login? we just login for dredge, siege and daily and we can log off. Again, the game is dead.
After this continues for a while, players wonder why they need to pay for subscription. Oh, by the way, one attraction of Siel Aura is to loot items and ironically there is no loot for everyone now. Why I need Siel Aura? You know what, at this point, NCWest is dead for the game because no income but obligation to provide service.
