I actually feel that the bot problem is a LOT better than what it was. Yes, there are still some botters. However, those bots cannot impact the economy as heavily as they were. When bots were in full force, soulstones were 12silver each. They are now around 33silver each. The huge change is greatly from NCsoft requiring small dragon certificates to to make soulstones from beans and those certificates are not farmable. You can only get 4 per day from doing 4 different dungeons.