lmao. RO is the only game that doesn't sell SP items in your hardware store. Why does this sound so absurd to you? Having these items dropped from monsters only benefits bot users, and you know it. Waiting for a definitive solution for bots is the same as believing in Santa Claus
I don't know if any official servers sells it at NPC shops. But if it doesn't sell, must be for a reason, right? Or do you really think that NO ONE, NO DEVELOPER thought about implementing at shops? (And if some official server sells it, it must be analyzed at what state of patch the server is before using it as excuse to implement in here)
Adding strawberries sold from NPC for 3-5k each would not change anything. Strawberries were vending for 1.5-3.5k for the entire duration of the server until 2 weeks ago.
The only difference now would be the zeny used to purchase the strawberries would be deleted and not put into the hands of botters. Anything the market relies on from bots should instead be sold by NPC for this reason.
"Mastela weighs 3, slim white potion weighs 2." (<- i -_- up quote)
NPC selling items should never be better or even close of crafted items (speaking of pure potters).
Do you want to sell strawberry at shop? Make it weight the double as it is. It is very simple to say to put some item to sell at npc and buy zeny from zeny sellers extremely CHEAP. I prefer
Some math to you to analyze if what yous aid is really fair with pure potters
HP ITEM
Mastela Fruit
400 - 600 = 500 AVG
Condensed White Potion
325 - 405 = 365 (+50% ranked) = 547 AVG
Mastela Fruit = 9% Less Healing than a RANKED CONDENSED WHITE POTION
SP ITEM
Blue Potion
40 ~ 60 = 50 AVG (3.33 Points of healing per weight)
Ranked = 75 AVG (5 Points of healing por weight)
Weight: 15
Strawberry
16 ~ 28 = 22 AVG (11 Points of healing per weight)
Weight: 2