Peroxide, I really think you should bot. Lemme share with you my botting expereince.
At the very start, I bought bot + premium for about $14
I kept botting with month about 5 moneymakers and my main account (It had my mage + my pacc maker). When the month was over, I had enough gold to pay for xeno & premium with gold and also having some gold for my characters.
As time goes on, my makers got higher level and starting getting more gold (especially at coryms) even my mage started profitting at necros.
Now, I have about 8kk and a 4 levels 80-100 knights. I did that in about 3 months without starting with good scripts or having much expereince in Tibia overall.