Exactly fix the issues causing the problem and it will make people alot more willing and accepting of not using a bot.....damn I wish I had the davemata quote of him saying this was what he was in favor of doing still lol
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Unfortunately, as the captcha cracking software becomes better, the captchas need to become more advanced. It gets to a point where in order to stop the captcha being broken, the captcha has to be very unfriendly to users. Evony's isn't even that advance, I can guarantee the bots will be able to read it within days.
Many websites are now removing captchas and using other, more undercover ways of catching spams out. Wouldn't work for Evony, but neither will a captcha; they just can't make the captcha too advanced or they are literally going to drive every player out of their game.
Maybe they will maybe they won't I think your projected forecast of days for the bots to get around the captcha is a little extreme. However, blaming Evony isn't the way to go, if you don't like the CAPTCHA blame the botters for forcing it on all of us for cheating in the first place.
So do I. Lemon and sugar on mine.
Read what I posted above. To be honest I believe it'll make it more difficult to bot. I'm not naive enough to think this is the end of 3rd party programs but it'll make it so much more difficult for the masses. A vast reduction in botting will improve this game ten fold.
Agree with you totally. When a new or a bug that's been patched which "helped" players we get a mass influx here on the forums complaining about how it will ruin the game for them. They threaten quitting, claiming money back and even suing. It also all calms down in a few days. I think it'll be great to get back to playing this game to how it should be played rather than ridiculously high troop numbers. More planning and stratgery, happy days.
What can I say. Look at your troops and work out what kills what. You do not need a war city stacked with a bill troops to win. I personally think a pony smack will do far more damage than any mech wave. If your're online a mech attack is the easiest thing to defend against-ponies are far more tricky especially combined in a combo.
As for farming, it was never intended for us to farm. It evolved that way from the players themselves so they could have bigger armies. Your're just going to have to play a different way rather than overkill attacks.
The simpliest answer is almost always right. So you wanna beat a bot and cant figure out how. Most people consider it a win if they can take someones resources. Most bots close gates on scout bombs.
So whats a scout bomb. 100k scouts nope, any attack with 51% scouts is considered a scout bomb. Gates close I send 51000 scouts 1k cavs 48k transporters. Bot closes the gates Ive already killed the walls I walk in and out all day long everyday with the resources. Geez that was hard. lol do people ever stop trying to think so hard and just see how simple is normaly the correct answer.
This is only because you have a single "best hero" that you use for troop training instead of having a high attack hero in each city that you have so that you don't have to shuffle the single hero around via scout everywhere.
If you do not have time, do not play.Quote:
they are forced out of lack of time.
It took me ten minutes to draft out on paper how to configure my software I use for work to scan Evony's captcha and figure out the letters and/or numbers in it. It would take a few hours to actually cofigure the script.
As soon as the bot developers figure out how to integrate this software into their software, the captcha is then completely obsolete. It will then only be the non-botters who enter it, and they'll still have the bots to deal with.
I blame nobody but Evony for the botting problem. When botting was new, it should have been dealt with then. Now it's spread like a virus across every server that they are virtually powerless to stop it without completely killing off their game.
Is it rewarding yes, still it is unfair to those that play within the rules. Yet think about those that play fair. Set aside time in busy day to get on farm to feed, do attacks. But only to find that their fields have been farmed by the botters who go at it non stop. Is that fair, what challenge is that.
Personally I am a panic in figuring out how to feed my armies in the future. I farm and look for botters to attack and take there food. They make great food distribution centers.
Yet I understand the need to clean it up. It is no longer a good game, its been a joke for awhile now.
It's free is nothing more then a lure. This game costs money, the free is nothing more then advertising lure. I would rather see it become a downloadable game and go to having to pay a one time entry fee to download the game say for 20. It eliminate the feeder and spam accounts or drastically reduce them. Of course the structure of purchasing additional items to enhance will remain the same.