Originally Posted by
MarcusBrightleaf
Bravo, Evony!
Blaming the lag problems caused by your shoddy server equipment on the bots you want to remove from the game is a stroke of genious. Unfortunately anybody with a minute of experience in the technical field knows how false this is.
This is psuedo-propoganda at the very most, and is a very poor attempt at fixing bots. You know full well it will not, however it will keep the portion of your customer base threatening to leave over the botting quiet and make them think you care; most importantly, it will keep them spending coins.
What a shame you've had to ruin the game for two servers to pull this publicity stunt off, though.
You think wrong.
It won't be.
There's at least five mainstream bots that are free.
If botting is such an enormous problem that it overwhelms the servers, how could it be the minority causing it? It is easy to think that, and nobody blames you, this is a very clever way of Evony basically fobbing everyone demanding mass bannings off by making them think they're doing something about it.
Unfortunately people who understand how security, captchas, coding, etc works, know that this will fix absolutely nothing.
The issues lie in the fundementals of the game. The game is poorly designed, and it only encourages people to bot. If you take away the botters, you will still have people willing to throw $30k into a new server in the space of a few hours just to be the first with instant pults. These are as game breaking as bots apparently are.
Just to reiterate, by the way, botting is not causing this lag. Evony's poor hardware is what causes it.
Anyone who works in the field will tell you the same thing.