Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
I think everyone needs to realize that captchas are not a silver bullet, and would probably be ineffective in reducing bot use unless we had them pop up every 5 minutes (which we're not going to do).

Everyone does realize that they wouldn't stop 100%, but everyone realizes it would stop ALOT. You would NOT need to have it pop up every 5 minutes or even randomly you simply need it to be a gatekeeper for attacks and upgrades, you want to send an attack? solve a simple captcha, sure it takes a little more time, but it's a necessary evil to ensure a semi-fair playing environment. Currently semi-fair has NOT been acheived. So your final statement is a gas:

Our current strategy is already paying off very well and we think it will continue to do so.
so you've evidently NOT been reading your own forums or noticing the "what about the rest of the cheaters" threads? Shutting down a couple of public bots is a good START, but we as customers EXPECT you to be doing that AND do be doing something about homebrew AND multi-account. These posts are so discouraging to our hopes of ever having an even semi cheat-free environment.