Quote Originally Posted by TentPig View Post
Or, more to the point... let's say a player can actually play evony 3 to 4 hours a day. He bots 24/7 farming for food for his army. Now he can't bot. What's he going to do w/ that 3-4 hours?
a. downgrade his army size to what his one account can farm, or
b. increase the number of his alts so he can send out that many more farming waves within a 3-to-4-hour period.
Sorry, I don't see option (a) happening, although, from previous comments by Evony reps over the years in this forum, that's exactly what Evony believes will happen. A senior Evony executive one stated that Evony never intended people to have army sizes which currently exist.
Adding to this. Yep, Evony never did intend armies to become as big as they did. But then did they honest expect a war game to stay at a certain level regarding troops. No matter how interesting a game is, if theres no progress that can happen for players, no bigger targets or no ability to to produce a certain number of troops, then the game will fizzle out after a month or two.

That's why botting started in the first place IMO, they couldn't feed what they had so far so they botted their alt's to produce enough food to keep the game going.


Quote Originally Posted by Morgan le Fay View Post

This new captcha thing being tested IMO a good thing. Reducing the bots will reduce multi accounting and so on. Don't get me wrong I hate captcha's, but if they improve the game for all then I'll grin and bear it. Just make sure they are solvable and don't pop up every 5mins lol.
Davemata made a statement many months back he wanted to eliminate the reasons for botting, not punish those who do it. But now, instead of eliminating the reasons, they're basically capping peoples gameplay via a captcha that can interrupt vital timings in an attempt to stop botters... but isn't this just punishing botters?

I mean don't get me wrong, I don't bot and botters can be incredibly annoying, especially when they've looped trash at me and I have to sit and rebuild walls for hours on end, but I think Evony's approach to preventing it is all wrong.