Quote Originally Posted by SunnyG View Post
Although I do appreciate Dawnseeker and his efforts to keep us updated on the status of s160 (and he has, in my opinion, been the only Evony rep to ever do so in a timely manner regarding any issue for any server), I do not think that installing captcha will help anything.

It does NOT stop botting, as there are now bots that are equipped to solve captchas and yes, many are using them and paying the fee to do so. It will not stop the lag, as evidenced by other servers where captcha was installed (my personal experience being ss61). The lag was worse there after captcha was installed so I left the server and a very good account there.

What captcha WILL do is interrupt parts of the game where there can be NO interruptions: timing attack waves, working the gates if your defending an attacker who has doorstepped you 1 mile away and you need to open and close gates just right on certain waves, interrupting farming, interrupting if you are capping a NPC10 (we all know if there is too much of a gap in the waves to one it will regenerate and kill subsequent waves), not to mention the annoyance it causes when it pops up anywhere from every 2 to 3 minutes, or 30 mins, or hour. It is random. If I log on after this current maintenance and indeed see captcha on the server, I am leaving the server right then.

So many other servers have many many more accounts and botters than this server, and they run just fine.

Perhaps by installing captcha, half of s160 will quit, therefore reducing the lag since the player rate is reduced by 50%. Then it will be quiet, boring, and lag free for the remaining few. A war game with no one to kill, gotta be tons of fun right?
I'll give ya props on Dawnseeker - and the rest is dead on.

Just wish I hadn't pzzed away $500 on this server - easily. The old bait and switch about to be installed on us.