There are ways to defeating the bot. Reset is the bot's 1 weakness. attack at reset as mr bot stops in anticipation of reset sweep and u can rob it easily. that would include feeder cities which are not armed enough and therefore gates are set to close. of course main cities are armed; but if u basically know what he has; u send waves timed to hit in the 20 min window reset gives u. trust me; done right. bot guy never sees it coming and he wont know which city to defend until after reset. expect hate mail; so its only for the pirate type person. it is piracy afterall. LOL In a main city; he will lose troops if he leaves gates open. In a feeder; he loses either his farm teams or his stuff. if his main closes gates; then u only have to contend with breaking walls; then march trans with cav. no matter how much abs he has; it wont be enough. the trick..is to get within a certain distance that he dont see u. then launch attack at a certain time just b4 reset. Evony already knows what time as a certain player has made a career doing it. A career of infamy. range and what u send is the key. land within reset window..undetected; and u have him. U ask for a level playing field; I got that for you. Its my gift; but its also a curse. Some players either dont like losing troops or dont like losing rezzies. and even some others that dont like getting robbed by a player 1/100th his prez either.
Skill wins wars; not massive armies. Evony will do what is right in its due time. But while we wait; they are already laughing at how many players sleep at reset and get robbed.
I will be reviled in pointing this out. its cool; its a game. But a computer program is no match for a human and never will. So death to the cylons. So say we all.