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    Like many others I echo the sentiments of the OP. I began seriously botting just after the march glitch was patched, and almost immediately began to like the game less and less. Massive armies made time commitment useless, the social aspect of the game started to disappear and worst of all coiners gained an even larger advantage then what they had before. I still remember going around in the same pattern every night and killing all my reds scouts because the lack of massive heroes wouldn't allow them to rebuild their scouts fast enough to hold up against my 125k waves ... 'Work' and dedication paid off in the good old days, as you could compete on a server without spending, and better yet teamwork and organizational skills were highly valued.

    I still stand by my statement from two years ago that bots are necessary for evony to continue to milk this cow, but they have killed the game not only for me, but for countless others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MapQuest View Post
    Unfortunately its not just evony. I played diablo 2 which ended up in nothing but bots, d3 already has bots. I have a few freeinds that play similar games and say there are bots there. A few other freinds tell me giant games like World of Warcraft have bots and they are on the rise. Its just the way the entire gaming community is going unfortunately. soon games will just release them in launch

    I don't understand what fun people get out of it. No thinking, no real planning just push a button and click click. Wonder how they keep from being bored,maybe by smashing little guys with their 10 billion man armies

    I used to be pretty good at timing attacks, sometimes down to one sec. and a few rare time's I manage to have two or more wavs land at the same time. But all they do it push a button and presto all wavs and all troops sent and all land at the same time.

    Oh well, it's Evony future I suppose

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    Just like everyone else I miss the good old days back when I thought workers were useful in attacks :P, never would have thought a SB to be effective, never would have dreamed about -100mil/hour let alone -1bil or even higher. This game used to be a fun challenge and you actually had to work at keeping your army fed and be online to defend/save your city but now........well you guys all pretty much covered it.

    I miss what this game used to be...if only we could go back to those days.
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    Default Noooooooo. :(

    You guys are making me rethink my decision to come out of retirement. I left the game more than 2 years ago, when bots were starting to take off, but we still kicked butt without them. I plan on rejoining my origional alliance and if I find that they are all bots, as a founding member and first 10, I will be forced to start a new alliance, where bots and multiple alts get kicked. See if we can try to reclaim a little dignity and class in a world of cheats. If nothing else the social aspect would improve from the way you guys are discribing it's current incarnaton.
    -Freyrson, a founding member of FTW ss66 (formerly s110)

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    Quote Originally Posted by 6batboy View Post
    Just like everyone else I miss the good old days back when I thought workers were useful in attacks :P, never would have thought a SB to be effective, never would have dreamed about -100mil/hour let alone -1bil or even higher. This game used to be a fun challenge and you actually had to work at keeping your army fed and be online to defend/save your city but now........well you guys all pretty much covered it.

    I miss what this game used to be...if only we could go back to those days.
    the good old days
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    Quote Originally Posted by Freyrson View Post
    You guys are making me rethink my decision to come out of retirement. I left the game more than 2 years ago, when bots were starting to take off, but we still kicked butt without them. I plan on rejoining my origional alliance and if I find that they are all bots, as a founding member and first 10, I will be forced to start a new alliance, where bots and multiple alts get kicked. See if we can try to reclaim a little dignity and class in a world of cheats. If nothing else the social aspect would improve from the way you guys are discribing it's current incarnaton.
    Good luck being competitive without bots.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whinebaby View Post
    Good luck being competitive without bots.
    That's the attitude that makes eliminating the problem impossible.
    If you play within the rules you can't but if enough people played within the rules then something could be done about it.

    P.S yea i miss the days when hushed rumors were spread about massive 100k archer waves... the joy of being a noob
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    I've been around Evony since Server 4 came online, before the bots.
    It was extremely fun!
    I've bounced around different servers, took a break after bots came out.
    Finally re joined about 8-9 months ago on WN4.
    To get big, you need a bot on that server. I have one on my computer, and I have poked around with it. But, I will not run it all the time.
    I really hope that Evony can get rid of the bots and have the big botters actually work for that -102mill food production like the rank 6 guy on WN4, a non botter!

    PS: I'm new to the forum here. Hello.

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    @spock Hi
    Welcome back to the game and forum. Yea Evony prebot was undoubtedly more fun gaming and socially. Until more people realize that and stop using them it will remain a game lacking any real excitement like it used to. So my only advise to ya is be a martyr, do it without a bot even if it means you are disadvantaged you will probably have more fun tho
    "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

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    Yeah that's it. The team aspect of the game has vanished. To a certain degree we had to specialize at one time. Matt builds the phracts/cav, GameEnder builds the fat cutter layers, Downlow builds the scouts, I build the arch hammers. WE worked as a team to eliminate big targets. Bots allow you to do all this yourself.
    When WE defended someone under attack there was always a small lump that your mate would be good enough on the gates. Now folks will just shrug and say it will truce at 98 or 5. It's rare you see folks backing one another now.
    The game became something a child could cut and paste and be considered "good" if not a "great" player.

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