i hate to break it to you but constant use of third party scripts by multiple users isn't the reason to bot, it the reason for the lag
i hate to break it to you but constant use of third party scripts by multiple users isn't the reason to bot, it the reason for the lag
Wow that was an eloquent well thought out response and there is a lot of truth in what you say.
I have always said bots came to being originally simply for the farming. They evolved since then but who wants to come to a war game but have to farm for hundreds and hundreds of hours in order that they get to build an army to have a quick fight then go back to another 1000 hours farming.
Evony should have realised that very few people have the endless hours required to do this therefore in order to become competitive and have more time for things like A LIFE, the only way was to bot and others drawn into it because most other people were botting.
I detest botting and personally I think they took the skill away from this game, now it is not the best strategists that come out on top it is whomever can write the best scripts.
This is not the road that Evony wanted this game to go down but it did and that is the reality, and I very much doubt there is any way they can go back.
I mean what can they offer people to stop botting and how would anyone know that the next person has stopped even if they did manage to come up with some master stroke to coax people to stop.
I disagree that you need to bot to be competitive in the game.
For the longest time, I didn't bot at all, I did run multiples but not on bot, just using the resources and moving it manually to a drop city. In fact for 18 months, I didn't farm at all, cities were sustained by selling resources for food in farm towns and my warcity just continually bled and would survive by holidaying, plundering and handouts. Coming from Server 5, a beta server, it was only in February 2012 that I started botting and never with my main. A friend of mine quit and gave me all his accounts, in excess of 10 of them, he provided scripts/goals to run them so just copy and pasted them and let them run.
I didn't see any real improvement to my army size during the time, it was already massive without botting. It did mean I wouldn't need to ask for food from various members as I now had a source of my own. I can't say I enjoyed botting especially, it slowed down my computer, that plus a busier RL and other external factors brought me to quitting in July. 5 months of botting in 3 years(and much of that was spent in holiday). I was arguably the strongest player on my server for much of that time.
I agree with the suggestion Evony needs to timetable a botting ban if they're serious about curbing it. Give an amnesty for those multi-ing and those botting, providing them a chance to stop and after the date agreed upon, suspensions for first offence and none of that half resources/troops stuff. Reduce to 10%. Next offence should mean permaban.
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Right, but how many hours were you online a day Kiki? Not everybody has the privileged to be online nearly all day.
Most people have to work 9-5 where they can't be on Evony, and then they come home to a family and only get a few hours every night/morning where they can realistically play evony. Now they love the game, the teamwork, the attacking, the strategy.. but without bots, there is just no way they can play. Evony bans bots and they lose their favorite game and evony loses the dough they spent on the game.
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Rather than just for the farming, I think the fact that a bot can be online for nearly 24 hours a day, everyday, is the root factor for bots now. It might have begun just to sustain farming, but it has now come to encompass the whole usage of an account. By this I mean an account can now automatically farm, build, defend, truce, and perform almost every other activity that a real player can do, without any player being on the account them self. Because of this, aspects of the game such as comforting could be abused to the degree that there would be almost no way to overcome them.
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**** people like you make me sick .... bribing evony not to get rid of bots or they lose your money ..... learn to play the game well and you wont need the help of a bot simple as this branding youself as a bot player wow nice job when you have more army than sombody else due to bots an you zero them makes you feel good because you can run a bot on your pc .... you take all the fun out of the game for every1 else and also you take the chalange out the game for yourself ... and 1 more thing when i player who does not bot zeros you you must feel like a complete retard !
Anyway i have just come back to this game an i will make it clear how to beat botting players without being a botter the most retarded cheapest self degrading thing you could have ever done as a player is become a bot player just to keep up..... learn how to blodddy que troops till you know your be back on it aint hard tards
Last edited by StarDusTT; 10-07-2012 at 11:48 AM.
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I remember this part of it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Professor X
I'll be starting-up an alliance called XMEN, which I have successfully ran on several servers before. Expect to see us pretty high on the honour table early on in the server's life as we generally attack strong and fast.
If anyone is interested in joining us, then feel free to add me on Skype and I'll add you into our Skype chat where I'll be sharing with you all my strategies and fast-track build orders for coiners and non-coiners.
There is where u said u would be #1 btw
Like i said I hate bots. I hated when i started to use one. I do honestly wish evony would enforce their rules. But like i said they dont, they wont and if they do they will kill their game. SO I joined the bandwagon got me a bot and got competetive again.
Last edited by Buzz Light Year; 10-07-2012 at 11:52 AM.
Fan of BOTS!!! ( Auto-Bots Of Course )
Fan of BOTS!!! ( Auto-Bots Of Course )
^ Ha you beat me to it. I was trying to find the post, but couldn't find it.
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