Quote Originally Posted by gegger1957 View Post
Maybe a secondary login, only in Evony that bots couldn't read. Put it in the avatar, or somewhere. Then players would have to click and add another login to activate.
Just an idea.
But the bots should go, they're killing the game for everyone.
Bots send login passwords. Bots can send security codes when they are needed. They can interface systems to auto-solve captas that are completely unreadable to humans, so system like that make the game unplayable to people but the bots can continue as if nothing is wrong. IP bans kill people who do not understand such things as proxy hiding, but bots can be set up to do it automatically. I think bots can handle a secondary password just fine, better than people can.

Bots would be no issue if they did nothing but the menial tasks as the writers claim, but that is simply not the truth. They bypass rules, such as for a long time allowing people to double truce until Evony finally stopped that. That allow mass scanning of the map which is a designed limitation in the legal interface. They don't do the menial farming, they farm constantly 7x24 every day. They allow timed waves to be launched from multiple cities to all be launched at the same time and land in specific sequences at specific times, something that is not possible in the legal interface. Yes, I can time waves just fine in the web interface, but they cannot be launched at the same time, you can only launch 1 wave per minute that way per city, the bot can do hundreds. The bots can give audible attack warnings to wake you out of sleep. The bot captures system messages and reports them and saves them to give information about other people's activities that is not supposed to be available. They perform battle tactics that are a skill for players to learn and pull off, but most of the users do not even know it is happening. They garbage up the playing field with a stupid clutter of worthless npc's instead of human players to spar with. They do things like give information about heroes that the only legal way to know is to use game items. They are cheats, not tools. It embarrasses me to no end that I caved and started using one, and I want the freaking real game back.