Quote Originally Posted by Salvo View Post
Rather than trying to keep the botters out, why not fix the problems with the game so there would be no need for botting? Forcing everyone to go back to manual farming after years of farming free fun will just drive everyone away. Have you looked out there... there are thousands of games. Evony isn't that special.

The manual repetitive tasks just take any fun out of the game. So here is a suggestion for a new direction to the game that would eliminate the issues your having.

1) Eliminate NPC farming. No one is going to pay money to sit there doing the same clicks hundreds of times a day.. day after day. (in fact they pay other people to come up with a way around it which is why the bots are common. All that is revenue that should be going to Evony but because you designed some aspects of the game so poorly, people spend it with the bot people instead. Until Evony realizes that people won't pay to sit there and NPC farm all day manually to keep an army going, then any attempts to fix the real problem are futile)
2) Instead of food,wood,iron and stone give each account a budget or salary cap.
3) Assign a cost to each troop type.
4) Players can build any army they want as long as they stay under salary cap. As troops die new troops can be hired to replace them.
5) This would level the playing field, eliminate the need for 100s of alts farming non-stop, eliminate the repetitive tasks and give the game a new, fresh aspect that focuses on strategy,teamwork and combat.
6) kill all current armies and make everyone start fresh
7) leave heroes alone.

Just limit troops to 1 mill and and food to 1 bill, and 100k in rally to send on attack but cap it to 5 waves max, no need for alts then!!