Quote Originally Posted by Naiven View Post
Evony knows that all real players on older servers use bots. Their claims otherwise are non-sense. I was a long hold out, always said I would quit before I used one, but then it reached the point of quit or use it, and I started. Slapping old servers with a sudden actual enforcement, as you say, would be to immediately kill those servers and drive away most of those players. Worse, some of the more extreme of those players would simply go to new servers and do everything in their power to ruin those servers, and they have in the past proven quite resourceful in doing just that.

Reduction of the database size by eliminating dead cities and worthless data would be minor improvement and would certainly help, as would elimination of worthless items that cannot be used, but only minor as compared to the massive communication requirements from massive numbers of bots as compared to live players. That is why my suggestion remains to give us new servers that are 100% enforcement of the TOS, meaning no alts, no bots, no selling accounts, no hacked heroes, etc. On the old servers, find partial solutions to try to get things somewhat under control and let the servers then play out and slowly die.

I personally will reset my accounts on old servers and leave them if I feel there are new servers that rules will actually be enforced on and play there. Suddenly trying to show zero tolerance on servers that management made almost no efforts to enforce them for years, and allowed violation of the TOS to be the standard rather than the exception is not reasonable. And even if they successfully did disable all bots, all the time, and even after the massive armies starved, that still would leave grossly inflated heroes and resource stashes that were gained via botting, not the real game. So leave those servers with limited bandwidth, and those that want to try to play there with choking lag can continue until those servers are not paying for themselves.
I agree with you. Evony makes it strict on the new stuff, and finds a way to slowly decrease the usage on old servers (evony can't just up and shut down, backlash and possible charge backs could be detrimental) but they should work to decreasing people on old servers and making new servers bot free. My suggestions on how to do it are on page 7 so I won't repost.

Also if troop sizes or resources are capped at a certain point (especially if it's a smaller value) people will just build up a ton of accounts that are that size and have alts feeding them, not really a solution to those that suggest it....