This will probably get me banned or suspended or something because it will fall under the realm of dissent and the mods enjoy dropping things down the memory hole, but I think this little gem bears some public notice:
From the terms that you implicitly agree to by playing the game, section 17 line 1:
Now, I'm pretty sure that flash doesn't allow the developers to do any such thing, perhaps a flash expert might be able to shed some light on that. In any case, this is not acceptable, may even be illegal, and is yet another reason for me to quit playing this game. Evony has made it clear that they are not interested in keeping their user base happy, they are fine with keeping afloat by new resgistrations and not customer retention.WHEN RUNNING, THE GAME MAY MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER'S RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (RAM) AND/OR CPU PROCESSES FOR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAMS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY WITH EVONY. AN "UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM" AS USED HEREIN SHALL BE DEFINED AS ANY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE THAT, WHEN USED SIMULTANEOUSLY OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE GAME, WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 1, 2 OR 9. IN THE EVENT THAT THE GAME DETECTS AN UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM, REGAN MERCANTILE US, LLC MAY (a) COMMUNICATE INFORMATION BACK TO REGAN MERCANTILE US, LLC, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE ACCOUNT NAME, DETAILS ABOUT THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM DETECTED, AND THE TIME AND DATE THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WAS DETECTED; AND/OR (b) EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR THE EULA, WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE USER.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The single REASON that you have a problem with bots is that the game mechanics are BROKEN and you BREAK them further by nerfing medals. Until you get it through your heads that bots are a response to the arms race and the inability to get medals you will continue to have a problem with them. There were about 100 great suggestions on the bot thread which Wildo decided needed to go to the memory hole because people were complaining and you don't tolerate dissent or complaints on this forum. What you, the Evony mods and Devs are missing here is that you are trying to fix the issue by policing the symptoms instead of addressing the root cause, which for clarity are the GAME MECHANICS not the bot users.
If more people read the terms, i think you would have a lot less people playing. Go ask Sony about what happens with spyware.



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