Zou wrote:Odditown doesn't have bots. Where did you get this idea?
And pigs don't wallow in mud.... Power gamers do what they do. Nobody should be ashamed of it. Now, if there's a declaration that anyone caught botting will be banned and characters/accounts wiped... well, that's a different story. I'd hide that stuff as best as possible if I were to do it. I'm the kind of guy that plays within the rules. If you don't explicitly disallow it, it's fair game.
As far as the main idea here: I'm all for ideas that discourage or make writing bots more complex. Letting fields sit fallow is just a good game mechanic, I think, that if done right, can provide benefits to the player (could harvest the "wild grasses" for hay) as well as add some realism to the farming system.