Judaism wrote:I have yet to see anyone banned for it.
I'm not exactly sure why you think you would be privy to such things. Here are the simple facts on the matter:
#1: Botting is illegal and players get banned and I have nuked bases for less.
#2: Players trigger botting alerts constantly. Here is a big "offender" of doing the same thing over and over again in fairly routine time increments. As should be obvious this is for comedic value as Darwoth frequently triggers my bot alerts and does not bot.
As many players are aware, I will visit players who flag sending repetitive things to the server, and in the event I find a 'robot' as in nobody behind the terminal, they are banned.
#3: Not a single player in this thread has successfully reported a player who is botting. So while I appreciate the witch hunt. If players cared, and/or the problem was "that" serious, they could simply PM me as they witness said actions, and I could swiftly banstick the offenders. Fortunately, nobody reliably points to this absue nor is it reliably witnessed despite being tracked.