[GI] So botting is not against the rules anymore?

The last post from support about banned accounts is now more than a year ago. Not only that, the main post for House Rules now is "Pushing penalties." So it appears that we have gone beyond tolerating botters to actually helping them.. is that what I'm interpreting here? If DO isn't going to do something about actually removing cheaters, then give the rest of us the opportunity to pop their drones.. stop penalizing players who actually are paying and contributing to the game. Is support really not smart enough to realize that when you allow the cheaters to undermine the economic fundamentals of a game, the game dies. As this one is doing rapidly. I've been paying and playing on US West since 2008 and it's on life support. Maybe your plan is just to milk it along to squeeze every last penny out of those that remain rather than growing a game by enforcing the rules YOU put in place. If you are going to encourage cheaters, and that is what you are doing, then allow the rest of us to interact with those ships in any way we see fit.

 

If everyone switched to playing as free as I do, maybe they would rethink the BOT issue, but most of the Botters are also Paying, and that is a lot of players from what I see.

 

Any third party software, including ''botting'' is against the TOS.

Closing as answered.