[Official] Bots There has been a large number of topics about botting recently. This is an issue that is very annoying to players, and it's understandable for people to have remarks and complaints about them. However, there are some facts about bots and how Ankama deals with them that is getting lost from topic to topic. Therefore, this topic has been created as a central place for information about bots and remarks/suggestions about the issue.

All other topics about bots will be either closed or merged into this one.

Here is information from Support:



From a moderator's perspective, we ban hundreds of bots (that includes the farming and hunting bots, not just the spamming bots) every day. But the people who run these bots do so for a purpose that is beyond entertainment. Unlike the moderators (who donate their time to try to improve the community), botting is their paying job. Running bots keeps their families fed and pays for their home. They are not discouraged by being banned once or twice. There are entire companies that pay their workers to do nothing but create new accounts for these bots and to train them all day long, which is why it seems like they never stop multiplying. Even with a dozen paid mods working non-stop on each server (with over 30 servers, that would bankrupt Ankama quite quickly to pay them!), there would probably still be bots around. The mod team is working every day to decrease the bots in game, and, as Sato stated above, Ankama is working on coding solutions as well.

With all that said, bots are still annoying. Go ahead and post your suggestions and thoughts here.

-Wish