As topic says

They are still new to me as well..

Few things...if you're newb you can generally get an idea by checking news and seeing them be farmed without retalling(most humans would go ape with this kind of abuse).

Also, bots are programmed to be around 240 CS...you'll start to recognize this if you look for it. It may be a few CS's under if they've been hit.

Bots have a high Turns Used because they run frequently on express. Bots don't sit on 300 turns...that's someone playing lazy, playing a late start, or waiting for some doofus to landgrab them for low land so they can retal later for more

Bots don't get tech outside of business/residential/military/their strat tech. So if you see things like weapons, warfare, etc. it's a clue they're not a bot.

Is the naming scheme the same as well? I havn't paid attention to bots in a couple months.

- They never join GDI
- They have odd military makeup.
- They NEVER attack
- Their names are generated from random words.

Watch the vets, they're pretty good at spotting... if a country is getting farmed there is usually good reason for it.

Using this set as an example the following countries are most likely bots:
80, 42, 102, 52

Yes, all valid. The goofy naming is probably the most obvious, but sometimes mine are goofy too, so make sure you check news and spy lol

good stuff!

I've found all of that to be true as well.

One other thing I forgot to mention is the naming scheme. From my experience if it's a single word country name it's capitalized. If it's two words, both are always capitalized.

I could be wrong on that though... there might be circumstances were that doesn't happen.

I've always found them to have 3 word names

They can... But they certainly have 1 and 2 as well

I saw a bot with a few weapons tech so it might be improved there

Yeah definitely the ones getting farmed like mad are bots... lol. If I got farmed like that I'd start a multi empire and AB you to death.

Think KoA once pretended to be a bot, just so he'd get to suicide on someone.