Originally
posted by
Gerdler:
Ohh I forgot one major factor why I like the bots; People used to benefit so much from landfarms, still do on team every now and then. It is a problem to me both on the servers where its cheating and where it is not... if you have a landfarm on primary you might not be caught and therefore gain an unfair advantage. if you have a landfarm on team that a friend run for you you gain an unfair advantage even tho its not cheating with the present rules. It's bad for competition.
On alliance a few sets ago a guy had a landfarm for 3 weeks(and two other landfarms for a couple of days) but because of the bots the strong players were keeping up with him(because he was not very good) and he had no chance to win despite landfarms. Remove the bots and he would win even if suicided.
This is a totally legit point imho. It makes it so that, at best, multi runners have a minor edge in knowing their multi(s) are effectively a bot. Actual bots negate any significant edge.
I'm certainly not against bots for this reason. Not at the expense of a bit of Mano-a-mano though ;)