Speaker, those are external sites to the game. Granted people who develop the game have developed these sites as well, but they are using information available to anybody with an API code. You, or anyone for that matter (who plans to develop a site, bot or even app) can request a code, then format and do with the data as they please. You're missing my point.

I am not trying to imply any admins <b>are in fact</b> cheating, I simply think theres an ethical barrier being crossed. It's the fact that the possibility of cheating even exists due to actual players having access to sensitive information that could in turn give them (and/or the alliance they're in) an upper hand.

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dagga, it may be a touchy subject, but I am bringing it up anyways.