[Valg]

Yup. Enforced RP and/or the ability to kill another player without their consent does wonders for keeping botting down. We have both and occasionally see it, but it's generally a newer player who often claims it was legal and normal activity on their previous game, and they didn't read our rules. Sometimes they end up reporting themselves by complaining that someone killed them while they were AFK/idle.

Botting isn't cheating on many games. If the game allows or encourages it, your powergamer archetypes will seek to set up increasingly efficient bots.

I agree-- one of our running jokes on staff are the players who have entire written/played roles aimed at a specific RP reward that they've seen given out to other players previously. We're very careful about feeding that beast with the desired reward, lest that turn into the only kind of RP we see. It's much more fun to see people doing something original.