[ionstar]

Of course there is a difference.

When a powerplayer causes depletion he's doing so by exerting effort, and hence deserving of the rewards gained. He has strove for as close to 100% efficiency as he can, and as a side effect other players on the mud may suffer from resource depletion. Everytime he wants to do this, he has to exert that effort all over again.

On the other hand, the player behind the bot has only had to exert effort once, in creating the bot, then being rewarded infinite times no more effort involved.

Sure the end result can be the same, but that's really where the similarities end.

I know you dont like the term 'work' and I agree, games shouldn't be work, it should be fun, but that doesn't subtract from the fact you should not be able to get something for nothing, escpecially when doing so can adversely affect other players, like it can through resource depletion.