Re: Botting - why?
Many players will happily bot through fun and interactive content if it gives them an advantage. To discourage botting without explicit rules you need to reduce the incentive, and IMO the best way to do that is non-repeatable content (because if it takes longer to set up the bot than simply complete the content yourself, it's not worth the effort).
Yes, in that case it's part of the game. However it's worth noting that many people dislike automated combat because of that lack of interactivity. On the other hand, some muds have manual combat systems with so many options that players are required to set up scripts in order to play competitively, effectively turning them back into automated combat systems that just have a much higher learning curve.
|