Splinterlands - Are Bots Really An Epidemic?

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Not to brag too much but yesterday when I started my daily routine of playing 10 - 15 battles I encounter a set of bots with the name that starts with HAOGE. To my surprise they were all easy to beat, likely due to their lack of cards playable.

I went on a win streak facing bot after bot up to something like 12 wins in a row. At first I found it amusing as it meant I was getting bonus for wins that I likely never get in gold league. Yet then it hit me, how many of these bots are there from HAOGE? How much rewards are they snatching away from real players?

Exploring Bot Earnings

I decided to look up the last bot I defeated from the HAOGE gang, and disappoint to see just today they snagged a Chaos pack.

Dig a little into it as the bot transferred their pack to another player which I think is the main account: tommasovittori

Oddly enough peakmonsters can not see any of their cards?

But what was able to be viewed were its rentals and how many other accounts transferred packs to the account.

The main account has been collecting packs from likely bot accounts every few minutes! By my count the main account has 80 packs in the past 4 hours accumulated. That would mean in one day it has approximately 480 packs a day!

Bots Bots Bots

I could not find much more info other than the account move's its collected Chaos packs and sells it on Hive-Engine.

A lot of packs are off loaded and the proceeds went to mainly this account fabriziomancini.

Conclusions

In this account I was able to see that it had approximately $5.5k worth of cards. What was shocking though was that there are a staggering +203k of cards in the account.

It appears the bots had been thriving and continue in one big massive group. I don't know how much they are profiting but with the Soul Bound cards they are accumulating I would imagine this is increasingly likely that only a few control the majority of the reward cards. This is frustrating to see as I play daily and barely yield any cards let alone 1 pack lol.

I have no resolution to this bot epidemic. I am only posting this as to show what I have uncovered and don't feel I want to go further as it is only making me even more depressed. Imagine a few accounts holding majority of the reward cards just leaves a bad impression. What do you guys think?

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Yeah, it's kind of frustrating for me right now, too...
But if you remember how many bots were and received awards before that, in fact, nothing has changed. Bots invest a little money and time and then take out a lot of cards and packs, like now...

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It certainly is difficult to ignore. !PIZZA !LUV !WINE

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Thanks! !LUV !LOL

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There seems to be more bots after a decline. It has a name follow by a number. The majority of then only have specific cards. If there's a ruleset which states magic, they produce just one card !

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Better yet reward cards are locked in winning account forever !LOL !LUV

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I just laugh @olympicdragon since the Game is so Badly Broken and I have been here since the Start.......
You cannot Grow this Game when people that have been here for a while can see how Badly Broken it is.
Land Will be Fun but battling Farming/Mining BOT's will never make this game Fun Again.......

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I still find this embarrassing, frustrating and depressing, as I play virtually all of my games manually, seeing a report like this of so many packs and cards to a bot master makes me very sad.

Unfortunately nothing seems to be able to be done... #sad

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Hoping for better days ahead !LOL !PIZZA !WINE

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Most of the accounts are mining accounts. Let's call it what it is, mining.

What does it say about the game when there are 3 different services to enable participants to automate gameplay and mining operations make up much of the players and renters? It is such a good game that nobody wants to play it.

A reality is that the game play is such a part of Splinterlands and with the changes to come, game play is going to be de-emphasized further. This is transforming into a strategy/diplomacy/business sort of a game/experiment. Can't automate that. You have to be active with the community or else you fall behind and miss out.

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Indeed if more activities are required it will make it difficult for bots to play. Yet I hope it doesn’t take too much time being active in order to enjoy the game !PIZZA !LOL

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Thanks for pointing this out...........
I am just grateful I started when the Game first started on Steemit.
I do Battle everyday and I do not use BOT's, I just Play myself............
I will be Really Glad when Land is up and Running.
I will then have something fun to tend too without wasting my time battling against the BOT's.
I laugh at the Thought that One Day some BOT will want to Buy my High Dollar Cards.........
Keep Positive Thoughts ........

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The bots can be both good and bad. There are easy bots but I also think there are quite a strong ones too. I have found that it was kind of hard a few days ago but it got a bit easier yesterday and today.

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These people are a true damage to the game and the community around Splinter lands, Splinter lands should develop strong anti bot system, i know they are trying their hard.

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