There are people who are now boldly stating that they have botted near 24/7 since september/october and despite all the reports people put in about these people they are still not punished in any way. Maybe it is time that botting becomes a true legitimate form of gaming with the company allowing certain artificial at commands to be given over when people are offline.

You may say but then why bother playing the game or that is just a stupid idea. Its already being done anyhow and no one is really being punished anymore. Just build the game around a bit of automation and take the power out of these chinese companies/botters hands. I know that Knights of the old republic tried it with some automation robots collecting materials for you but that was more of an after thought and half assed.