Just had the most fascinating conversation with a GM

[Crushnight]

I'd say that they got all the bots they wanted to level 5, and moved on to another region, so somewhere else is now undergoing crush. Where, I don't know, but somewhere in the world, the bots are active. How do I know? Multi thousand person deep ques, and being kicked out of the game every 5 to 10 minutes that I am in it.

The game is being crushed to death under the weight of bots.

The servers were just hit by DDoS which explains the queue, we unfortunately get hit by these usually when they do a big ban wave which is comically sad when you think about it People make bots, SE bans bots, bot owner gets annoyed causing DDoS, SE tries making new anti DDoS maneuver rinse repeat.

Before you even think about typing "just get better preventive measures" YOU DO IT, because you cannot prevent everything it is impossible DDoS will always be a thing, bots will always be a thing, so long as someone finds a way to cheat a system people will take the path of least resistance. The best you could hope for is increase the Bi-weekly bannings to weekly at this stage