Quote Originally Posted by Jijifli View Post
I really wanna focus on this part here, because I feel like you're not understand what I was originally putting forward.

If you do somethings that is against rules, and it also has negative impacts on others for your own gain, you should receive punishment for it.

You're even saying yourself in your statement to push against me that she didn't think they should be free for what they did. You can feel bad for people who do wrong things, without also letting the wrong thing slip by. OP broke the rules, and their actions easily could have punished somebody else out of something they worked hard for, without any effort on her own end. It's honestly the closest to stealing a house you can get here.
I don't really think it is like stealing a house, and if it's the closest thing it still isn't that close. If a human sits at the computer for 12 hours and clicks nonstop is this truly different than using a tool that clicks your mouse for you? In terms of the availability for that house for other players, the impact is the same. And in both cases, you're unable to use your character for a different in-game activity. Is it that the player who sits there and does it manually is somehow "earning" it? I would hope not - that behavior is explicitly what they attempted to prevent by making the timer random. Systemically speaking there is no "earning" a house and they don't want players doing this, either manually or via automation. So should players be punished for manually clicking a house until it becomes available for purchase? I think if you believe that auto clickers are a form of cheating for a house, you're stuck believing that spam clicking at all is cheating for a house. Neither method is the intended way to get a house.

And this is ultimately why I don't think it's worth punishing players who would use an auto clicker to get a house. It's not going to prevent people from doing it - the incentive lies in the way the system is designed. It would be retributive, and it would be retributive for a system that leaves a lot to be desired for what's "fair" to players in the first place. You will never be able to ban, punish, shame, or humiliate people out of using auto clickers, or finding other methods of circumventing it. If you want to advocate for a change to player behavior, you should advocate for a change to the system.