Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
I think the only reasons a lot of people don't bot are:

1. They don't want to have to pay for a botting program.

2. They're not willing to accept that extremely tiny risk of them getting banned.

3. They don't want to damage their reputation.

In the long run though, the amount of bots has just continued to snowball as time goes on.
Since SE has made it evident they don't actually care about botters, I've gone from hating them with a passion, to now being grateful for the cheap crystal, shard, cluster, sand cost. (It's me just trying to turn a negative into a positive in my mind because it was driving me insane on Midgardsormr)

It felt like wasted energy to video record and send them a report with a link to the video showing them follow the same pattern for hours and not have anything happen to those characters.

Knowing now that SE doesn't do anything, it's highly tempting. I mean why not? You get all the reward and profit at no effort. Paying for it is not an issue, and people would never know it's me in how i'd set it up. But I've been playing this game too long and totally fall into the #2 category. I'd be devastated if I got banned and lost my houses, so I'll never touch it.

I'm assuming the people that bot might not have anything to lose?

Honestly, it's not fair that I work really hard in this game to gather and craft. I am completely jealous and envious of botters but it no longer is something I can healthily say is worth getting angry over since it's been close to 4 years now and nothing has changed. I'm assuming turning on anti-cheat measures isn't possible with our game code but I don't know enough about that topic to have an informed opinion on why SE hasn't acted yet.