Plots everywhere demolished and open!

[gilmorej]

My point was merely that scripts or 3rd party programs aren't even necessary to automate buying a house, not whether or not keyboard macroing is botting.

Probably wasn't even worth bringing up, in hindsight.

[Seraphor]

My point was merely that scripts or 3rd party programs aren't even necessary to automate buying a house, not whether or not keyboard macroing is botting.

Probably wasn't even worth bringing up, in hindsight.

Well you were talking about discerning 'real players' from bots, or not so as the case may be.

Fact is in this scenario, real players ARE the bots, because why else would they want the housing plot but to actually use that plot?
Actual players bot all the time, from spamming housing plot placards, to automated gathering. It's not just throwaway accounts for gil sellers.
And the fact that a person actually hitting the keys themselves over and over can be virtually indistinguishable from a script just compounds the problem.

Of course you could always try to initiate a trade with them, if they haven't turned trades off.