1 million active players, but how many of them are bots and alts?

[Stormpeaks]

Precisely. It's also rather sad when some of those bots also purchase housing, an extremely limited resource in this game. We have gotten to the point where one would not know whether a player is a player or a bot.

And that's literally where you lost me

Shell FC's are not botters, bots dont purchase houses.

Also if housing is "an extremely limited resource" it's because of SE. It also isnt that much of an extremely limited resource considering there's thousands upon thousands of plots on new worlds.