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  1. I can't be bothered to read the whole thread but I'll give my opinion on it. BK Net was launched in early 2015, before the API was even a thing. It managed city grants, loans, entrance grants, and an member to alliance market. It has since been expanded to do... pretty much everything. We had a recruitment bot years before anyone else even thought of it. In BK, all of our tech is proprietary and built in-house by myself and a few other talented developers. We have a development group (which is underutilized) and encourage our members to learn programming to continue to build tools. We make an attempt to foster skill growth within our programming community. However, we do not automate certain things. We do not give automated recommended builds or automated recommended war paths (we have sims though). I personally feel like relying on a bot too much does not allow your individual members to be competent on their own. But that is the choice your alliance has to make.

    That being said, the barrier to entry to create automation tools is extremely low. Back in 2015, it was next to impossible to create tools that do what they do today because there was no API. With the improvements to v1 API, the limited scope of v2 API, and especially with v3 API, it is super easy to watch a few videos on YouTube and build yourself a bot and learn a valuable skill in real life. Shit, I basically learned web programming due to BK Net. Additionally, as mentioned above, there are plenty of open source or free-to-use bots and tools out there. You don't even have to learn how to code. Pull Loctutus in your sever and have at it. Personally, I don't like using foreign bots but that's a decision your alliance has to make.

    Bottom line, banning bots is stupid. I think the rules surrounding automation is sufficient. Additionally, the barrier to entry to pull bots into your sever or consume the API is pretty low and will only get easier as they improve the v3 API. The skill gap has changed. Adapt or lose. 

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