[2021] So many bots in starting area

Lots going on with this behind the scenes. We’ve actually banned a large number of them, I can’t be very specific because that would indicate some of what we are doing. The upcoming patch has many more steps here, and we’ll ban them in the meantime. Our goal is to make it unrewarding/low yield. Bans are just a temporary thing along that path.

No, sorry - apparently my wording was poor. We aren’t lowering the yield in game for an actual player. We’re changing the pace of acquiring gold early to lower yield for quick cycle bots. The net gain to a player will be the same. And this is just one step of many.

Yes, it’s a good suggestion - will add it to our set of things to do here.