Personally I wouldn't allow bots in any p2e game, period. (Yes, I know why they were allowed in the first place)
In hindsight last summer might have been the best time to ban them, instead of printing ridiculous amounts of assets, based on an inflated bot playerbase.
I think people DO understand that getting rid of bots will cause hyperinflation, crash the ecosystem and will make splinterlands look disgusting from a marketing perspective. The bigger the bubble the louder the bang.
Luckily there is a mechanic to dispose of excess Pelacor Bandits...😅
Getting rid of bots will not be painless, but I guess it needs to be done in order to build a healthy game.
So I don't think they should get rid of bots but I do think they need to ban new ones going forward which would allow the game to balance itself out over time without punishing people who did a perfectly legal thing at the time they did it and without crashing the entire economy completely.
I have some ideas on how they can actually equalize out or at least lessen the drain on the economy that I'm going to write a post about soon.
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eye am in ful agreeance, in fact my concern is that bots will have devalued the Dao level of splinterlands by being able to have collected the most sps, over humans and tho collective votes of splinterlands playing humans will mean less to nothing and the bot player base aka botticis wrex a kind of dominant soulless entity will act as a centralizing force, that will allocate the entire voting power to the few people running the bot accounts and thus stripping away any sovreignty that humans could have on this platform and almost ensuring that the potential mainstream. player base that could potentially find splinterlands, either by chance or by an intentional media will be scared away from the game by an elite army of very unwelcoming pre programmed algorithms that have already fully exploited the game before they got there. This being said we don't wanto punish the humans for the presence of botticus wrex, aka making rewards like Dec no longer earn able in bronze by new player, eye loved that back when eye began to play, that eye had player command within the gaming environment, as my clicks had life, value and power, now humans clicks no longer have as much meaning or value in the lower tyrs and only can be daily quest rewards now, which are small. Eye recently invited on of my girlfriends to play splinterlands and she invested in card packs because it's just a smart thing to do as a long term investment, however, when she began to play shees kind of stuck in the lower ranks because she doesn't purchase any in game assets she is just a p2e player new at gaming and doesn't wish to put in the thousands that eye have. So in this light folks like her are being punished for the actions of bits and every new player here on in is pre punished for the actions of bits and it's devaluing the nature of our clicks and the relevence of humans at all. In my opinion crash the markets then, kill all bot accounts and then the economy will become closer to what it would realistically be, even though it may suck, the price range of some cards like golden frost giants at 600k is like bying a mansion in the form of nfts, these assets would be more accessable as a price range, if bots didn't exist, because there would simply be less overall generated rewards assets and less multi account grind while ur sleeping availability to the elite few who can run 10 to 100 accounts and rake it in. In the end my main concern is the complete devaluing of the voting process behind sps and currently it will look like bots will own the Dao unless a number of us humans can actually get our hands fairly on validator liscence or if the splinterlands creators actually FREELY HAND OUT validator liscence to verrified humans who deeply wish splinterlands success and support and will devote themselves to the game and ecosystem. This brings up my last 2 ideas and the first is a groaner for sure as the kyc tech in splinterlands is really not good, as it won't validate me or my ID, but every other exchange will, binance ect, eym Canadian maybe that's why, but every account needs to be kycd and everyone can only have a single account and u can o ly transfer assets from verrified account to verrified account and once its set in motion all accounts are locked and all assets within them are locked and can ever be accesses unless their verrified and u can only verify a single account, this would pretty much decimate the multiple account hidden asset class. of botter and would be a fair invitation for other crafty human players to have just a single account, we give 7 days for everyone to move assets to a si gle account efore the necessary kyc, just get a better kyc algorithm because most human in some areas of the world will be locked out { lot of holes in that idea}. The last idea is that every human player is given a bot at start of game and the bot is woven into the game and is gamifed and its functions can be unlocked in an rpg mechanics style, and splinterlands just embraces bots and all new players are supported by having access to this layer. those r my feels, however in the final of it all we need to find a way to save the Dao from bot level centralization through the exploitation and abuse of sps, sps is sacred and we NEED to stand behind this as a united team of humans that value our voice as vote above all else, if our voice isn't sacred then greedy self interested entities will steal and eat this dream of ours before we even have a chance to direct it.
blessings be well
Sent on phone may be typos
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