When we bring up BOTS, there are generally two different things we are talking about:
- Bot Farms.
- Bot for any battles.
Bot Farms is still a problem, but something is still not being addressed here. A BOT farm is someone that runs multiple accounts to extract value. Often this means there is a low-value account with the idea of getting more value from this each week or each season.
Most SPL-TV streamers run multi-accounts. Is it the same issue whether they use BOTS or play manually? Aren't the purpose of this to extract MORE value than a single account? I always see this when streamers switch between 6+ accounts during the EoS rewards!! You get the sense that this is normally because everyone gets more rewards using a dozen accounts. They also increase the odds of getting GFL this way.
The next issue is BOT at the highest level of play. Here is an issue with the Leaderboard bonus, Tournaments and Guild Brawls. We need to decide how to handle this. I would think when there are incentives to be won, it is much harder to get rid of BOT in these conditions. Cheaters appear in CHESS Tournament, Game Shows and anything that is a game with winners and losers. I think you have to decide if you want only HUMAN players, then you have to design a system to detect that. But to do this in RANKED, GUILD brawls, or even tournaments might be harder than you think. Battle helpers is a concept that everyone brings up. Having an Excel sheet to help you can be cheating, but you will not be detected or stopped using any new BOT monitoring software.
There is a reason why games with prizes are done in person. It reduces the odds of cheating. This is just something we need to consider before adding all the layers of security. Credit cards have fraud, but if they made a credit card with 5 levels of security for the legal owners to use (and adds 30 seconds more per transaction), no one would use it. The balance is the key.