offering an option without a reasonable way of making it become reality is called populism.
that's why Brexit failed so miserably.
removing bots reduces the number of games played drastically.
new or bad players also have far less chance to win against veteran players.
Rental income would dimnish if the entire Bot base can no longer make a profit, and players who dont want to play manual constantly will likely start adding cards to the rental market instead of taking them off.
you will have people who own cards and bot on several alts start selling or renting those cards also.
on top of the fact that town halls mentioned botting was legal on several occasions and it wouldn't change in the future.
removing a method of getting a profit from assets = asset value drops, thats simply how a market works.
removing predictability by having populism overrule old verdicts = less chance of long term investing.
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Yes, removing bots would harm the battle liquidity (like in modern, when the split happened) and likewise the rental market will suffer as well.
That's a no brainer.
Tbh I think NFTyArcade is the best product to tackle the profit of asset holders in such a case, combined with a much better onboarding procedure in place.
The worst experience for players starting with no clue of the game mechanics is getting owned by some creepy bots even in novice all day long, which operate on their databases.
Always loosing won't get you to swollow the splinterlands pill!
As you said:
"on top of the fact that town halls mentioned botting was legal on several occasions and it wouldn't change in the future."
I would answer with a quote from @yabapmatt:
"Initial plans are never perfect and it's important to be able to make changes to the initial plan later on."
that they damage the rental market is but only the first look. because the whole look is. they take it away from us from the reward pool and give us a small part of it back via the rental market ;)
and what's worse, it's not even given back fairly. they take it away from the lower reward pools and through the rental market they give it back to the people from upper leagues for the most part. so in addition it's a redistribution from the bottom to the top
no, once bots are banned. then the starting shot is given to figure out how best to eliminate them. because even a plan made now would eventually be circumvented by bots therefore it is a constant process.
but for this the legimatimation must first be created!