Quote from: Spiky on August 10, 2014, 08:20:46 AM

Quote from: HunterMinerCrafter on August 09, 2014, 10:35:56 PM

There will likely be some time where the network is "naturally" free of heavy bot competition without bot operators explicitly holding back again.

I'm afraid this "natural" period might be too small. What bot owners will probably need to do is disable map filtering and everything else remains the same. It actually can happen so quickly that human players might not even notice it. So what I'm talking about is that bot owners can make an agreement or something and intentionally switch off their bots for some time (a week) cause TT reset is in fact a very rare event and I think we should not waste it. I think it's pretty rational behavior even though it's slightly unsafe for the network (who cares?). I can't understand what's the point to collect coins if you can't sell them at a good price. We have something like prisoner's dilemma here and we (human players and bot operators) definitely should cooperate (even if we can't do it naturally by making humans and bots equal we still can simply make an agreement). It would be even better if we could arrange this event every month or every two weeks but it is impossible without TT reset (network would simply stuck).

So, HunterMinerCrafter, do you agree?

I get your sentiments, but this simply doesn't solve anything long-term. And it would deliberately make the network unstable periodically, that's a no-no from me. I believe there's a middle ground solution hiding in plain sight somewhere here, but I think it's certainly not "turn off your bots, pretty please?"