I really don't feel like this is the case or a problem right now. Granted there are some gathering bots on the map, but those shouldn't really bother people to much I wouldn't think right now. The attacking players I don't really think are 'complete' bots, or they are not very sophisticated by any means. I have been playing manually off and on for the last week to see what is going on with the game for inspiration of my next bot programs. The characters I think people think are bots are very easy to attack and take coins from. Even if the characters are doubled up, you can still take an easy 4.8 coins from them. They seem to re-generate automatically which implies bot behavior. But I think they mostly go to a tile and wait for manual instruction. At least they really aren't very sophisticated to make good real-time game decisions. These characters are being controlled by a group of dedicated people which makes them tough for the casual player to compete with. Casual players will need to team up to control parts of the game board if they want to.