Obviously you don't understand a very simple concept.

Bots can be programmed to push a button. You're more likely to kill a real player via a misclick then you are to kill a bot once programmed correctly.

One thing I learned from another game (ffxi) is that many things done to reduce botting actually increased it. Add excessive/annoying clicks and you're more likely to drive legitimate miners away and leave only botters behind, because they're not bothered by excessive/annoying clicks.

You obviously didnt read the post... bots are made to look for certain functions... change the function or never have the same one... bot no worky... bot accepts a duel or doesnt answer the question then ship goes pop.

If drones did not automatically go after Pirates/rat and each rat had to be manually targeted then mining barges could not survive. Therefore; making it impossible to BOT MINE. Or even AFK mine.

How about random Captcha to prove we are not bots.

Bots reduce miner income by at least 50%

2) decrease prices on items

Do you have any factual evidence to support your assertion?

Do you have any factual evidence to support your assertion?

Dear Solstice Project, thank you for your well thought out and considered reply.

Fact: No one actually knows with any degree of certainty how much mineral prices are affected by botting.

Made up figures based on virtually no evidence are just that and no more.

I hope this helps folk 'who lack higher cognitive abilities'

Edit. Sorry, your original post seems to have disappeared.

Dear Solstice Project, thank you for your well thought out and considered reply.

Fact: No one actually knows with any degree of certainty how much mineral prices are affected by botting.

Made up figures based on virtually no evidence are just that and no more.

I hope this helps folk 'who lack higher cognitive abilities'

Edit. Sorry, your original post seems to have disappeared.

Yah and before they started to do the bot banning, isk for trit was only 2 isk a m3 and plexes where half the cost they were now.

trit was 2-3 ISK/unit because of (at various times)

shuttles (source since removed)
drone poo (source since removed)
trash drops (source since removed)
bots (trit's still 5 isk/unit these days even with however many bots are missed)

Bot banning was declared 2012 03 01, according to graphs, almost one month and 7 days later, trit price has raised up by 1-2 isk. Then the next month, the prices hold steady at around 5 to 6 isk per unit, despite the total volume being at it LOWEST of all year.

all info was gathered from here: http://www.eve-markets.net/detail?typeid=34#history I set history at the past 395 days from the time of this post.

Slowly though trit prices has leveled off

did you even read the data in your own link? 1-2 isk? less than one isk.
4.73 - 5.63, that's an increase of 0.9 isk.

not to mention, april was when hulkageddon was going on (according to a quick google). hence, the low volume.

in short, none of this evidence proves anything about bots, banning of bots, or anything even remotely relevant to this thread.

Bot banning was declared 2012 03 01, according to graphs, almost one month and 7 days later, trit price has raised up by 1-2 isk. Then the next month, the prices hold steady at around 5 to 6 isk per unit, despite the total volume being at it LOWEST of all year.

all info was gathered from here: http://www.eve-markets.net/detail?typeid=34#history I set history at the past 395 days from the time of this post.

Slowly though trit prices has leveled off

Then I will ask you, when provided a 800 day review, why is it that the only month that the mineral supply for trit was the lowest? Hulkageddon didn't last the entire month, it lasted for like..A week AT MOST before it got old, next do you think that was the only time hulkageddon happen in the life of this game? If so you are sorely mistaken. If you go back 999 days, the max that the data goes back to, that month is still in fact the LOWEST. Proof? I provided the proof, now it your turn to believe in it.

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Then I will ask you, when provided a 800 day review, why is it that the only month that the mineral supply for trit was the lowest? Hulkageddon didn't last the entire month, it lasted for like..A week AT MOST before it got old, next do you think that was the only time hulkageddon happen in the life of this game? If so you are sorely mistaken. If you go back 999 days, the max that the data goes back to, that month is still in fact the LOWEST. Proof? I provided the proof, now it your turn to believe in it.

If drones did not automatically go after Pirates/rat and each rat had to be manually targeted then mining barges could not survive. Therefore; making it impossible to BOT MINE. Or even AFK mine.

How about random Captcha to prove we are not bots.

Then I will ask you, when provided a 800 day review, why is it that the only month that the mineral supply for trit was the lowest? Hulkageddon didn't last the entire month, it lasted for like..A week AT MOST before it got old, next do you think that was the only time hulkageddon happen in the life of this game? If so you are sorely mistaken. If you go back 999 days, the max that the data goes back to, that month is still in fact the LOWEST. Proof? I provided the proof, now it your turn to believe in it.

If drones did not automatically go after Pirates/rat and each rat had to be manually targeted then mining barges could not survive. Therefore; making it impossible to BOT MINE. Or even AFK mine.

How about random Captcha to prove we are not bots.

The bot battle will not end as long as there is in-game money to be made by boring tasks. Either you have to find a way to make the boring tasks not boring...

I don't have an elegant solution to bot mining.

i do.
it's not broken, so...

leave it the **** alone.

I think you are mistaken, bot mining is not fine. It is a problem.

I think you are mistaken, bot mining is not fine. It is a problem.