Mathra: Mathra: Are bots in game actually a bad thing, does any of this really matter?

It wouldn’t matter if everyone was allowed to use them, if not it’s a huge huge issue especially for a spreadsheet game. (also it’s going to get more and more difficult to catch them with current AI development)

Mathra: Mathra: Are Alpha toons likely to impact on the number of bots?

Theoretically yes, and you say you have seen them doing bot activity, no subscription required means unlimited free accounts to work with.

Mathra: Mathra: Do you have any experiences of bots and reporting them to CCP, if so, were you happy with their actions / response?

Yes, but not happy with the responses and response to it.

Mathra: Mathra: Do you think CCP are complicit in their use, if so, what have they got to gain from this?

Impo not CCP as a whole, but I do suspect and believe there are people inside CCP who are complicit in their use yes, what they gain from it depends, if they send an application to work at CCP with intensions and to lobby for certain bot enterprises they gain profit from it backdoor.

If they have been blackmailed, what they gain from it is not getting blackmailed. (such as (sensitive) private information shared in public/internet)

It’s easy to get your thread locked, when the topic is derailing out of subject the mod is forced to close it down, and some people know how to get this done, it would be more sufficient to remove posts of individuals which are deconstruction a topic, although this method can also come with its own problems.

Also make sure you’re not talking to much about the market for example, that way it will moved to market section which has somewhat less activity in human interaction.

Anyway props for doing stuff you’re not going to get paid for