Most people in the lords community recognize my name from the hundreds of lords mobile guides I’ve had the pleasure of working on over the past three years. I’ve been blessed during this time to meet and work with some incredibly smart, diligent and passionate people who have all shared my desire to spread knowledge about the game with other players. About a year ago, I found a large amount of my and my friends’ guides were being anonymously posted on a lords mobile bot called Hephbot. A small team of people headed by Nick were gathering and sharing information on a bot who’s audience had spread well past their intended two guild groups. Many of my peers were upset that their work had been taken and shared without permission. Their names had been cut off and old, outdated information was being shared despite the hours we were pouring into making new guides. Honestly, I was upset too. But instead of taking it out on the developers I saw the potential in Hephbot to be something far greater than it was. I joined their team and we collectively spent thousands of hours together updating info, creating new graphics, testing things and posting good, trustworthy information that could be shared with the lords mobile community. Our bot was in thousands of rooms with tens of thousands of people adding and using it daily for the daily packs, monster lineups, hero challenges, and so much more.



Yesterday, Nick posted a message in our developer chat announcing that he’d accepted an offer to sell the bot to an individual who would be giving him $1,000 as a down payment and an additional $100 per month as “payroll,” with the unfortunate downside that I would not be working with Hephbot Innovations any longer due to previous disagreements between myself and the new owner of our bot. Nick did this without ever mentioning the offer to me or discussing the potential ramifications of a sale. In his message, he announced that the new owner would be maintaining our brand but adding his name and with new commands to sell his products to the Hephbot community. He said that while he attempted to put limits on content changes, ultimately Hephbot would belong to the buyer to do “as he pleases.”



It has been my stance for a long time that selling Hephbot as a place to advertise for the underground LM market would be unfair as our followers trust us to give them good, unbiased information, not favor specific sellers. By selling our bot, the new owner would have a monopoly on advertising to the Hephbot community which reaches hundreds of thousands of people in LM rooms across the world. I believe that we have a responsibility to continue to provide our users good information, but providing biased advertisement, even for a paycheck, is not something I can ever get behind. In my dream world, everyone has access to the hundreds of reputable sellers in the community where prices can be fairly established by supply and demand, but I realize that’s a pipe dream so I will settle to just not be a part of the problem.



When I explained all of this to Nick, he told me that I was right but that it was too late to do anything. After a few hours of me frustratingly trying to preserve the integrity of the bot I’d helped build, I was removed from our developers room. Heartbroken, I shared what had happened in a small group of my close friends here and went to bed. When I woke up this morning, there were dozens of messages being sent around to group rooms, hundreds of people reaching out with either support or their take on the drama, and the bot was removed from many rooms.



With the exception of Nick, I have no problems with anyone who was on the Hephbot Innovations team and want to thank them for the time and energy they’ve spent developing such a fantastic tool. Skippy, Virus, Pat and I have all been working together on some awesome commands that’ve improved people’s games. That’s what this project was all about. Not everything has been perfect nor has every project been completed, but they are all hard working people that I respected. I do not ever want to take credit for their work or the work of anyone who’s built any guides with me over the years. I’m just one part of a very large group of people who’ve been able to make this community a better place.



Some people have expressed concerns about the safety and security of Hephbot. To the best of my knowledge, Nick has been exploring various options for coding the bot for the past few months. During this process, I have adamantly insisted that we put privacy as a main priority when choosing coding. Invading people’s guild chats and being able to read their messages is not what Hephbot was made for, but is a potential side effect depending on which programs are used. As of yesterday before I was removed, Hephbot was not using a type of coding that would allow the developers to access the information and records for the chats that Hephbot was in. This however does not mean that they will not switch to a method in the future or that the a new owner will not incorporate coding allowing your chats’ histories to be viewable by developers. To be blunt, I do not trust Nick nor any future owners to respect people’s privacy and for this reason, I would highly suggest that if you want to continue to use Hephbot, that you do so in private message with the bot and not include it in your guild chats.



I have never worked on any of my LM projects to make money and I never wanted people to be able to be taken advantage of because of my work. I also have never enjoyed any drama or bickering in any part of this community. I understand that today, Nick has backpedaled and claims that the bot will not be sold. While I hope this is true for the sake of our community, I cannot speak to the future of Hephbot other than to say that I will not be a part of it whatsoever, nor will my guides. To those of you who’ve reached out offering support and asking about where to find my info again, stay tuned. I’m sure that together, we’ll be able to find a new way to share all of our information without money getting in the way.



I do not plan on commenting on this post and this is the only response that all of the drama will get from me today. I plan on spending the day with my family, working in the career I’m blessed to have, financially supporting myself, and burning some castles- all without the need to sell out my or other peoples’ information. Whether you support me or don’t, Ive been doing this for way too long to let some pettiness drag me down. For those of you who have asked, I’ll attach screenshots of the conversation I’ve referenced. Good luck Nick, you’re gonna need it.



All my love, always.

Dee