Hi @fatjimmy first of all, I would like to make it clear that I am not against those who create bots or those who use them.
There is in my opinion a problem related to the impossibility for an active player who wants to play only against active players like him to use all his cards and not only the cards that can be used in the Modern Format.
But in my opinion IS FUN that you who have xbot, archmage in your wallet don't use them and you write a comment in which you also say that you don't use them even though you have purchased them. Do you like to buy tokens that you don't use? :)
You can own a bot token and let It play when you don't.. Is the perfect combo to enjoy the game but not being forced to play 24 matches every day. It becomes a job, not a funny game.
Absolutely yes it is possible but I challenge you to find an active player who does not use bots who enjoys playing against bots.
I have nothing against bots but I think mixing active players and bots or rather indirectly forcing active players to play against bots is not the right choice and no successful game has ever done such a thing.
bots and active player should have the same chance to be able to choose who to play against and with all cards, human or bots on Splinterlands don't have the same chance because bots can use all cards against human and non-human players while human players can't.
Is this a problem for you?
For me it is a big problem
Yeah I completely agree on this
PLEASE do not put words in my mouth. I never claimed to NOT use a bot.
I DO use a bot in wild, I was forced to turn it on a few months ago for the first time ever on my main account. Unfortunately we NEED to ALWAYS be playing to keep up with the soulbound rewards cards in order to stay competitive (a concept I currently despise - we are putting up permanent barriers new players will NEVER be able to overcome the longer it goes on).
I used to not worry at all if I was unable to play for a few days, but with SBR cards, we fall behind if we stop, so botting is literally being incentivized (again I find this very unfortunate). That said I only let my bot play to 25 energy, (1 days worth of battles/recharge if nobody plays), and I always have a days worth for me or my scholar to play manually. I typically play a few manual battles in wild every day at lunch as I eat. You will also note that I have several tokens in the same acct that I scooped up when cheap... they are SPL assets and I like to collect SPL assets.