I feel your frustration!
I am not at all convinced but at least hope that sooner or later Splinterlands will find ways to create 'safe spaces' for human players!
We have all heard the news about AI beating professionals at chess.
Actually, even conventional chess software is already enough to do the job and beat us humans in chess.
Frustration is real.
Bot is not the problem, human greed and frustration is. If I want I can buy every bot, private and public, available. But I don't. Its a choice. It is because of my choice I am who I am.
Not every bot owner sells their product ...
For example I myself had created an odds calculating and arbitrage program some years ago ... and declined every offer from anybody to purchase it because it gave me a decisive advantage against the bookies. :-)
But of course I know what you mean, you could get access to some very well playing bots.
But you are neither the whole ecosystem nor a typical Splinterlands player.
Your behaviour honors you, but if the ecosystem is dominated by bots, many human players will get frustrated and potential new players won't join.
I call that a huge problem for the future of the game.
You have the advantage that you might like the earnings (the ROI) from the game but don't depend at all on them in any way. However, for other people it matters quite a lot if they win a tournament or if they reach rank 27 behind of 26 bots.
And really: in addition it is simply no fun, if the big majority of the 'opponents' is just software.
Obviously, I can't buy what is not available for sale.
Also agree with everything you said. It is simply not fun, when you play against a bot!
However, not just bots, there are plenty of other things available for sell. I just checked the market and this is what I saw
I thought Gene is not desparate! Buy hey, what do I know?
Thank you.
I've gone through the frustration and now all I feel is emptiness, lol.
Yeah, I'm quite concerned about the creation of a real safe space.
Even though it hasn't been that way before, it was acceptable because there were so few of them.
Offer a bot with no more than a 60% win rate at a low price and ban everything else; discontinue BH or make it an expensive product.
I wish we could adjust things like that.
Even a pro with over 10 years of chess experience loses to the AI. It takes a genius to beat the AI in Splinterlands, which is still a young game. It's not good enough to play a game where only such a rare person can taste victory!