are you freaking aware that people leaving automated bots on for !!! 3 months !!! is scaring away every single new player on euro battle.net? when i first joined eurobattle it was buried and lively with people who play battleships and battletanks.. all versions! now with errisponsible bot hosts, only a single game per day!!
its even driving the dota users away! i would know cause i MADE .a (period ALPHA not fucking 'defense of the ancients')'s base map!.
and i heard you guys did a legal shutdown against playdota.eu (WHAT THE HELL) those guys were PROVIDING low lag methods for peoples to host games who otherwise behind firewalls cannot. I CANT HOST ANYMORE CAUSE I NEED MY FIREWALL
also some bots are now demanding the use of gproxy.. that means non-super-elite users running macintosh sparcos, hand helds, touchpads and etc and many variants of linux AND mac users CANNOT PLAY DOTA you need to MAC ADDRESS BAN THOSE BOTS
the bots hosting battleships and battletanks have DRIVEN AWAY the used to be MANY custom games players. empty unmanned rooms even with the force start command ,,, they are OMINOUS and FOREBODDING. in other words.. it scars noobs away even more than players who were ALREADY on the server.
let me rephrase my statement... hosting bots are OK. hosting bots are NESSESARY people who leave bots on always make them hack targets - so that professional idiots (aka trolls) can lag kick and votekick out the remaining good players you HAD.
this servers gunna DIE if you let this crap happen.
mac ban the bots, mac ban the users that put those bots, and leave bots that are there only when players are there.. the HELL ALONE.
i would love to go back to playing gemtd and dota. and banning people cause they are NOOBS is no longer allowed, because that illiminates the remaining players that would actually pay to keep your site going. more like mac address ban assholes who kick people... period.