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Thanks for changing Broken Gates

I think this was done a while ago, but I've seen some discussion of it recently.

I do not think that the person complaining about not being able to close gates on someone in Age 1 fully understands that, while it's all well and good to talk about closing gates to "beat a bot", the reality was that people who used a bot on other accounts, but attacked people from their "main" account, got ahold of the gate closer and totally obliterated smaller players, regardless of whether those smaller players were engaged in rule-breaking or not.

Many people that break the rules still do not have a politics hero capable of instant walls. Nobody that I know that does not break rules has one.

The bottom line is that, regardless of whether or not the target is a botter, being able to force gates closed is just the complete opposite of "fighting", in a supposed "war game". It was used as a low-to-no-risk way of wiping out people's walls, and without walls, a city is a much easier target.

I applaud Evony for eventually seeing how imbalanced forced closing of gates was and making the change.
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  • Well something they need to fix with the gate buster related to bots is only being able to apply while walls are closed..for instance if a players is running a bot and has the bot set to keep walls open for scouting and closed for attacks the strata gem can't be applied unless your really lucky and get it within that 1/10th of a sec window...now why would that be important?If walls are shut and comforting or texting whats the point in killing troops?Well bots have get more and more advanced as time goes on,now they can do true false lines..same concept as entering digits on an excel doc,when something is present one thing happens if its not another action is taken.Ok so mech defense,this has been a d destroyed by the wall strats,you simply spam down walls,apply strata and kill mechs..well now a good programmed bot can recognize its not in a 5k defense anymore and close walls but keep gates open for scouting,on older servers where people can have 100s if not thousands of speech texts this creates a problem,provided the bot does not crash the player could run that defense for an extremely long period of time,were talking 5-6 months,now at some point along the line Im sure the bot would fail and the player would lose the city,but its a huge problem if exploited the right way,simple solution allow the strata to be applied regardless of walls being open or closed,for that hour a player can't close walls. That's all that is required to solve this issue.
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  • Dont quite think the 'Broke Gates' was developed in intention of beating bots.. Evony KNOWS and accepts the fact that the majority of the players bot.. They are totally detectable, i play another game on Andriod that opened in March 2013, they had bot problems within the 1st month.. 2 weeks later.. 1/2 the server disappeared, a statement was released that the missing accounts had had bots detected on them, there would be 0 tolerance, and any1 caught using 1 would not only have their account deleted.. their ISP would be permenatly banned.. If this small andriod came can do it .. so can Evony.
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    Broke gates wasnt meant to beat bots.. Its mean to get at that guy who calls you out in WC over and over, or hits your food in vallys and everytime u port in on him, you cant even touch his troops because he just keeps his gates closed and laughs at you .. HAHA no fkers! its a wargame and now you HAVE to fight..
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