Been playing this game for 8 years now. Devs have made many changes over the years, making it easier to play and introducing new features, so that is positive. On the negative side, games has been overrun by bots. Just Google “Altabot” and you’ll see what I mean. The fact that it’s still running and it’s a paid for service shows you that the developers have not been able to stop jt from impacting the game. The bot helps you build, helps you attack and defend. Same bot users also spend lots of real $$ to buy in-game gold so I guess the devs don’t want to shut off their revenue stream. The devs have banned accounts that uses bots but those mostly are small accounts and the bot users will just use the bots to create more accounts. The main accounts that uses bots, which also spend lots of in-game gold, doesn’t get banned. Lots of users brag on discord about how easy it is to use Altabot to auto-defend your stuff. If you aren’t willing to spend money, and don’t want to bot, then this game is not for you.
Hello, we have always worked hard to prevent bot programs. It's a shame that you had such a bad experience. We are doing our best to improve in this area.