Add captchas to slow down bots (e.g. whenever PBT finishes)

To help reduce botting why not add mandatory captchas at regular intervals if playing time exceeds a particular threshold (or simply whenever the village guard expires or the PBT finishes)?

Most bots are undoubtedly already capable of handling the PBT's without much "service interruption" beyond what is mandatory, so a captcha to get back into the game should pose a bit of a challenge for them :) Sure, captchas could be circumvented with sufficiently smart bots or low wage third world labour but considering the large number of different bots out there it's bound to slow down the vast majority.

I wouldn't like to have to fill out a captcha when x expires. I have things to do, troops to train, etc. This game is built off of convenience, and IMHO it should stay that way.

Seriously, would a 10 second captcha every 4 hours of playing time really be such a major inconvenience to regular non-botting players? How many times do you run into forced PBT's during a day?

The game needs to be restarted anyway following a forced PBT so in order to throw off bots and prevent them from automatically resuming their thing following a PBT I would like to propose some captcha that needs to be filled out in order to get back into the game. That would likely be a major PITA for botters without really inconveniencing the legitimate players.

That's a good idea, but not a weird captcha of course, like recaptcha or those weird shaped things, just some simple ones.


Btw what happens when you type them wrongly for 3 times ? If your answer is nothing, then they can add a database full of captcha answers and fill them one by one (stupid but possible :P)

I also veto the CAPTCHA. I hate it when websites do it. I would uninstall any game that forced that on me.