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RE: Death By Bidbot: The Fair Use Of Steem
I think bidbots are terrible and are a loophole that go against the intended purpose of Steemit. Steem Monsters had the same problem, but they made some very creative updates to really reduce the effectiveness of bots. The bots are still there, but their rewards have been shrunk such that real players can always do better.
Interesting, I haven't really kept up with Steem Monsters, can you tell me what their problems were with bots, and how they sorted them out?
Cg
It's hard to explain unless you know the game, but essentially bots were mining cards with automated accounts because cards have value and can be sold in the market. To make it harder on bots, each match now has a random set of rules, so the same deck of cards won't always win. It was still a problem, so they changed the rewards so bots can now only mine from a small subset of cards. This affects players too of course, but real players can still trade for or purchase new decks. Also, real players getting better cards will then always beat bots, and so rewards were increased for higher ranked players that are not bots. It's not quite worth the effort to be a bot anymore, the better players can earn more than a bot making a bunch of spam accounts.
That's not too say the bots are all gone, but it's a lot harder to win now against real people and the value of cards on the market have gone up now that it's not being flooded by bots.
Very interesting, and it shows that something can be done about rogue bots messing up the system.
Even though I don't play, that fills me with happiness. It means the game has a chance to grow, as normal people will see that they have a chance to compete against other human players. Nice.
I really think Steemmonsters could end up being the making of the Steem blockchain.
Thanks for the info! 🙄😁👍
Cg