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I think you said it yourself - you enjoy scripting because you do not want to have to compete in reflexes and intuition - and because you are an RPer who just wants to be able to hold their own in PvP on IRE. That's fine - however, for a competitive PvP-centered game(IRE is centered on marketing to the lowest common denominator-of-style so that it can attract the largest variety people and bring in revenue), excessive reliance on botting in a PvP game just takes away from the adrenaline rush of in-the-moment decision making for most "hardcore" pkers.
This is why we discuss methods of reducing reliance on botting, and my personal design preference is creating a system that minimalizes the bonus of combat-botting/scripting.
I distinguish this as different than leveling-bots/etc, which are based on working on skills/exp/questing while you are sleeping. While this is an obvious advantage to those who use them, I would say that bots that take away from hack 'n slash gaming elements are useful to many players who do not enjoy hack 'n slash. It all comes down to what you want the focus of your MUD to be, and what kind of experience you want to give your players.
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