In primary????? Why the heck would we need bots in primary?

If bots look like new players, doesn't that just encourage grabbing new players?

i have always wanted to make the bots better targets than n00bs who don't know what they're doing, but worse targets than anyone who knows what ehy're doing

thanks for the post, we've got lots of user experience design stuff planned on this topic :)
I'll make a note to revisit this when we start the detailed planning for it

If you do ever insert bots, don't tell anyone and do it gradually. If we all just LG'd easy to spot and easy to break bots all day with no worry of retaliation the game would be kind of pointless. Plus anyone farming bot countries to the ground should be suicided on as that is what a real person would/should do to defend them self and ward off attacks.

The purpose of this would have to be to make the game better by stabilizing markets by having more countries and taking some of the hits off of the newbs, not just giving everyone easy unlimited land.

Yeah I had this same idea for alliance :)