Tiny empire bots
Tom Cloud
Tiny empire bots clogging up popular waterways on the grid https://gyazo.com/567462760493e7b284718f0432c10138
this is a twice weekly occurrence covering most of the grids water sims with numbers from 12 to 17 bots each sim , quite a few cruises run through these regions and it stops legitimate entry for sailors taking part in said cruises . these bots are there on average 30 mins to 2 hours
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Bavid Dailey
Yesterday I saw something new, a bunch of avatars with names ending in number , for example juju500, clustered on a privately owned region. The ones i checked were 2 weeks old. I suspect they may have been tiny empire related, or worse another manifestation (infestation) of the same awful idea. I was at an event on another parcel in the same region and couldn’t go investigate.
Has this been observed before?
Tom Cloud
It also disrupts races in south corsica , quite a few time St Abrey have had to pospone races because a ring of 16 bots right under the raceline
Soanos Pacer
This is still happening. Now they are disrupting the Summer Sailstice event and all the traffic to and from the event.
This is borderline griefing and denial of service attack.
AstridPerrin Resident
I do not understand why they are not having to buy the land to do this game and not ruining the waters for sailing
Nightwish Sveiss
This "game" maker really need to be put under pressure till they change their "game mechanics" to not encourage people to do this.
Huns Valen
Petition to officially call these Drummer Colonies. If you've read The Diamond Age you'll know why.
Beatrice Voxel
So I took a look at the Tiny Empires home page, and their Standings page tells ... quite the story.
This particular fork of the tree is very much a bot swarm, look at the names:
and then I get down a bit further, and ... there's this:
Note that the video's very wide: i was viewing the page on an ultrawide monitor 5120x1440 and not only did I need to scroll down, i had to pan to the right to expand the entire branch of the TE tree.
This is out of control.
KarlRichard Resident
Beatrice Voxel Looks like a pyramid scheme/multilevel sales. This means they will become more and more, until the regions are full.
Beatrice Voxel
KarlRichard Resident Exactly. The 'resource' they're leveraging is 'occupied land', which is why the game itself is a DDOS attack against LL's open regions.
IF one could determine the 'owners' of these bot swarms, and prune them out via reporting of TOS violations, at that point it might (!) be able to be brought back under control. The issue is that the game itself is run externally, and it may not have any way of verifying that a given account is logged in or even active, so will still show those members in the hierarchy. Word might get around that LL is cracking down on bot operators of this type, which would either A) discourage use of such bots, or B) encourage them to try and stealth their way around the AR's.
Soanos Pacer
When I look at the world map right now, all of the blake sea is green with bot rings, with several clusters all the way up to Gaeta V. And a bunchn in Sansara and Corsica water areas.
Whoever made that TinyEmpires HUD really found a clever way to DDoS the regions by weaponising some gullible fools to do their job for them in the guise of a game.
Tom Cloud
update 15/01/2026 10.19 am slt
so today we have huge numbers of the bots again , 18 in two regions
This is just a small sample , the whole mainland grid is covered in them , its getting beyond a joke
Paul Hexem
We have an abuse report function for this- abuse of region resources. LL really needs to get off their ass and get on this.
Jelly Doll
Paul Hexem where did I put the emoji for this ...
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