# Eve Bots - are they a bad thing, is CCP complicit in their use?

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**Created:** [October 27, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-bots-are-they-a-bad-thing-is-ccp-complicit-in-their-use/34538 "2017-10-27T10:09:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Salvos\_Rhoska](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salvos_rhoska/32/14128_2.png) [@Salvos\_Rhoska](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salvos_Rhoska)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-bots-are-they-a-bad-thing-is-ccp-complicit-in-their-use/34538/1570 "2018-03-15T06:22:02Z")

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> [@Steve\_Ronuken](#):
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> [https://www.eveonline.com/article/p4xce3/security-update-february-2018](https://www.eveonline.com/article/p4xce3/security-update-february-2018)
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> > With the March release we’ll be extending restrictions so that these accounts will also be unable to extract skillpoints.
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> (character transfers were already blocked.)

Excellent!

Thank you for the update.  
I had been remiss and not checked updates recently.

The itemised ban figures is a great improvement to the report and the SP extraction restriction will go a long way towards preventing them resetting up bot operations at very little cost.

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