# 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:** ![Anjyl\_Took](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/anjyl_took/32/31967_2.png) [@Anjyl\_Took](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Anjyl_Took)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-bots-are-they-a-bad-thing-is-ccp-complicit-in-their-use/34538/570 "2018-01-19T10:11:02Z")

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> [@Teckos\_Pech](#):
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> Coevolution suggests…

Bot can’t evolve, they don’t have random mutations that then get naturally selected. They are in-fact designed by an intelligence, for a specific purpose. Then they are redesigned to fit their changing environment.

Or if I may quote the mighty Gadget:

> [@The real reasons player population is declining](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-real-reasons-player-population-is-declining/51517/59):
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> This statement make the scientist in me cringe… This applies only to biological evolution. Not so much on the social level. –Cringing Gadget

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