# Why is CCP punishing real players while looking the other way on botting?

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**Created:** [May 8, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-is-ccp-punishing-real-players-while-looking-the-other-way-on-botting/511200 "2026-05-08T00:50:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sonder\_Majus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sonder_majus/32/495253_2.png) [@Sonder\_Majus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sonder_Majus)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2026, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/why-is-ccp-punishing-real-players-while-looking-the-other-way-on-botting/511200/39 "2026-05-11T05:59:16Z")

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Maybe…? 😃 New MER was just published.

> [@Monthly Economic Report - April 2026](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/monthly-economic-report-april-2026/511406/1):
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> The Mineral Price Index increased by 9% month-over-month.

> **Graph**
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/d/9/5/d95c287f0d5b17eedc3e91cb5fd52702bceda38b.png)

We’ll have to see if FC is happy with this, how the sandbox is going to react.

It seems that this is exactly the crux of @Vynn_Gravonere’s complaint. The value of mining coincides very nicely with all the balance changes. It is very unlikely, that changes in mineral prices are driven by botting.

So, the problem I have is, that they don’t consider the sandbox as a whole and use botting as the sole factor here, essentially as a red herring. It is very hard to have a sane discussion on botting. Especially as botting is this unquantified bogeyman.

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