Thread:Taihen da!/@comment-24229449-20141027065112/@comment-15723493-20141106232524

That's probably because at that time microcontrollers such as the Arduino, Cubieboard, Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard aren't as powerful and prevalent at that time.

Also it takes around 2-3 months of time to level an account to 81.

Also, in the first SS event (Orochi Winter vacation), there was no need to run bots at all because of the "magic stones" bug. You can attack someone for a stone, regardless if the person have it or not, if you win, you will get the stone "magically". Hence it was sufficient to just attack inactive bots (using Chrome) to complete sets.

Just look around the Orochi event page comments for proof (e.g on page 6: "I won battle for one sealstone but TWO players steal from me at the SAME time...but I ONLY HAVE ONE sealstone...WHY ZYNGA???? ")

Another reason why bots appear at certain times may be because the bot owner is active and exploring with his bots to generate stones for his acct to steal from (releasing useless ones in the process which are snatched up by players).

Anyway, ty for the advice on vpn, total noob on that and after trying out during the Halloween offer, I decided that vpn was useless lol >.<