Auto attack was a major pro of the old school tales of pirates and I believe it should not be treated as botting. Having to manually level up a ship or grind for misc resources such as elven fruit, blurry bps and others isn't the pirates way. Takes a lot of effort and draws people away from the actual enjoyable features which are the player versus player and player versus boss. If this new ruling is in effort to reduce the server lag it has to be mention that most users have 8-20 accounts online for fairy coins and the fortune trees. Afk gathering is one of the best features the game offers. Lastly manually gathering every single resource is pushing the player product value to outshine the market value of mall points. A solid example is that in-game right now 100imps sell for 1-1,2m while a stack (x99) of flash bombs level 1 worth 2-3m