RE: Curious about the Steem Monsters 'miners'
There have been loads of conversations in Discord about the bots. The developers know about them and they are not against them.
I was able to find a script when I was curious some months ago. It was written in python if I remember rightly. however, the bots don't all work in the same way but, for the most part, they just pick good general winning teams, play to a certain level and then lost their way down again.
There was one which would read your cards and then play the exact same cards at a higher level. The developers didn't like that one and added the setting so you can stop your cards being read.
When I was curious about them I easily found one ring that contained 28 accounts all playing at the same time.
Believe it or not it seems to be better since DEC and resource credits were introduced although I notice there are a lot more red team bots these days. 😂
I heard about them being able to see your cards before the battle. There was also an issue with knowing what was in card packs. They had to sort those out. As the games are controlled by their own servers it ought to be possible to have some way to limit what bots can do. I just like beating bots when I play :)