Why are so many people on this server especailly in the zerg tribe using bots? All the barbarians around them are sub 200 even 100 in some places.
With due respect, you can't substantiate this comment. Players do not just farm their own area they farm all over the map and you don't know who is farming where. You are just as likely to find a player from across the map farming a barb as you are going to find the player next door farming it. Your accusation implies that only the zergs farm around their own villages and this is quite obviously incorrect. Its a Noob comment to be honest. Do you only farm the barbs around your villages? I would guess/hope not. You can't stop other players farming your barbs, and guess what, they do - even the players 4 provinces away.
Many players send out 45+ attacks per village. Personally, I don't like farming the same village, so once my farm runs are done my farming is all over the map. I don't think i am unusual in doing this. I have seen tribes strategically farm around enemy villages which could be happening here.
Basically, players can farm wherever they want and they DO farm wherever they want. No experienced player is going to be farming his nearby barbs over and over again getting minimal resources. It is a waste of time.
Players in the core and the barbs in the core always get over farmed, by everyone.
So to answer your question 'why are so many players using bots?' we don't know that many or ANY players are using bots and your reason for saying it is flawed. You definitely have no justification in attributing the cause of small barbs to one tribe just because of proximity. If you have proof of someone using a bot then you should raise a ticket because it is against the game rules. Please don't start throwing wild unsubstantiated accusations out on the forum. If your only 'proof' is that the local barbs are small then this means nothing. It would be like me saying that your barbs are bigger because YOU personally do not farm them.