1. is about fighting
-Currently from what i can see on my server Magentum there are not many fights happening and i can imagine that the same / similar situation is happening on the other servers as well... My suggestion is limiting the ammount of army points that can be in one battle - example limit it to 10b army points, this way the players with smaller armies dont have to fear someone rolling over them with big numbers, but the fight could be even and this could bring people to fight more. Considering that you can still TRAIN more army over the 10b army points limit this makes you be ready for the next battle in case you lose and more action will take place
2. is about the bot
-From my experience on multiple servers usually most of the top players actually use the bot. My solution is this: instead of banning the bot put the functions from the bot into the game - meaning auto farming/resource transfers/auto building/.... make it a paid service but instead of making it be paid for BG make it be paid for real money for a reasonable price (it has to be lower than the bot price otherwise people would still pay the bot instead) - this way its win win for everyone - players CAN and DONT HAVE TO pay for the "bot" , its 100% legal and the money goes to the server/game
Ofc im very happy about any comments / answers etc...
Have a nice day everyone