I've been playing on the private server scene for a few years now starting just before Nost launched on a few servers. A problem I noticed especially on Warmane servers is they are flooded with bots. And I just started re-rolling on the Elysium server this week (Thursday) and have noticed a lot of BOTs on this server now, I never noticed them on Anathema or Darrowshire really.
Players "*******" and "******" I was able to follow, tag their mobs, and they'd sit and kill the beast over n over while I went and aggro'd a second target and killed it myself. I could follow them on their route and do this as long as I wanted. I put multiple tickets in-game and only once a <GM> Milltonic (I think that it) replied w/ "Hello hero" and then as I tried to speak he never replied and pulled down my ticket. My first ticket I made about the original botter "*******", I included a link to my forum post in my in-game post and the post was REMOVED from the forums after my in-game ticket was serviced with a blank in-game mail. Both players are on my friendlist and I see them freely logging huge hours of playtime freely bot leveling in remote areas.