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by yifanl 316 days ago
They have the user count from the dev, 2 million daily users shouldn't be generating billions of requests unless a good portion of them are botting.
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Why not? This is tile requests right, not login requests or something, so shouldn't a single user be expected to consume a few thousand zipping around the map while looking at drawings overlaid?

I'm sure there is some botting, it's basically guaranteed, but I wouldn't be surprised if nearly half the traffic was "legitimate". The bots don't normally need to reload (or even load) the map tiles anyways.