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Doesn't really solve botting though. In fact, this might make it even worse, if you ``own'' a pixel longer than the cooldown to set a pixel, once you get a pixel, you set up a bot to refresh it every 5 minutes. The map becomes mostly static very quickly, and if no art got in quickly, I mean static in both senses of the term.

If the ownership is shorter than the cooldown, then the botting game just becomes clicking every pixel until you own one, then finding someone (really a bot on a different account) to take over for you.

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