Something like this would be much more resource intensive since the server has to do a lot of the work that the clients normally do. It might be less network intensive, but it would certainly cost more memory and CPU on the server itself.
I am not sure I can understand what fun it would be to have bots playing when I'm not online though. I guess I am one of the ones that "doesn't get it".
Why not just write a script to tweak your DB as if a bot was actually playing. I mean, you're offline anyway. If all you care about is the results, you don't need to actually make the server to do anything, since your bot won't have any visible impact anyway. You could look at your DB and see that the bot earned 5,000 plat over the night and gained 5 levels of XP.
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