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Hello whackers!

There's always been a contentious discussion about the use of auto-clickers for Bush Whacker 2. The crux being that auto-clickers give some players an unfair advantage when competing in the rankings. Detecting and preventing auto-clickers is difficult and easily avoided, and is often much more work than it is useful.

Our company's other two games are "Idle Games", and auto-clickers are a constant discussion in that genre. What we've done in those games is add official in-game features that function like auto-clickers, to level the playing field. They're easier to use than auto-clickers, we have control over how they function, and they actually add a fun new dimension to the core gameplay. In Crusaders of the Lost Idols they're called "Task Masters", and in Champions of the Forgotten Realms they're called "Familiars", and in both you can unlock multiple of them and drag them onto where you want them to click.

So in that fashion, I've been considering adding an "infinite whack" or something, that would function much like how the auto-clickers do for those that use them. My off-the-cuff design is as follows:

- At a certain level, you can unlock the "Smart Whack" or "Infini-Whack". It would appear next to your Quick/Mana/Power Whacks when you're in a field.
- When you turn this on, you will Mana Whack until you run out of mana, then Quick Whack until you run out of energy, and whenever your Power fills up, you would power whack a random bush. As soon as you have enough resources to do another Mana or Quick Whack, it would do so, so you could continue in this state as long as the game is running.
- You could interrupt it at any time.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.