Barney, thanks for supporting my plan. That really cheer me up :)
Well, captcha dont have to be that bad as you think. It is not an advertise, it is not something that would be too annoying to make people stop playing this game.
Already you have queues reaching 1200 people. Banning and kicking bots didn't helped in many games which names i wont say because of reasons, but if you really want an examples i can give some.
Well designed captcha system would prevent people from mindlesly bot hunting/lvling. This destroy game for those who dont use bots - you ask how? Well, simply because botting people can spend more time in game to catch pokemons or lvl them up.
Captcha is the only thing that bot can't handle. With proper explaination and putting it in reasonable amounts of times, this is the best solution so far to prevent people from botting. I'm truly interested why there is no proper bot solution so far when project PRO is having quite a bit of time.
This was only a suggestion, but if you want me to tell you which games bots ruined a game, i can say several examples.
Kicking and banning bot accounts in free-to-play game will never stop people from botting.
Also even if there are bots that catch captcha, many bot programms can't so you would highly decrease amount of botting people anyway.
The only one thing against anti bot system is:
Usually short-term popular games want from people to cheat, because when people cheat, they want to play this game - there was many many games popular for one or two years just because many many people had an access to cheats/bots. This is old trick, but it is not good for long term projects. Bots should be destroyed.