I never bot and usually run with zero triggers. But lets say I roll a new conjurer today. Due to the enormous difference warded familiar/warrior familiar does for soloing (not many others play at the times I play so I cannot count on a group) then I must go for explore/observation (and a role, preferably with a really strange story as that gives more xp).

So this means I must hit htos, hamsah seaport etc. with every character I roll. And as I don't know what gives explore/observation xp I spend hours looking at the same things with every char. I look at every drawer, every bookcase and pretty much every mob. This time not spent interacting, rp-ing or anything like that.

I understand the thought behind it and as someone who spends most of his time exploring and challenging myself to see how much I can do solo it is a nice thought. But to be honest, most of it is like weapons practice. You find out the most optimal way and then you do that with every character. I bet you hit Trothon etc. with all characters too but the difference is that you know what to look at while I still need to look at everything just in case I miss something.

To do like you (imms) did with weapons/defenses practice; making it more difficult to do but keeping the advantage of spamming just makes people more likely to bot/cheat. So if you make it even more difficult for me to hit those exploration points I will of course not think that it will be more fun to spend even more hours spamming (or spending an hour going through an area looking at drawers, tables and mobs and then getting 0 xp because I was the wrong level).

This will not make me less likely to cheat. This will make me more likely to think: I have a limited time in cf and all that time spent spamming (exploration, skills, spells whatever) is time I don't do what I think is fun (interaction, rp, pk, real exploration). So why not look up possible wand spots instead of trying to look at 200 places? Or why not bot the hamsah boats instead of spending 2 real life hours just sitting there and waiting?