Hi Folks,
I'm working on a bot too, basically in Java. carpealexdiem, i agree with you, but you can't force people to release it, as they want to keep the "gold" for theirselves.
So far, my bot is able to:
- Train the troops,
- Collect gold and elixir on mines and pumps,
- Search for an opponent in Bully mode,
- Read trophies, elixir storage, gold storage and dark elixir storage from the number on the screen (with good accuracy).
It's based on dynamic positions, so any base layout should work. I'm using image search for character recognition with very good accuracy, but the point is that it depends on emulator resolution.

EDIT : I could eventually train Tesseract right now, i'm going to use it for characters recognition now