botting has become less populair among the conquer online community's since TQ implented some kind of bot system in the game itself called "Auto-Hunt" wich is pretty usefull.
I'm not sure if there are public bots out there atm but if you checkout the site of Conquer Chrome (bot) it seems that they are working on a new bot (idk if they quitted the project since it been a while they released that info"
Now and then i still see botters within the official co servers but my guess is that those bots are private but like i said i'm not sure if there are public bots atm since idc.
what tq did with the game? who gives a fuck, they ruined it years ago and are still busy with destroying conquer online, lets hope conquer online 3.0 is better but my guess is, not.
But to be fair, if conquer still had the same shit as in 2006 for example they would be dead anyways cuz same shit for years = boring, main reason why games come with newer expansions or versions of their game.