Is farming accounts illegal?

@Ringolinmo Hello! Welcome to the forum! About having multiple cities, here's the asnswer from EA;

You can have or build more than one city but trading huge number of items or items farming is not allowed. This is clear violation.

It's legal to have multiple cities, but it's not allowed to use them as feeders. 

Hope this helps. happy building!

I have a friend who farms accounts with AI, he uses about 100 accounts to create ten stellar clubs that are more active than I can imagine. Each club about five of the members are his, the rest of the people are other people, war veterans, not played by him.

In my opinion, that ain't hacking, that's just being clever, cuz none of the accounts hacked at all, all the cash were earned fair and square, just by AI!

He does this by coding with Python, and creating plug-ins. He wanted to do this because before, he also played just like us, but it was just too much effort keeping his clubs alive and gettin' plumbobs when being an IB high school student. I mean, how would you feel if you had an exam tomorrow, but you have to help your club win a do-or-die war? Well, sure, he could quit the game altogether, but that would mean erasing all the hard work.

Each account is played by AI 21-23 hours a day for city advancements, CoM and War rank level-ups, etc. Got to city lvl 18 within one day, Got to War Rank 5 in one war, usually makes 50 war deliveries a war. Now about War Rank 50. Can't be beaten.

His best club is in Top 1000 or so, Arena 6. Last week the club was in a war, won about 3 800 000 to 2 700 000. Both clubs were NOT hacked, everything earned fair and square. My friend had a math mid-term exam the day the war was gonna end. He got a 99 on the exam, curse that silly error. He didn't spend one minute that day playing the game or tryna win that war, his AI accounts got it all taken care of. 

I later visited the other club - the club my friend won against the day he was taking his exam. Funny thing is, the members there said that they all played the game for at least one year, mostly two, and they play for five hours a day, cuz wars in Arena 6 are very tough. Very stressful coordination when pulling jackpots and umbrellas. 

Like I said, I don't think that's illegal. But I found that even very trivial things like having a second account CAN BE called as "cheating"! Will he be arrested and sent to prison? Will SimCity contact the FBI and giant helicopters and armed police vans surround him once they find his location? Will Secret Service send out assassins like Kellerman and Hale to terminate him?