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Warp to 0 AP is not a game breaking hack / exploit.
It doesn't impact gameplay negatively for the vast majority of players. With the exception of suiciders and gate camps, and clearly improves gameplay for over 2000 users.
I realise at this point I sound like I'm in favour of it, and possibly I am, however my personal stance is irrelevant.

Ratting bots, mission running bots, courier bots, market bots and mining bots....these things adversely impact my game play.

Someone getting 30 jumps 15 minutes quicker I don't give a ****.

In that case it's up to CCP to contact the developer of the software, and tell him what extend he's allowed to go and what he's not, there's alot of gray areas currently. Gray areas are not good.

That's purely opinion, and it's wrong.
It is an exploit as decided by CCP and the ELUA. The bans are proof that CCP consider it an exploit.
That it negatively impacts a single player is enough. That fact you want to be able to do it is irrelevant.
It provides imbalance. Piracy is a valid deliberate play style in Eve - auto to zero interferes with that game play style in a matter that the game manufacturer considers serious enough to ban people for.
You can petition CCP to change their stance on this as is your right - but right now it is a bannable exploit.

Except it took 16 pages to get to the point that CCP said that, and prior to that involved several third party developers who were scratching their heads at what CCP stated on page 1.

You didn't watch the last stream did you? CCP Works along with thirdparty developers to improve their game.
Please go somewhere else unless you got something constructive to say.

There's never going to be allowed Automation in eve, there have to be a player doing it.

Only what type of automation we are talking about?
Im talking abut of automation level already present in eve.
For example auto reloading weapons - this is automation level that im thinking about.

As I've explained to the incursion community I'm a senior FC for, in the long run, CCP doesn't need the EULA to ban anyone. Hell, as has been pointed out, in some countries you could print the EULA out and use it for toilet paper for all the validity it has. In the long run, the EULA and the TOS are simply there for a convenient excuse for CCP to point to when they do ban someone, for the inevitable QQ that will follow, they can simply point to it and say "That's why, now go away."

In short, don't go doing anything drastic in regards to the game unless your already doing something they have made abundantly clear they are head hunting for to ban people over. And if you are doing so, you should stop doing so, as they will catch you when they figure out how to detect it, it's just a matter of time and coding, after all. And at that point, you only have yourself to blame for the ban.

Now, I'm done with this thread. Those of you who are intelligent and friendly, (and enjoy my posting style or whatever) feel free to follow my continueing forum posts, atm I am primarily focused on the Amarr BS, L Laser, and Resist Nerf threads, but I keep an eye out for other dev posts in case it's anything I want to know about changes to our beloved game :) .

Maybe it's just a language barrier, but there are a few questions that are still not answered.
I know that CCP is primarily aiming against botters and that I won't get a statement on specific multiboxing tools, but it would be really nice to actually get a GM response on the following questions:

1. are tools that repeat / broadcast mouse-movement and keyboard strokes from one client (that's controlled by a human) to multiple clients, bannable?
2. some tools can be set up to use video overlays that can show information from other clients (shield/armor/hull HUD, weapons, overview, etc) on your main monitor. is that allowed? it doesn't change any game files afaik
3. what about a launcher that starts multiple clients?

There's a fundamental difference between a macro and 'automation'.
A macro might press a key or execute a series of user input at some interval and do it forever (or however long you tell it). for loops as an example
But the moment you introduce if else statements or other types of logic that will respond to changing input it becomes a bot.