People have been auto playing mir for years now in one way or another with macros and paid levellers if you not doing it yourself manually then your auto playing. Even some of the people saying no to it on here I've see using macros so bit hypocritical for them to say no to the feature because the only reason to do so for them is because they don't want that fair playing field to be availible to everyone else.
As other have said oldschools numbers speak for themselves really and imo only a small part of the players are on the game because of the auto the reason they stay and may even have started playing is because the owner and his team put in a lot of time and effort tweaking, and adding stuff more so than half-assed GM's like Jesus who just rerelease the same old crap every few months to milk the cash from the chumps on lomcn.
I think 8 hours a day auto being earnable is fair and you can store up to 2 days worth this would allow for anyone who works to have a fair shake at any server but again I think if any server uses auto play then they need other features within the game to offset the auto part and enguage the players to keep them interested and give them something to aim for.