How You Can Detect Zeus (and Other Shameless Gods) At Work

First of all: I never had a copy of it, nor asked to have.What stated below coming from daily experience, looking at several maps on fire.

Simplest way to detect Zeus at work

Let's have a map on fire.
Suddenly you see fires go out very very fast, and no comp online: this means that landowners are cleaning fires, and they do all at the same time.
If it took one hour to torch the map, you will see fires disappear quite completely in 10 mins or less.
I say 'quite' and not 'completely' couse you can notice that last column (on the right) and last row (at the bottom) of the map are still burning: this is the second trace that Zeus and its users leave behind: Zeus works on 7x7 squares (I am not that Tech Guru, so maybe not correct) and this does not allow to deal with those parts of the map, that have to be sorted manually.
Just after fires are out (again, except last column and last row), you will see all landholders pop online, clean manually what still burning, and then starting the renovation task, Zeus aided, obviously.
All will take, again, 10-15 mins.

What else Zeus can do?

This a good question.
It should be able to log comps 24/7.
And according to some private infos, he'd be able to do tranfers for you.
But I think these are different scripts.
I have witnessed fast building according to optimized schemas.
Easy to detect: just take a look at the way they build free plots or bombed plots and see that they do in a way that none, playing manually, would do. And above all, always the same way: one plot by one.
Another feature should be the one to have a comp monitoring the map, and able to auto put out fires as they are lit.
Easy to detect too, fires go out in the same order that they were lit. Being different comps to be fired/firestartered, they cannot say it was done from events ;).
About bombing, i have studied some logs from Galway that, few weeks ago, was screamed to 10% and completely CTOed by ten comps working at the meantime.
Last column, and last row, again, not treated as the rest of the map.
So it seems evident that the tool can be used to attack too.

Where I did see it at work.

Lands affected by this plague were:

Olympus, Melbourne, SaoPaulo, Hobart, Quito, Brisbane, Hull, Cheyenne, Salvador, Galway

Some of them were liquidated, others changed owner, some more could have been affected but i have no evidence. When this post is blogged, Zeus is running in Melbourne again ;)

All the above, again, simply coming from experience.