How 'bout a method of communicating with all bots you're tied to? This would not directly allow for tie feeding and would only send through ties in which you're connected to as a multibot. It, additionally, would be sent prior to direct communication methods.
If this seems like it'd give tiefeeders too much of an advantage, you could limit to just sending to one memory location... aka .tievalall and .tierecall (30 .tievalall store would make any bots you're connected with have 30 *.tierecall = basically)
Additionally, could .multi perhaps return the number of bots you're connected to that way? Aka if you're tied with 3 bots and have been for so and so cycles (I forget how long it takes exactly... somewhere between 20-50 cycles!) then *.multi will return 3.
Thanks for reading this. Additionally, if I haven't said this in the past a looong time ago, thank you so very much, Numsgil (I think he's the one that added this! if not then I redirect my thanks to whoever did!), for allowing mathematic functions to work in conditions.