May I recommend these additions to the bots on EXPRESS:

1. Add spies. (At least 15 SPAL)
2. Have them buy food off market to stock.
3. Have them join GDI
4. Once 3 is implemented (have them buy turrets/jets only).
5. Place larger amounts of turns of tech on market. I believe when I read the code it was set to 20. (It should be much higher). (The more turns you spend on placing on market the fewer turns teching).
6. Add a variable in which causes the bots to buy more units in bulks rather than in small quantities.


Anyone else is free to add their opinions. BTW, I posted this in EXPRESS because this server is ran very different than from other servers.
NOTE: I would gladly help type up the code if you took the time to list each function/variable and what they do, there's just too many.

whats the point of them joining GDI?

So he doesn't have to buy troops to defend against bot killers. Right now the code is written so that they buy troops to protect against GS. And troops eat up food and $$$ per turn. Not to mention when he plans to add the ability to attack back, the bots would have to use more oil.

lol bot killers? how many bot killers are there? how many bots can you kill in 1 set. I think that's the least concern

Then why do you join GDI?

However you respond- the same thing can happen to the bots. It's simply cheaper to maintain a defense with strictly turrets.

I dont think the bots care if they get suicided on.
And if the bots are in GDI and they get multi tapped, they wont have the tanks to AB you back.

I think bots should not never be in GDI, this gives them an all round defence and one day when they are able to fight back, people will be afraid to multitap if they have troops and tanks.

By running just pure jets/turrets, people will just farm them.

They can respond in the same way players do- sell stock and buy tanks to AB or troops to GS. You don't need tanks and troops immediately on hand to deter farming.

Example:
It's easy to program if player 1 attacks bot x2 then store 360; turn GOVT to tyranny; use spy ops to get player 1 info-> and calculate best way to kill them.

The bots shouldnt just be 'one' way

I think the overall goal is to have them act and play like humans. Some go allbjetters, some go gdi, some play defense with minimal jets to bottom feed. By masking the bots, eventually, they will have an effect that people wont be able to tell the difference...

Butthats just my two cents

In code, the bots should have an 'x' amount of options to choose from on how they operate themselves.

Just another thought

I totally agree.

I totally agree.

In php it would be simple like how he has them select which govt.

if(player_attacks_bot_x2){
$rand = rand(0,5);
switch($rand){
case $rand == 1: kill player; break;
case $rand == 2: send message saying "that land is on the house"; break;
case $rand == 3: send nukes; break;
case $rand == 4 : AB his country; break;
case $rand == 5: spy OPS / or retal; break;
}
}

Who is this Celphi?

Care to introduce yourself a bit. You seems to know everything about EE and even the game coding.

Sorry I've never seen your name or even playing EE but out of sudden you appear and with more than 700+ posts.

Just trying to know you. ;)

+1

He's introduced himself a while ago, I'm surprised you missed it, bud 😜

Oh sorry maybe I just miss it...I seen him posting numerous feedback on the forum. Just wanna get to know him

I'm a bot killer, better you than me
Bot killer, fluff bot brutality!

Hey man. I don't mind giving a short bio. I played this game back in 1998 (technically called Earth 2025) for about a 1/2 year. I was horrible at it; but, the game was fun. There were far more players playing it back then too. One day (back this past May/June) I was on google and somehow came across Earth Empires. I assumed it was the same game and gave it shot. I finished horribly. I'm very competitive., as I'm sure some people on the forums have already discovered. I also like to avoid conventional thinking methods.

That is why I began as a dictator farmer. (aka Seven of Nine). I posted lots of assumptions, many which turned out to be way off mark but more importantly I was learning the functionality of the game but primarily by formulas. The veterans here can basically gauge a strategy simply off experience., but I play the game strictly on calculating. The problem with calculating is that there's a seemingly infinite amount of solutions or possibilities. That is why I like the bot project. These bots can calculate much faster than I.

A little background of myself: My mom is a senior programmer in asp.net but as a child I was exposed a lot to programming. I learned BASICA back in the day and it carried over to VB6 (Visual Basic 6) which is a more modern day programming language. I never took up computers as a career because I prefer it as my hobby. One thing about programming is that they almost all function the same way. Only the syntax is different. (In VB6 if you want a variable to have a string you add a $ sign, but in php a dollar sign means something completely different.) <<-- confusing to the non-programmer im sure. The point is that I can learn php rather quickly and that's what this bot language is written in. The biggest problem in reading the code is the number of variables he (QZJUL) has assigned.

Imagine if i had A = Greg, B = Tom, C = Sally, D = Sue, Greg = Sue - Sally, Sally = Tom., then said Sue = A + B / C but only when A is less than B. Confusing right? Yes, with time you can figure it out,. but theres a ton of variables like that in his coding. Fortunately he named most of the variables with good names so it's much easier to follow. But what would you say "bu_tr" means? Or '$c' means when it's used differently within each function. (Sorry if I lost you again).

Anyhow, it's a fun hobby. I'm hoping to help this game, because I do enjoy it as well as the challenge. I'm taking the LSAT in Feb, and that's my main focus with this game as my distraction. I'm hoping to do well on it. Oh- and I'm 34 army veteran, now a reservist, fitness fanatic, eats healthy, trying to learn break dancing too, haha., 2000 ELO chess player, mostly to myself, sympathizer of the underdog and slightly more conservative than liberal.

Good plan, I was planning to add ~1-2BPT of indies minimum, all set to spies, once i've actually written the manage API


Above $2B right? ;)

Also the plan, after I build the GDI API -- caveat, i want *SOME* to join GDI, but not all; depending on how they play. I need to use something to figure this stuff out at some point

Oh? I do want this to work on Alliance/FFA as well

Hmmm. K.

They try to buy in bulk, but sometimes they miscalculate and go back for more




Yea, I'll start adding comments, ive been... occupied... the last week ;) (new gf!)

Bstrong is correct :)

$c is the country object! =D I guess i should point that out in comments lol... but yea, I'll move that direction, slowly

@qzjul:
Congrats on new gf.

Have the bots buy bushels before 2billion. I would say about every 100 million cash. Right now they are mega targets for bomb banks and landgrabs with insane cash returns.

I'm basically starting from the beginning of your code and trying to work through it piece by piece. Several of the terms are new to me., but I'm getting through it. Some of it makes no sense. For an example:

function rand_name(){


switch(3){ //rand(0,100)%7){
case 0: return guild_name();
case 1: return fantasy_name();
case 2: return wow_name();
case 3: return nickname();
case 4: return vampirename();
case 5: return pirate_name();
case 6: return projectname();
}
}

Basically case 0 1 and 2 will always get skipped. Makes no sense to me to have them if they always get skipped.

I read that last part as 'butt hats'

That's cuz he's a dirty roofer and is the way we interpret his typing errors when he makes them :P

oh fluff, did i not take out my testing code? lol... good catch Celphi!

Name thing fixed :) this is why my code needs checking from time to time :)

Found another-

You're missing:

$c = get_advisor();

under function play_farmer_turn(&$c)

otherwise, $c->protection will never = 0.

i placed in there out_data($c->protection) and it never outputs 0.

Celphi, could you drop me a few billion $ while you are at it?

haha. just so everyone knows- i don't have coding access to the EXPRESS server. all my coding is done on the AI server.

Oh damn Celphi, my experience is almost Identical to yours! Both with the game and programming fluff, starting with VB6 etc.

For the first 2-3 months after I came back in December '13, I was tracking down formulas and whipping together my own stuff in php to try and automate some of it for me. Still, I pretty much am opening up dozens of calculator instances a day playing on multiple servers.

Any chance your bot code is open sourced? :D

Oh my god

I don't mind showing you what I have. Are you on IRC? Maybe we can work the code at same time.