Thoughts? For those who have played in Alliance / Express or FFA, there have been bots there for a few sets.


What do you guys think?

not until they stop fluffing up market.

They are Definitely not ready for this server

No way jose. Unless you set them all to fire missile which tyhey will have many for after gdi break :)

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We don't wanna piss on this server too, do we now....

Is it not going over well on the others? I would think if they are balanced in strats, it would take the attack load off most of the real players who are now being multi tapped like crazy.

No harm in trying for 1 set.

Also if you slowly phased them in, we'd never know anyways.

BEcomes a farm-fest. People identify bots and then spend all reset farming them. It has ruined Express as "smart" people start juts doing this:
http://www.eestats.com/express/country/1
100% of his attacks are bots. Real Grabbing doesn't even exist anymore for some people

Maybe in Pimrary it works better if people grow out of humanitarian range from the bots quickly.

Serp, go play express for couple sets and report back to this topic ;-)

Hmmm well maybe your right. I'm not playing anymore than one country on this server though, so I'll take your word for it.

Don't want any bots on Primary man..
other than the farming, this is like one of the few servers where the market interaction is still fun..bots screw up the market too much in express

the bots in alliance seem alright

ironxxx: that's because half a server is warring (and heaviest farmers are amongst those) so bots can't screw up market (not that its screwed anyways since techs are selling at crappy price).

Seems like qz could create like 10 bots or something small and see their impact.

NO to bots.

Actually I was thinking about it. Humanenatarian in Primary is 4x right? Bots wouldnt be abused as much then.

Like I said to Serp, go play express couple sets and report back to this thread.

If you want a 300acre explore button join ALLIANCE / FFA / EXPRESS. Just say NO to bots!

is the pope catholic ? ;P

no

why would u want that, do not comprehend..

Well, I'll wait then until they're a little smarter ;)

What does anyone think about I think the bots will fall out of the 4x humane territory very fast.

Then it would be the weaker players who will grab them only. And these weak players are the vessles, and pass the land up to the top players threw them. I chanegd my mind. I think the bots arent ready for Express but are ok for Primary because of the humane territyory difference. A top player could never farm bots all round in the Primary. They wont hrut this server.

Good point Earf

k so given i fixed the *food* thing that celphi is on about, what now? haha

I say yes to trying bots here. I was thinking exactly what earf said as far as the upward land chain. The higher NW netters are going to outgrow the bots pretty quick, allowing the middle to lower NW countries to have more land to send up. I also don't think the market impact would be that noticeable either, given the amount of turns per day in primary. The only way to know is to try it for a set. :)

i think as long as bots don't try to keep the maket to low I mean with all sale items it always sucks when your playing any strat and your selling something at the going rate for my example oil your selling at 100 when the market is at 118 so you are pretty sure that your oil will be the next oil on the market so you can play your turns then BAM someone sells at 85? maybe to try to keep the market lower who knows but we or atleast I don't what a bot dumping a huge quantity of anything at a much lower price making you either wait it our or recall your goods and sell again in anther 4-6 hours.

I understand this is a game so when a real person undersells the market or dose a buy out witch doesn't happen on solo servers. Its is game play but when I bot dose it then that is a computer trying to control the free market.

Please don't screw up the farmers here too.



-your friendly neighborhood farmer.

What if they were self sufficient crap rainbows? Lol

there are rainbow bots on other servers and it makes situation worse.

how can they screw up markets if they presumably never get bigger than 5k acres or so?

After much contemplation, I have decided there will be bots in Primary. We will have 1 set to test their field worthiness.

I would like KoH to act as Turf Management, keep the bots safe and unmolested by land wh0res.

There are plenty of Market Masters in Primary, so the issues experienced elsewhere will likely find balance here.

For mid and low level countries, bots provide the ability to hone their SS and PS skills on bots, who as of yet do not retal, this could provide more than simple acreage. Many of the more experienced will move well above the bots so there is little to worry about. As far as suicides on the bots, whoever is dumb enough, or beyond bored, can waste their time throwing mud at the special needs kid waddling along the playground. It keeps them from ruining real player country's.

Essentially the food chain would be bots>low>mid>high>land wh0re

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selling stuffs at low price.

OK, but 10 countries at 5k won't be selling a whole lot of stuffs? Also, can't qz make 3 of them cashers, 3 farmers 3 indy ya know to balance themselves out?

he tries to balance them but it takes awhile.

There's only one way to find out....

If you do put them in as a trial, please don't tell anyone. Just slip them in.

Only way to do that is by giving the bots less obvious names. A snarky phrase or song title seems innocuous enough. Of course they don't retal multi taps, so it will eventually be exposed as to their true identity.

Denied, this is my netting playground.

Now that you explained it, the idea doesn't sound to bad, more farms to attack is a good thing

Hmm... but isn't part of the challenge not easily farming. It turns a pvp game into a pve.

well the challenge would still definitely be there at the mid-higher levels i think

Winner winner chicken dinner!, best post of this thread!

Yes we need botsss here

yeah but its not pve because you still have other people around

Alright, well perhaps I'll try some then.

Just don't say how many and make their names NOT obvious so the farming doesn't get ridiculous and fk up the server dynamics as it did on express, please.

I concur :-)

bots are bad