Unless any of you program, it's going to be very difficult to understand how perfecting an AI program to function as a player.

The current bot program has a series of functions. These functions execute every 140 mins. Will it stay like that forever? No. But to test the other functions some standard format time is given in the meantime. This is what happened with the buy tech function. It was given a variable of buying tech at $9999. This value is not meant to be permenant, but it is necessary to allow to see if the program is even capable of buying tech in the market without crashing. That is how many of the functions on these bots are. That's why you may have seen food at $27 @ one time.

At some point these variables will use some sort system to average market trends using the history function and sell at the appropriate price. I keep reading about the complaints of 'free land' w/o consequences. This will obviously change soon. It's not meant to be something permanent.

If you've noticed each set the bots have been improved: names generated, no longer defenseless, no longer massive amounts of cash on hand. As each set goes by the program will be improved; however!, just because the program (bot) buys tech at max price (regardless of price) doesn't mean you should devise a plan so as to exploit it.