Unless any of you program, it's going to be very difficult to understand how to perfect 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 at 140 forever? Probably not. But in order to test the other functions, some standard format time is given to all the bots in the meantime.

This is what happened with the buy tech function. The buy tech function was given a variable of buying tech at $9999. This value was not meant to be permenant, but the value was necessary to see if the program is even capable of buying tech in the marketplace without crashing. That is how many of the functions on these bots are. Most of these functions are incomplete and in their infancy.That's why you may have seen food at $27 @ one time.

At some point these variables will use a better system to average market trends and sell units/tech at the appropriate price. I keep reading about the complaints of 'free land' w/o consequences. This will obviously change soon too. 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.

I address this exploit more so because it has the potential to change the entire server drastically. Which it has.