Thanks for the update, qzjul!

Did all this start this set? Or are you waiting for next?

Starting 20 minutes ago :)

I have no problem fixing the bot behaviour live if it's obviously being silly.

if ffa-bots would stop selling bushels under 37.

As it stands now, their naming scheme is a bit too easy to catch imho.

As it stands now, their naming scheme is a bit too easy to catch imho.

Isn't the point of the bots to provide extra land to express so new people don't get farmed as bad? This provides a better game play experience as well as stabilizing the market some.

There's been a few questions as to the goals of this project, so I'll try to outline my thoughts here.

NPC's on Main Servers Goals
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There have been many instances of players stating that many of the stresses on the servers would be lessened with a significantly larger country base. These include:
- not enough total land on the server
- not enough "targets" (not enough countries in small alliances or untagged)
- new players being farmed/discouraged from playing
- a lack of market liquidity on small servers

The goals are thus:

A) Smooth the distribution of countries out (towards the low end especialy), so that there is a more natural curve to average land and networth, rather than an abrupt dropoff below the major clans; this will provide more "targets" for more people.

A.1) Caveat to that is that the "targets" should not be land farms; but should be able to retaliate, according to some probability.

A.2) Caveat is also that the bots should not be easily identifiable *as bots*; anonymity should keep people on their toes.

B) By providing many additional countries in the low end, shield/hide ACTUAL new players from being farmed to death.

C) Similar to B, by providing many additional countries in the low end, provide countries to be ranked against for ACTUAL new players, and targets for new players, so that they can participate in attacking, and also feel like they are making progress, in being able to go from say rank 1500 to rank 500 rather than perpetually being at rank 750 because of farming, lack of targets, and lack of other countries of similar skill.

D) By having many additional countries of a variety of strategies, add liquidity to the market on small servers -- for example, there is little demand for many less-used techs in tournament, making the prices likely to be volatile.

E) Similar to the above, provide liquidity during major events (server wars) by having a significant pool of unaligned countries still participate in the market.

F) Later goal: Make FFA strings able to compete together in FFA

G) Later goal: Make Teams to provide competition in Team server, and to provide small alliances to contend with in Alliance.

H) Later goal: Make small alliances (possibly able to accept/join human clans??) able to compete in alliance/ffa

I am a bit doubtful about the need for anonimity.

Do you have any hints & ideas i could throw in off the top of your head?

I remember him, wasn't that Horatio Humungous Codpiece?

imo the biggest giveaway is the 0 turns on hand.

I'm on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

Do a better job of randomizing their names, and make them blend in with real players as best as possible. Make it a gamble for hitting them, rather than having them be farmland with no consequences.

You can't win currently without farming the bots.

imo the biggest giveaway is the 0 turns on hand.

But to give every bot a name in its own and tie some kind of personality or special trait that is significant to its own would keep the randomness out there. Example, Bot#1 likes cars, so its country name is always dealing with cars in some way, Bot#2 likes pudding, so its country name is always dealing with pudding. Stuff like that. I am sure they are all run under 1 huge system and this would probably be hard to work in, I really don't know how the bot system works.