Can't you just download all the names to have ever been used on every server into an Excel file or into CSV and have them pick a name from that list each set? It won't be connected to the game. Solves this problem immediately. If it isn't random it will be figured out fast and then the purpose is defeated.

Shutup with your damn good ideas. They aren't welcome here! *shakes fist*

PS. I like his idea :P

my good ideas are summarily shot down, why wouldnt his be, also?

lol. Bots are good and I think COULD help with my concern of people getting farmed out of playing earth. On the same hand I think the bots should evolve so they are not the new farm land and must finds to farm to have a good finish as said by kingme. I am sure it is complicated but props for working on it

Yea, I'd like to have a continuum from awesome to n00bish bots.

So far I've gotten the n00bish bots part working i think ;)

Speaking of, how *are* the bots working out this last reset?

seemed better, bummer that they dont buy 9000$ tech anymore. it does however seem more stable with the spread out buying instead of all at once.

Because he's the Nigerian Nightmare and everyone likes a good nightmare every now and then! :P

So:

- non-zero end turns
- better naming
- joining of GDI randomly?

surely there were other things that were important to the express community (other than attacking &etc heh)

more def.

I think the volatility of the bushel market has been reduced because the bots sell bushels at ~$34 on the market and leave a huge pile of them there. Thats bad for farmers and gamblers.

Spies . 0 spies is one of the biggest giveaways its a bot and also most cashers get spied out because the gains too good

more def, definitely reasonable

spies, hmk, that's reasonable

bushels@34, i can reduce the number of farmers

cashers, i can make them spend more money on def

and stop them selling bushels below 32. that hurts many and benefits only few.

qz you're definitely moving in the right direction with these suggestions.

Thank you!

I think the next step should be from noobish bots to noobish attacker bots. i don't care if they fail their attack, just as long as they attack. doesn't even have to do some spying. maybe do random attacks based on nw divided by a constant number? for example, 1M nw divided by 2 (constant), means attacking with 500k jets.

how about bots buying defense after people attack them? i wouldn't mind seeing people failing attack on bots. :p