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Post by Tomsik »

I started to make bot for wesnoth lobby, right now it's very baisic, but works. I won't release sources to everyone because more than one bot in lobby would be.. scary..
I think it would be pointless to make bot that doesn't do anything useful, so i want to make bot that actually does something, problem is that i have no idea what it could do - i ask for ideas.
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Post by Elvish_Pillager »

Spam labels? Spam private messages? Repeatedly join games and leave after they start? Repeatedly host games and then kick everyone on turn 3? There's all kinds of ideas...

...thank you for not releasing the source. :P
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Elvish Pillager wrote:Spam labels? Spam private messages? Repeatedly join games and leave after they start? Repeatedly host games and then kick everyone on turn 3?
There is already enough of it. :P
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Post by Anyar »

Host regulated(as in each game is the same map, time limit, gpv, etc.) games. Maybe if you had it log results(Winner, statistics) and make these accessible through "commands"(in the same way irc bots are controlled), it would be something cool.
An example:

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<anyar>/msg wesbot wesbot-scores
*whisper from bot* Won: 1 Lost: 4 Tied: 2 Statistics(an average): 313/371 Rank: 11
<anyar>wesbot-hi-scores
<wesbot>Top ranked players are:
1. blah
2. blah
3. blah
4. blah
5. blah
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Post by Tomsik »

Looks like nice idea, problem is that making it host anything would need quite some code (well.. i could copy some, but not all) and i would preffer it to be lobby-only bot. :?
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Post by Elvish_Pillager »

Log the activity of other players. Record how long each player has been idle.
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Post by Darth Fool »

If you want it to be a lobby only bot, I would say draw inspiration from wesbot on irc#wesnoth-dev. For example, being able to say when the bot last saw such and such a user and what the last thing they said was. Maybe keep track of who goes into what games.

To me, a far more interesting option would be having a bot that can join and play games. If/when I get the dfool AI working, I may try doing that myself.
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And give it a conversational AI so it can impersonate a human... :twisted:
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Post by Noy »

I think tenatively is a good thing, and we've discussed it around the MP channel with tomsik. Some problems and issues need to be ironed out, but I think its a positive step.
Anyar wrote:Host regulated(as in each game is the same map, time limit, gpv, etc.) games. Maybe if you had it log results(Winner, statistics) and make these accessible through "commands"(in the same way irc bots are controlled), it would be something cool.
An example:

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<anyar>/msg wesbot wesbot-scores
*whisper from bot* Won: 1 Lost: 4 Tied: 2 Statistics(an average): 313/371 Rank: 11
<anyar>wesbot-hi-scores
<wesbot>Top ranked players are:
1. blah
2. blah
3. blah
4. blah
5. blah
This is definately not going to be one of the uses of the bot.
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Post by Boucman »

if you want to make it really usefull, make it a patch to the server, this way you are sure there's only one per game, and it would have full access to all game stats....

yes, a wesbot like functionality would be nice, a private messaging functionality ("wesbot tell <user> <message>" to have it repeat <msg> when <user> join) this might be abused, but is worth trying

I think this idea would be great,

it's an idea that would enable us to implement all sort of interesting stuff, most of which we don't think of yet...
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Post by fmunoz »

Make the bot report to the IRC channel... keep a bot in wesoth and another in the channel soyou can ask it/they about the user in the other side...
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Boucman wrote:if you want to make it really usefull, make it a patch to the server, this way you are sure there's only one per game, and it would have full access to all game stats....
I'm not sure giving that much control to bit is good idea(especially from security point of view), also i'd like to keep them separate because it lets you make some variations of bot and run all of them at same time or for example only one.
Boucman wrote:yes, a wesbot like functionality would be nice, a private messaging functionality ("wesbot tell <user> <message>" to have it repeat <msg> when <user> join) this might be abused, but is worth trying
It's good idea IMO, but could somebody post here examples of things that can be implemented? (i'm not sure what wesbot actually can do)
fmunoz wrote:Make the bot report to the IRC channel... keep a bot in wesoth and another in the channel soyou can ask it/they about the user in the other side...
It's not bad idea, problem is that it would need implementing IRC also.
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IRC is easy (at least in perl) ... if you digg around I'm sure you could find tons of functions already done.
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Post by Rhuvaen »

Wbot on the mp server wrote:Gah... capsman!
So, he's becoming a sort of manner/style police? :D
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Rhuvaen wrote:So, he's becoming a sort of manner/style police? :D
It can be used as console client also. :P
fmunoz wrote:IRC is easy (at least in perl) ... if you digg around I'm sure you could find tons of functions already done.
I know IRC is quite simple protocol, but it would need not so few work to make it and i could not find good IRC libs, so maybe later. :?
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