It would take me months to do all of the coding.. and then having an URL to actually put the codes up.. not to mention the help I would need from other mIRC coders to actually get it to do everything.. And other helpers and older players.
Just to state it.. I never once thought about actually putting in a ratio from one unit to the other. I personally don't ever want to take that kind of time to make that so simple for any other player. Also, to answer the question.. the ratios are probably saved on a text document, rather than straight from the forums, and some bots probably have a calc function as well, but I'm not 100% certain on that since I have never seen the code for it.. I was just putting that out there because these codes take time, especially if you want the bot to do complex tasks, like willy.....'s logging the question. Just to give you an example of a code [that does something random.] is this:
on *:TEXT:!hi:#: {
msg $chan Why, hello $nick $+ ! }
-That will return 'Why, hello [to whomever said !hi]!' when someone types in !hi
You could also have it read from a document in the directory.. I'll post my code for the units:
on *:TEXT:!unit*:#: {
var %apple = $read(units.txt,w,$2- $+ *)
if $2- = %apple msg $chan %apple
else msg $chan Sorry, you have entered an invalid unit name, please try again }
-Willy, that's what I was thinking about.. the impatient new people who want their answers right then and there. [Like I mentioned in the first post I made.]
I said I'm going to better my bot regardless of if I have a public channel where people can go for some answers, because I want the information at easy access either way it goes.
Not everyone is nice to new players.. some are, some aren't.. I've seen more of people being mean to new players rather than helping them out than I have seen people be nice to new players with questions about the game, but I do give kudos to those who have helped new people in the past
I think Harley's onto something. I could see where that could be of help.. I really can.. have a bot for the helpers and by the helpers.. since the helpers are consisted of a wide range of knowledge, with me, I'm good at basic questions.. while someone like dachi and pin could answer more advanced questions. I don't have a problem with poking one of the other helpers to reply or to verify something for me, but it would be good use for the helpers themselves.. assuming all of the information put into it was almost completely accurate at the least.. The problem with that though - is that only one person can actually put the codes into the bot, since the bot is made with the mIRC client.
I already have the unit stats, tech trees [that need a little bit of work still], a basic harv calc [that's missing it's numbers {damn reset for codes.. making me re-do them all}], and before the codes reset themselves, I was working on basic information [we-worded from the manual into my own] about each route! It's a good bot for quick information that you need in IRC because it was asked there..
But I highly doubt that there will be a bot like that, unless someone actually took the time to write the hundreds of codes [or thousands of lines] to answer questions ranging from basic to advanced, short answers to longer answers to fully detailed answers.. it would probably take me a year and a half to do all of that coding, but someone who knows about the game and has more knowledge than myself on coding could probably do it in half that time.
I really do see the problem with a public room with a bot in there for 24 hours, I can.. and I'm leaning towards it was a bad spark in an idea now.
