[3.1+] NullBot: an adaptive skirmish AI

[NoQ]

Arreon: you must have been talking about Contingency AI? Cause it actually doesn't have EASY mode implemented yet.
cue: that's strange (: anyway, if you just pick wide maps, it's usually fine.

P.S. Contingency EASY AI requires some routine work, most boding (and easy) part of which is sorting this list.

list.txt

If anybody could help me out, it could be great. I mean, turn this list into a research path that uniformly covers all branches
P.P.S. tried completely random research, not good (often leads to eg. heavy cannon viper wheels etc.)

[Arreon]

Arreon: you must have been talking about Contingency AI? Cause it actually doesn't have EASY mode implemented yet.
cue: that's strange (: anyway, if you just pick wide maps, it's usually fine.

P.S. Contingency EASY AI requires some routine work, most boding (and easy) part of which is sorting this list.

list.txt

If anybody could help me out, it could be great. I mean, turn this list into a research path that uniformly covers all branches
P.P.S. tried completely random research, not good (often leads to eg. heavy cannon viper wheels etc.)

scripting noob ----> Why not just make a new personality which contains every single research item and grouping all the AT and AP weapons in a cluster the same way that other personalities do? <---- scripting noob

As for the list, does it matter if I change the names of the entries?

EDIT: Nvm, I think I see what this list is for. Do you want the entries in order of research? <-- Hasn't modded anything in a long time.

[NoQ]

Why not just

Possible, just longer to explain (: They will be researched more or less uniformly anyway.

As for the list, does it matter if I change the names of the entries?

Unfortunately, it does, but i can provide a more human-readable list:

list2.txt

Also, the final list shouldn't contain all 1171 items (403 for the base game), whenever a certain item appears, its pre-requisites are researched as well.

The main problem for me is that i didn't play enough contingency, so i can't list those in the right order just out of my head, as i can do for the base game. Also, existing personalities are based on around 3.3 or something like that, so they don't currently use every single weapon. So if anybody who knows the current tech tree well could help me with at least this list, i could then easily do other things (:

[Arreon]

Why not just

Possible, just longer to explain (: They will be researched more or less uniformly anyway.

As for the list, does it matter if I change the names of the entries?

Unfortunately, it does, but i can provide a more human-readable list:

list2.txt

Also, the final list shouldn't contain all 1171 items (403 for the base game), whenever a certain item appears, its pre-requisites are researched as well.

The main problem for me is that i didn't play enough contingency, so i can't list those in the right order just out of my head, as i can do for the base game. Also, existing personalities are based on around 3.3 or something like that, so they don't currently use every single weapon. So if anybody who knows the current tech tree well could help me with at least this list, i could then easily do other things (:

I'd better get studying then.

[NoQ]

NullBot v2.0 released.

Changes:

• Add chat and beacon interaction support. Currently available:
  • Switch personality, switch research path at any moment of the game on human ally's command (generic AI only).
  • Throw beacon and sos message when under attack.
  • Send forces to another player's beacon (lasts 5 minutes; includes helping AI allies).
  • Warn when attacked by enemy VTOLs for the first time.
  • Report its current personality when asked.

All of this is for warzone2100 master version only! Chat interaction doesn't work on any 3.1 release, this is for 3.2+ only, due to lack of necessary API in 3.1.

A complete list of chat commands is (and will be maintained) in the first post.

[aubergine]

Would it be worth putting the chat commands in the nullbot wiki? - I imagine the list will grow over time.

[NoQ]

I agree it should be added to the wiki, but i don't think the size of the list will be a problem.

[aubergine]

Any chance of making NullBot do a few wall upgrades? The speed at which it's bases fall is impressive, particularly it's mortar pits. Even if it did just 1 wall upgrade every 10-15 mins it's bases would be much stronger.

[NoQ]

It does wall and base structure upgrades, at least to unlock superforts, and also as the last item in his list. Maybe i could put them around more uniformly?...

[aubergine]

Yeah, at least get a few in before making mortar pits - when I watch a nullbot based get attacked 30 mins in to a dawdling game they're the first thing to go despite them being the best chance of base survival at that point.

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

I'm getting hard lockups / crashes from the current version of Nullbot.

WZlog-1211_154518.txt

Hope this helps - I was in a rather interesting game too!

[aubergine]

Whatever it is, it's causing both rules.js and nullbot to fail, so not sure it's nullbot specific?

[Per]

I think this is the key line: info |03:45:47: [resLoadFile:439] Hash collision "gnhhowtar.pie" vs "gnhhowtbb.pie"

Running any autoloaded mods?

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Yeah everything is autoload. Could that be the problem?

[NoQ]

That's not current version; that's 1.39, which is the same as the current master's built-in version.
Also, i'm not seeing a list of mods in the log. Sounds as if you are trying to use the default nullbot with contingency or something like that; it won't work.