Standard chat protocol for AIs?

[Per]

I've been thinking what would be a good way to send a message with a beacon location. The closest to anything useful I've come up with is that if you are typing something, then press alt+g to place beacon, then the beacon grabs whatever is in your text buffer and sends that, as it were an implicit enter key. But this could send something you did not intend to, I suppose. Opinions?

[NoQ]

I think such feature is not necessary; separately saying and placing a beacon is quite enough.

Another way of implementing it is make alt+g put a delayed beacon that will appear only after you pressed enter when typing message.

[aubergine]

An AI could also choose to scout the beacon even if no message is sent, so not sure there would be any benefit to having something that links a chat command to a beacon..

[NoQ]

AIs certainly shouldn't do that. Cause the most common use of beacons is "hey look, you forgot to build a research module here".

[aubergine]

...not in skirmish games.

[themac]

Since v2.0, on git master, it should (?)

What is a git master? I did try it again some minutes ago, but once again my NullBot ally did not respond in any way to Nexus help calls. No help at all. O.o

[aubergine]

If you're using "autogame on" then you're using an older version of the game. Autogame was removed from development version of the game a few weeks ago IIRC.

The chat commands for JS API based AIs, like NullBot, only work in Warzone 3.2 and above, which is not yet released. You can compile Warzone 3.2 from the master source code branch on github: https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100

There are some guides on compiling in the wiki: http://developer.wz2100.net/wiki/CompileGuide

[themac]

I am not too familar with compiling software on the Macintosh.

[NoQ]

I wonder why we don't have mac builds for master snapshots at http://buildbot.wz2100.net/files/ while they are here for 3.1.

[aubergine]

There isn't a spare mac to do the nightlies. I was hoping to buy one and donate it to the project but then life threw some curveballs my way and well, well, not going to be able to afford that for a while

<-- Also a Mac user, currently learning how to use Terminal *it has no mouse!!*

[NoQ]

But they do make 3.1 builds somehow? Manually?
http://buildbot.wz2100.net/files/3.1/mac/

[aubergine]

Yes, I believe the 3.1 builds are manually created by dak180

[themac]

The 3.1 .dmg made at 2012-12-20 can not be opened. The error message is: "unknown".

[Iluvalar]

AIs certainly shouldn't do that. Cause the most common use of beacons is "hey look, you forgot to build a research module here".

Also :

"hey build that derrick !"
"why the ** do you build a wall there ?"
"look I got the repair factory"
"look my new cool design" (specialy in NRS and it near infinite possibilities )
"Just dropping a beacon so we look busy"

Etc...

[dak180]

I am not too familar with compiling software on the Macintosh.

The CompileGuideMac should give you all the info you need, but if you have any questions please let me know; especially since we do not have a machine to do nightly mac builds I have tried to make building Warzone on the mac easy enough that anyone can do without too much effort.