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You twisted my arm.  Can I be in charge of hunting down dissidents?

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Haha so we have you to blame. Good to know. Brb coding a bot to kill Death all the time.

I think if we were going to make the bots relevant we would have to let them cheat a bit. Which might not be the worst idea ever, since the point would be to make an NPC that provides interesting gameplay to the real players, which is difficult to do when the best use of turns is not always something you can write into an algorithm easily.

We could think about making bots do very specific things, like a bot that always aggressively targets the guy in first place and gets an edge in breaking them with leader missions, or a bot that sends aid to the bottom few players periodically, etc. I think we could make some pretty interesting dynamics happen if we do away with the notion of trying to make a bot perform well subject to the same constraints as regular players and focus instead on making them do interesting things that enhance gameplay.

who's the lucky one?

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I've also apparently spent 3.3% of the last 15 years logged into this forum...

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This means basically for the last 15 years, you've spent at least 45 minutes per day on this forum. I think? Not sure if I did that math right.

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Yea that's about right. I like to believe that most of that time it was just logged in in the background of something else. That's what I'm telling myself.

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I've also apparently spent 3.3% of the last 15 years logged into this forum...

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15 years for me. Good lord.

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The whole land flood thing was never really an intended feature either, I'm not overly sad to see it go.

Yea. A full run of drives take IIRc about 60% land on average. 15-20 days of maxxing someone once a day is enough to kill them no matter how much land they start with. If you kept them maxxed around the clock you could probably do it in just under 2 weeks. The emp was killable, you guys had a window of more than 6 weeks where you all had the troops to break.

The point was to give you guys a reason to cooperate, not to hand the game to whoever broke him.

You actually had enough rats on the market to break him within just under 3 weeks but you kept suiciding leaders.

Considering the hilariously bad emp takedown attempt, I'm not sure you guys really want this one immortalized anyway ^_^

'tis a silly place

Pull penalties don't do anything, people just team up and buy each other out, recycling cash back and forth until they've got it all off. Even if you make it impossible to pull it's still a storehouse. I think the only thing that could rescue the public market is a big playerbase, and you can't really code those. We did try, though. The bots were functional but not very adaptable.

Charging upkeep is a good idea, as is spoilage

both worth trying before scrapping it