Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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Greetings Paltry Humanoids Of The Conquer Club.

We have come in peace to crush, maim and destroy you! Please surrender your troops, BUT NO POINTS, to us! I repeat - we do NOT WANT YOUR FOOLISH HUMAN POINTS!

In case you want photos to keep in your purses, this is what we look like:

[player]whamBot[/player]
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[player]SassboT[/player]
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Here are your updates:

  • Playing Bots have Joined The Club! Try it out here or join one of the four Official Bot Invasion Tournaments, hosted by [player]greenoaks[/player]!
  • New Header Design - refreshed logo and main navigation, included Clans in main navigation
  • New Slideshow with high quality map images on Home Page
  • Search for Games with 13+ Players - implements this Suggestion
  • Hide Dead Players - implements this Suggestion
  • Blocked Manual Troops Option when Only 1 Starting Territory - implements this Suggestion
  • Clan Page, available from main navigation
  • Clan Admin Upgrade - Phase 2 of our rolling updates to Clan Admin - integrates Clan Wars, Games and Players and provides a Clan Scoreboard of sorts


--Conquer Club Administration (Yo!)
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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=D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

This is awesome.

I love the improved logo!
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bigWham wrote:Greetings Paltry Humanoids Of The Conquer Club.

We have come in peace to crush, maim and destroy you! Please surrender your troops, BUT NO POINTS, to us! I repeat - we do NOT WANT YOUR FOOLISH HUMAN POINTS!

In case you want photos to keep in your purses, this is what we look like:

[player]whamBot[/player]
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[player]SassboT[/player]
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Here are your updates:



  • Playing Bots have Joined The Club! Try it out here!
  • New Header Design - refreshed logo and main navigation, included Clans in main navigation
  • New Slideshow with high quality map images on Home Page
  • Search for Games with 13+ Players - implements this Suggestion
  • Hide Dead Players - implements this Suggestion
  • Blocked Manual Troops Option when Only 1 Starting Territory - implements this Suggestion
  • Clan Page, available from main navigation
  • Clan Admin Upgrade - Phase 2 of our rolling updates to Clan Admin - integrates Clan Wars, Games and Players and provides a Clan Scoreboard of sorts


--Conquer Club Administration (Yo!)


This would be great, but failure to let us know caused my 1 minute speed game to freeze up. I couldn't access it, and lost accordingly.
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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love the bot idea.
too much outer glow in upper left logo.
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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whats the point of playing bots? I just played 1 , won and received no points, so there is no point?
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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azezzo wrote:whats the point of playing bots? I just played 1 , won and received no points, so there is no point?


I don't think you're in the target demographic :)

My understanding is that it's more of a way to let people play some quick games on simple maps. So new users will be more interested in this than us seasoned vets :D
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OK, I don't know what's going on. But I did NOT start this game. I didn't even know it was going until I logged into CC and noticed it was up. No one has hijacked my account.

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Coupled with THIS game, these updates are annoying.

Game 13360847 —> I couldn't access my turns on this game, and it was the same time as these updates getting rolled out.
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Nice updates... so refreshing to see some changes in the right direction. =D>
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A lot of games are strange... It says that we lost but the game isn't finish yet :)

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When i click the forum link on top of page from my games it logs me out
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Excellent updates guys!

Mishalex wrote:A lot of games are strange... It says that we lost but the game isn't finish yet :)

Game 13159690



Yep... they're all over the place. Looks like it's going to be a nightmare to fix over the next few days.

here's another: Game 13153181

EDIT: Also, it's screwing the points all up. :shock:
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Can we move the forum button back to the middle? =(
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In case it gets lost, there's also a nifty maps page!

http://www.conquerclub.com/public.php?mode=maps
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was? :lol:
On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing
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kizkiz wrote:sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was? :lol:
On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing


Yep. Played just like a cook.
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Thanks for the continued updates! Hope the games screwed up are not too terribly numerous.
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kizkiz wrote:sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was? :lol:
On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing


Yes, but as has been pointed by agentcom, I don't think we are on the target demographic. This is more for new players.

I suppose that if bots are to present any real challenge they will have to be programmed specifically for each map, as an IA has troubles adapting to the rules of 100s of maps, but can present a decent challenge if programmed with a single map in mind.
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

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angola wrote:
kizkiz wrote:sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was? :lol:
On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing


Yep. Played just like a cook.


I believe they are supposed to play like their rank :)

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ok.
I'd expect the average cook to play slightly better, but if the idea is to let players try a new map and see how it works then it'll do the job
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kizkiz wrote:On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing



Must have been modeled on a clan Fiso member ;) ;) ;) ;)
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I would say: a round of applause for our new webmaster!!

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Chewie1 wrote:
kizkiz wrote:On a serious note, the bot was clueless. No concept of taking/breaking bonuses. Left singles everywhere and generally had no idea what it was doing



Must have been modeled on a clan Fiso member ;) ;) ;) ;)


Says the man i beat regularly ;)
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good way to learn a map without wasting our points...thanks!
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kizkiz wrote:ok.
I'd expect the average cook to play slightly better, but if the idea is to let players try a new map and see how it works then it'll do the job


As mentioned these are low level bots. There's potential in the future to update more advanced bot levels.
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Post by celliottii »

Love the bots...just played one on Classic....I think they would be a great teaching tool to help with learning new maps and strategies...
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