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

Postby bigWham on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:31 pm

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:

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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 greenoaks!
  • 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!

Postby MoB Deadly on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:41 pm

=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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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby VicFontaine on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:42 pm

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:

whamBot
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SassboT
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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!)


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

Postby RjBeals on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:45 pm

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!

Postby azezzo on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:59 pm

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!

Postby agentcom on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:05 pm

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

Postby VicFontaine on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:07 pm

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 ā€”> 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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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby TheCrown on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:23 pm

Nice updates... so refreshing to see some changes in the right direction. =D>
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby Mishalex on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:27 pm

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

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

Postby kizkiz on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:33 pm

When i click the forum link on top of page from my games it logs me out
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby EBConquer on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:33 pm

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

Postby Army of GOD on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:34 pm

Can we move the forum button back to the middle? =(
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby Leehar on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:37 pm

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!

Postby kizkiz on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:41 pm

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

Postby angola on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:42 pm

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

Postby Robespierre__ on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:00 pm

Thanks for the continued updates! Hope the games screwed up are not too terribly numerous.
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby OliverFA on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:00 pm

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!

Postby Gilligan on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:04 pm

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

Postby kizkiz on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:16 pm

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

Postby Chewie1 on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:17 pm

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

Postby sniffie on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:17 pm

I would say: a round of applause for our new webmaster!!

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

Postby kizkiz on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:20 pm

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 ;) ;) ;) ;)


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

Postby Mad777 on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:20 pm

good way to learn a map without wasting our points...thanks!
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Re: Update 09/19/13 - Behold The Bot Invasion!

Postby IcePack on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:20 pm

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

Postby celliottii on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:39 pm

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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