inter bot communications

[Kenneth916]

Wonder if this would this lead to a price war or price fixing...

 

I'm not sure that an automated procedure of either would be good for the economy...

 

Well, we may find out someday.

[Wicca]

Perhaps Im missing something here, but cant this be easilly done done via pm's?

 

bots are in essence just players so whats to stop something like

[babytradebot] > /daddybot #queriewhitelist badplayer

[dadybot] > /babytradebot #respnsewhitelist badplayer 1

 

Or if you want to be bandwidth efficient, and even mimic the way the server sends

[babytrradebot] > /daddytradebot #25 9 badpalyer

(25 being the used in this example as querie whitelist, 9 for data length, followed by data)

[dadybot] > /babytradebot #25 9 badplayer 1

(as above, but 25 now denotes return data of whitelist)

 

This is somethink Ive thought about before, and have actually created a bot guild (unused at the moment) so #gm can be used for communications.

 

Any approved bots are welcome to join this and we can work on a #gm protocal.

(the guild being AI (Artificial Ignorance) )

 

As a final thought perhaps a bot channel would be the easiest methode, ie a channel that ONLY bots can join, thus avoiding the requirement of them being in the same guild.

 

Im not saying any of the above thoughts are the perfect solution, however I see them as easy implementations of something that im not convinced is serverworthy.

(Not convinced it isnt server worthy either, but anyway  thats my tuppenceworth...  See what you think ;-) )

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This has always been my assumption! Yes... all via text PM's. That is all, really. I think this is a great idea. I'm always playing with bots on EL and it would be a blast to have my experiments join a bot guild or channel and just even do general handshaking. This is just a fun idea. If someone selects a channel and a "protocol", then it would be a lot of fun. I've never thought it would be a server packet thing. That certainly would be overkill I love the idea of a standard protocol and a standard channel. If the channel was public, it would be easy to implement some sort of handshaking so the bots know who is a fellow bot and who is a human trying to fool the bots.