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Fire Adept · Guest Offline

First off, what coding language(s) do you use for coding bots?

Second, at about what level for these languages is bot-writing?

And third, how would I program the bot to log in to the server?

I'd like to try my hand at a simple bot, but I don't know what language to use nor how to cause it to interact with the server..

-Fire

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

You should probably specify what exactly you mean. Do you want to add functionality to an existing bot system? Or do you want to write your own from scratch? The first could be done in a day with reasonable knowledge of C/C++, and without having to understand the protocol. The second requires considerable understanding of the protocol and networking.

Bots (or bot modules) have been written for SS in C/C++, BASIC, Java, Delphi, and probably more.

See this thread for a rather lengthy, albeit painful and sometimes off-topic, discussion of bots from scratch: http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=2179
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Fire Adept · Guest Offline

Well, I was thinking of coding my own bot if it wasn't too hard (I do dabble in C++ a bit), but it seems as though it would be easier to simply build off a bot. Do you know of any basic bots I could modify to my liking?

-Fire

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

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Fire Adept · Guest Offline

Thanks a lot for your help

I guess I'll get to work then

-Fire

50% Packetloss · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

There is a lot to learn, no only will you need to master a programming language but you will need to understand tcp/ip and other advanced programming concepts. I think after you accomplish these tasks you will find your skills much more useful in projects that haven't already been done. Bot plugins are in high demand currently but SS might go in the direction of ASSS. Books are the best way to learn the C++ language, you wont be able to find too many classes in the US anymore that offer the course because the school board has shifted to teaching Java.
My first project was a program to forge receipts at a local arcade. At the arcade there was a machine that would take in tickets and print out a receipt for them with a bar code on it. I figured out the bar codes they were using and how the bar code's info was put together; then wrote a POS windows program to forge them. It looked identical and scanned into their comps perfectly, unfortunately I wasn't crooked enough to get the 30 inch TV with the fake receipt.