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Hey guys, I am the writer of the football bot that Hockey Zone used to use. However, there was a major falling out between the two of us, and I have decided to take my bot elsewhere.

This bot is based off of Vampz original bot, and in fact, Vampz played the bot on a daily basis. It has tons of features, and I would really like to get a home for it somewhere.

Some of the features:

1) Fully functional football bot.
2) Field goals, onside kicks, punting, fake punting, it's all in their! Basically anything you can do in a football game is in the bot
3) Here is an example of stats that are stored during the game...

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Maverick_HZ vs Tjian
***************RAT TCK BLK SCK TO CAT C/A PYD INT TDC TDS PEN WRY RBY YPC FGS FGB
H-dogg 26 5 0 0 0 9 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 3 0/0 0
A_Pac 14 2 0 0 2 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Fett 10 2 9 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -30 0 0/0 0
Super Saiyan 4 1 0 0 0 1 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0/0 0
Tjian 37 4 1 0 3 1 0/0 0 0 0 1 0 41 0 41 0/0 0
grandhiman 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Segar 15 4 0 1 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Nickisis 17 2 13 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Hot Rodster 14 1 1 0 0 1 0/0 0 0 0 1 0 23 0 23 0/0 0
4U2NV 15 1 13 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
LBCsoldier 8 2 0 0 0 2 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 6 0/0 0
Maverick_HZ -8 1 7 0 0 0 3/6 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Scuzzy Sureshot49 4 0 1 1 4 0/0 0 0 0 3 0 35 12 11 0/0 0
The Agony Scene44 0 0 0 1 0 10/15 40 0 3 1 0 0 13 0 1/2 0
Nikon F5 6 0 0 0 1 1 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Deion_Sanders 17 3 7 2 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
eXpecto patronu4 2 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Sir Defense 6 3 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Promotion 2 0 2 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
Wizenbane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
activation -29 1 0 0 0 0 7/15 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0/0 0
Kane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0
volt 12 0 0 0 0 1 0/0 0 0 0 1 0 31 0 31 0/0 0
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Stat Maverick_H Tjian
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Time Of Possession 6:27 5:43
Total Yards 47 138
Total Catches 10 10
Average YPC 4 13
Total Attempts 21 15
Total Completions 10 10
Total Sacks 2 2
Total Turnovers 0 8
Total Ints Thrown 8 0
Total Penalties 0 0
Total First Downs 2 8
Third Down Conversions 1 1
Longest Field Goal 33 yards by The Agony Scene
Most Yards 47 yards by Scuzzy Sureshot
Most Catches 9 catches by H-dogg
Highest YPC (min 3 catches) 11 YPC by Scuzzy Sureshot
Most Tackles 5 tackles by H-dogg
Most Blocks 13 blocks by Nickisis
Most Sacks 2 sacks by Deion_Sanders
Most Interceptions 3 interceptions by Tjian
Most Penalties 0 penalties by
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The leading running back is Scuzzy Sureshot with a 30 RB rating
The leading receiver is Scuzzy Sureshot with a 35 WR rating
The leading quarterback is The Agony Scene with a 28 QB rating
The leading defender is Tjian with a 20 defensive rating
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The MVP is Scuzzy Sureshot with a 49 rating!
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As you can see, tons of stats are stored, along with MVP rankings in multiple categories.

4) Full mySQL support for stats. All stats can be written and stored in a mySQL database, along with commands to retrieve stats

5) Top ranking queries (such as Most sacks, most blocks, best defenders, etc...)

6) Full league support built in, all that needs to be set up is the database

7) The entire game is self contained and can be run by the bot. In fact, right before the bot left HZ 3 succesful league games had been run, all with minimal input from the staff.

Much much more, in fact, so much I can't even list it all here!

I spent the last 5 months on this bot, and it is almost in its final stages. I am more than willing to help anyone set up the database for their zone so the bot can run there. A database isn't required, and I'm more than happy to customize that bot.

Hope there are some takers, we've been the biggest draw in HZ for a while now, and in fact brought back a large chunk of population to HZ, so there is already a humungous following.

If you're interested, please contact me at colson1175@hotmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you guys...

Nickisis

Nickisis · Guest Offline

Sorry about the formatting on the stats, thats' just how it comes out when I cut and paste.

Note, this is much more than the original football bot, which had about 3000 lines of code. This one has almost 19-20000 lines of code, so don't confuse the two

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject:

19 lines to 20000 lines? That's quite a difference.

More availability is good. Although I won't use it, thanks.
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Bak · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

I'll admit the bot is fun, but you must consider the reasons HZ has abandoned the bot, afterall they had a league in preseason already started so it wasn't just them giving up on it.

This is from http://rshl.org/smf/index.php/topic,2840.0.html (hz football forum):

Nickisis is the bot creator, 4u2nv is the league coordinator, bluegoku is hz's sysop

Maverick · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:

Such a shame of such a good bot and all the work spent into it.
If there were no backdoors and there was no history behind all this you would be more then welcome to apply the bot and maybe even work in SSCU 17th Parallel.

I hope you understand the open source principle one day, Nickisis.
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Nickisis · Guest Offline

Never mind, we have fixed our differences. The bot will remain in HZ

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

Bah. It should still be open source.

I should have done my research. I would never trust a plugin made by you.

Oer The Dragon · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject:

with great bots you can make your own zone
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Cerium · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

But then his backdoors would be useless.
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Bak · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:

How can MERVBot plugins be distributed without being open source? Isn't MERVBot lisensed under the GPL?

50% Packetloss · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

SamHughes · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

GPL? I don't see any GPL.

50% Packetloss · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject:

Bak, he can release closed-souce plugins. But when you make plugins for a specific zone, you should do the honorable thing and give them the source code if they ask for it.

I would STRONGLY recommend that NO ONE use his bot. It is clear that nickisis is a lier and sounds fairly paranoid. I find it very hard to believe that he is a competent programmer if he needs 20k lines of code (ASSS probably has less) to write a bot that really isn't all that amazing, plus his behavior hints at his immaturity and lack of professionalism. I think its safe to assume that he is another copy/paste script-kiddie, only an idiot would place back doors in his code. I'm surprised that he didn't get net-banned for life, he placed a zone's security at risk.

Solo Ace · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

I think he's only bragging about the number of lines it needed, but whatever.

I fully agree with 50 cent.

Maverick · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:58 am Post subject:

well said, 50 ploss

Smong · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject:

Maybe you guys know something I don't, but from this thread it seems you are being harsh to this guy. HZ accepted him back for a start so he must be ok. It seems you are overrating backdoors, from nickisis description they just control the game. So are my ?elim start|stop|status command parameters backdoors too?

I just checked asss/src/core, it has 27k lines. Open source software still has backdoors, for example look at mozilla firefox with all those security vulnerabilities it has, if 8% of people are said to use it then it won't be long before headline exploits come out for it.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

Well, I can only speak for myself, but I said I wouldn't trust him because he sent the source without the backdoors and even source that probably wouldn't work. I don't mind purposeful backdoors, as long as I know they're there.

Cerium · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject:

Why does he always need access anyway? If he eventually leaves staff (either by his own will or by force), he doesnt need access anymore. At that point, chances are they will only be abused.

Secondly, no one should have the ability to say 'screw you guys, im taking my bot and going home'. Trying to give himself that leverage is another sign that he shouldnt have any power until he grows up.

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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

WTF...

Dr Brain · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:52 am Post subject:

Backdoors and security vulnerabilities aren't the same thing.

Backdoors should never be necessary. If the zone wanted him to have sysop, then they would have given it to him.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:

Can we please let this thread die?
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At least there are some smart people in this thread, Nickisis never put backdoors in the bot, at least in the way people thought he did. They were just (as someone above mentioned), ways for him to control the game, they didn't give him sysop powers or anything (just things like moving the first down lines, resetting the game).

All this stuff was left in from when he was originally developing the game, and a lot of times did not have access to do certain things on his local server. However, football is STILL going on in HZ thanks to Nickisis, he made football what it is today, he is the Lombardi of Subspace Football.

Still the greatest bot ever made in Subspace, and even years ago it had a lot more options than the crap they have up in HZ now. I remember one of the HZ mods screwed up their database and the enormous amounts of stats that Nick never tracked right after that. For a while they did, and it was more stats than most modern games track. Of course, they blamed that on him as well, even though he wasn't in control of the database...lol.

Long live Nickisis, creator of the greatest bot Subspace has ever seen, and creator of one of the longest running leagues in Subspace! Nickisis has and always will be the first name associated with football, without him thousands of players would never have enjoyed it's greatness. THANK YOU NICK!!!

Samapico · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject:

You realize this thread is over 4 years old?
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