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Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
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We seem to be slipping, but I just can't be arsed doing another clickathon like earlier this evening...

Trip is offline Trip
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Hunt Valley
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Noooooooooo!!!!

Down from 3 to 13th!

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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Feb 2000
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I just can't be arsed any more though

Mercator is offline Mercator
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I will now actively boycott it! Anything I do now will be undone by tomorrow morning anyway. hmpf

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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We just need someone to bump this in about a months time, and the world will be ours!

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huuhh
May 2001
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haha I conquered iceland

Alex is offline Alex
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Mar 1999
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ok, the first click was funny, the second was tedious and I didn't click a third time.

Inverse Icarus is offline Inverse Icarus
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flying too low to the ground
May 2001
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just make a bot that goes slow enough to emulate human clicking. like once every 30 seconds.

distribute he bot to various apolytoners.

then make a central server with the locations of every land tile in it, have the client request a tile and go to the referrer page through apolyton's "goto" script.

have the central server keep track of where we are in the list, and cycle through when every tile has been claimed.

repeat indefinately.

if you have 30 people running the bot, you'd take over 60 tiles in a minute, 3,600 in an hour.

the map is 360x146, with ocean in between. the world is 3/4 ocean, so lets assume there are 13,140 land tiles. ~4 hours we conquer the world.

well, we'd lose tiles to other people, but we'd continually run it.

also, we may eb able to drop the timer to 15 or 20 seconds, doubling the output and halving the time.

yada yada yada i'm a good cheater.

Oerdin is offline Oerdin
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Sep 2001
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I say we do it. Anyone good a programing?

Ted Striker is offline Ted Striker
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UberKruX makes it sound so simple.

Trip is offline Trip
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Hunt Valley
Apr 2002
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30 seconds? 20 seconds?

I was clicking every couple seconds for about 5 minutes and it didn't care.

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Jul 2001
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come on guys do your part. I have been trying to get parts of Russia and Europe but the guys at evercrest are killing us!

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May 2001
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UberKruX makes it sound so simple.


the hardest part would be avoiding the ocean tiles.

you'd probably be best off making a bot to run through every tile once, and recording which ones werent ocean.

then you'd have a map to start from

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Aug 2001
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Making bots, you would need to randomise the times somewhat. If they continuously get hits every _ seconds, they can probably flag that as a bot. With slightly different times, however, it will just appear to them as someone with no life.

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Sep 2001
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Randomizing the hits should be fairly easy just give it a range and a random number generator.

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Easy as. The problem is thinking of it first.

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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Originally posted by UberKruX


the hardest part would be avoiding the ocean tiles.

you'd probably be best off making a bot to run through every tile once, and recording which ones werent ocean.

then you'd have a map to start from


Not necessary, you could just save a copy of the map where the ocean is already coloured white and the land is coloured, well, any other colour. Just do a bit of messing so you have a clear map of the land masses, so when the bot picks a random square, it first double checks it against it's own map, or better still, you can get it to retrieve the map in it's current state and get it to pick only 'non apolyton, non ocean' squares...you may want to put in a few tweaks so that it is more effective at finding the gaps if it has secured almost complete dominance Now I am not a programmer, but I have an idea how to go about doing it

alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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quote:
Now I am not a programmer, but I have an idea how to go about doing it




translation:
"I'm way to lazy to be bothered, but if some sm*ck likes to waste his time, great.
I'll share in the honours later, since I can claim it was my idea to begin with "

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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As if I would do something like that

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I'm sure if we looked around someone has already created a bot that would do the job for us. It's just a matter of finding it.

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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If my programming skills were a little more up to date I would have a crack at it. Alas BBC BASIC and 6502 Assembler doesn't cut it on a modern PC...

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Republic of Flanders
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quote:
BBC BASIC


Talk about a blast from the past

I know some atari & commodore basic, hmm, make that 'knew'
peeks and pokes
<-L"*",8,8,1 (to get the tape going??)

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
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Feb 2000
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I never had to do anything with those, quite frankly, abstract peeks and pokes on a BBC

Jack_www is offline Jack_www
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we need more people involved doing this. I spent a good part of my time last night to get Apolyton to 4 place. When I look again all did was gone. Someone else besides me has to clikc on that map!

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is anyone still doing this??

Oerdin is offline Oerdin
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Sep 2001
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I doubt it.

alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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When does it end?

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When does it end?
Only the dead have seen the end of war.

 
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