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

by **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:

whamBot

SassboT

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!)

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

This is awesome.

I love the improved logo!

by **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

SassboT

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!)

This would be great, but failure to let us know caused my 1 minute speed game to freeze up. I couldn't access it, and lost accordingly.

by **RjBeals** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 1:45 pm

love the bot idea.
too much outer glow in upper left logo.

by **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?

by **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

by **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.

Game 13360871

Coupled with THIS game, these updates are annoying.

Game 13360847 —> I couldn't access my turns on this game, and it was the same time as these updates getting rolled out.

by **TheCrown** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:23 pm

Nice updates... so refreshing to see some changes in the right direction. =D>

by **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

Game 13159690

by **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

by **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:

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

Can we move the forum button back to the middle? =(

by **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

by **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

by **angola** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:42 pm

kizkiz wrote:sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was?
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.

by **Robespierre__** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:00 pm

Thanks for the continued updates! Hope the games screwed up are not too terribly numerous.

by **OliverFA** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:00 pm

kizkiz wrote:sassbot has played 9 and won 1.
I wonder who that sap was?
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.

by **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?
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

800 points, and 900 points.

by **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

by **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

by **sniffie** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:17 pm

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

sniff

by **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

Says the man i beat regularly

Ok, so my rank is a few points higher than it should be, so i guess one of my many games has bugged and awarded me a win. :lol:

Clan fiso can also boast the lowest ranked member of any clan =D>

by **Mad777** on Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:20 pm

good way to learn a map without wasting our points...thanks!

by **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.