Lets conquer the world in the name of Apolyton! - Page 4

Provost Harrison · January 4, 2003, 19:52

We seem to be slipping, but I just can't be arsed doing another clickathon like earlier this evening...

Jon Shafer · January 4, 2003, 21:10

Noooooooooo!!!!

Down from 3 to 13th!

Provost Harrison · January 4, 2003, 21:15

I just can't be arsed any more though

Mercator · January 4, 2003, 21:37

I will now actively boycott it!

Anything I do now will be undone by tomorrow morning anyway. hmpf

Skanky Burns · January 4, 2003, 22:17

We just need someone to bump this in about a months time, and the world will be ours!

Gangerolf · January 4, 2003, 22:17

haha I conquered iceland

Alex · January 5, 2003, 02:16

ok, the first click was funny, the second was tedious and I didn't click a third time.

Inverse Icarus · January 5, 2003, 02:28

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 · January 5, 2003, 02:29

I say we do it. Anyone good a programing?

Ted Striker · January 5, 2003, 02:35

UberKruX makes it sound so simple.

Jon Shafer · January 5, 2003, 02:45

30 seconds? 20 seconds?

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

Jack_www · January 5, 2003, 03:09

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!

Inverse Icarus · January 5, 2003, 03:27

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Originally posted by Ted Striker

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

Skanky Burns · January 5, 2003, 04:17

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.

Oerdin · January 5, 2003, 04:19

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

Skanky Burns · January 5, 2003, 04:25

Easy as. The problem is thinking of it first.

Provost Harrison · January 5, 2003, 08:12

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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 · January 5, 2003, 08:22

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 · January 5, 2003, 08:27

As if I would do something like that

Oerdin · January 5, 2003, 09:47

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 · January 5, 2003, 10:09

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...

alva · January 5, 2003, 10:28

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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 · January 5, 2003, 10:31

I never had to do anything with those, quite frankly, abstract peeks and pokes on a BBC

Jack_www · January 5, 2003, 13:14

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!

Jack_www · January 5, 2003, 21:05

is anyone still doing this??

Oerdin · January 5, 2003, 21:08

I doubt it.

alva · January 6, 2003, 01:37

When does it end?

DinoDoc · January 6, 2003, 01:38

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Originally posted by alva
When does it end?

Only the dead have seen the end of war.