SRL Archive - Discussions and Debates

As some of you may know, there is an RTS (Real-Time-Strategy) game called Age of Empires in which you can create your own AIs (computers to play against).

The scripting language for the AIs is really simple and can be picked up in a couple of hours. The rule-based programming is pretty high-level (and sometimes restrictive) but the end-result is a completely different opponent.

It is more common for people on sites such as aok.heavengames.com to pit their AIs against each other instead of humans. This provides for a programmer vs. programmer competitive arena using an already popular Microsoft game.

This alone seemed like it would be pretty fun for all us human-imitation people at SRL, but I of course had to bring the cheating aspect to this friendly AI scripting world. I created a utility that will replace the game's default AI inside of Microsoft's archive in the game's data with yours, allowing you to use your AI in multiplayer situations.

Utility & Source: http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/showfile.php?fileid=10424

This can be quite a fun community and the competitive programming aspect seems to be a perfect fit for many SRLers. Hope to see your around!

Lol nice! :D
Hahaha I tried to do this myself, but totally failed :p

Seems that's about Age of Empires II and not the original one? :) Oh I really played that game (AoE 1) like a nolifer (until I discovered Runescape 6 years ago).

Sounds like you would get a lot of script kiddies in this kind of thing…

now make something that can sync (without displaying your name)/ and or cause age of empires to error for everyone in a multiplayer game :D

for age of empires 2 the conquerors

This looks bloody awesome… O.o

From: mormonman
Sounds like you would get a lot of script kiddies in this kind of thing…

Not really. There are some noobs but the scripting language is pretty easy and doesn't require you to know the language before scripting well. For RSBot, KBot, Quirlion, etc. you must know Java pretty well in order to make actually viable scripts. With AoC (Age of Empires II: Conquerors) scripting, the language is so simple that with only the game manual and an actual mind for how to go about things, you can start scripting right away. Most of the script kiddies go to the more complex things, like creating your own scenario, where you have to program every aspect of how everything works.