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asterixx:
I've been interested in these sort of programs for sometime now and I came across your forums and decided to give it a try. It's a wonderful tool clearly capable of really cool things (and I've only spent a day or so figuring out the codes  )

I see there are some people who use this forums more than others; at any rate, greetings all!

I have many questions, many of which I have been able to answer for myself, but 'thank you' to the developer(s) who made the interface very user-friendly. I've browsed these forums up and down and there is no doubt a lot of useful knowledge so I decided to make an introductory post. Oh, and that 1000 hr zerobot thing is amazing!  

Nice meeting you all!

-Asterixx

Numsgil:
Hi!  Feel free to ask questions.  It gives us something to post about

asterixx:

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Are you a forum troll   ?

 

Actually I do have 2 questions:

1) I obviously got the internet mode working, because I could see EricL's 1200 pop. hunters, but I'm confused about how the system works and more specifically, its purpose: Why should I try IM?

AND

2) Are there advanced commands that exceed the sysvars list located in the installed files? Because one of my bots acquired a ".how" command or something and I have NO idea what it does...

EricL:
Hi.  Welcome.

1) Interent mode uses the FTP protocol to connect everyone's sims together through a common FTP server.  When you swithc a sim into IM, a "teleporter" is created that floats around and teleports bots between sims more or less randomly.  The idea is to create a giant mega-sim with all sorts of different species and environments utilizing the CPU cycles from many different machines.  You can hand author bots and try to take over other sims (I.e. grow your bot's population) or just watch selection work and the various bots evolve over time.

2) The sysvars file is no longer used.  The list of sysvars is internal to the code now.  With one or two exceptions, they should all be documented on the wiki.  .how is not a sysvar.  If you have questions about a specific sysvar or find something you don't think should be there, sing out!

Numsgil:

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--- Quote from: Numsgil ---Hi!  Feel free to ask questions.  It gives us something to post about
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Are you a forum troll   ?

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Heh, probably

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