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Friday, August 27, 2010

How about some bots?

So, I've been playing Sacred Seasons and Sacred Seasons 2 recently on Kongregate.
And as someone who tinkers with programming, I can respect the amount of work that went into both games.  But that doesn't mean that they are without flaws.

A good RPG increases your characters level and abilities along with the storyline.  And then if you're not very good at RPGs and you don't know the exact mix of spells and potions and weapons you need to defeat a certain enemy, you can go back and replay earlier levels to increase your characters stats - aka grinding.

A good RPG allows you to grind to make things easier on you.  A poor RPG requires you to grind to get ahead in the game.  And thats the problem with Sacred Seasons - and it's a huge problem.

I've looked for some scripts and bots for Sacred Seasons and either my Google-fu is weak or they are hard to find.  What I did find was the work of rbrbran277.

He created a script and showed it's power in some Youtube videos.  But the link he provided for the script no longer works.  I did find a version of the script here.  But I couldn't get this version to work.  The author admitted that some tweaking would be necessary but every time I tried to fix one subroutine, the next one wouldn't work.

So using that script as inspiration, I decided to make my own scripts.  I'm starting with a Tsulas script and will work my way out from there.  I'll have something to share with everyone in the next few days.  I have a decent Tsulas script running now, but it stops working sometimes and I want something that will run for hours at a time.

If someone has a working copy of rbrbran277's script or any other working script they'd like to share, I'd love to see it.  Otherwise, it's my sloppy programming you will have to put up with.

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