Mining Bot - Recruiting

Well, first off, thank you for taking the time to help out with debugging and building my databases for the Crafting and Radar tools. Because of your earlier assistance, I wanted to offer you an opportunity to assist me further but be granted exclusive access to my latest creation - Mining Bot!

Essentially, I would give you access to my mining bot for free if your assistance is up to the required high standard needed.

I built and tested my bot in Nophica’s Wells. At this time I have gotten 8 levels just by afk’ing and praying that no NMs kill me while mining

Unfortunately, mining requires more than just a bot that can perform the act of mining (I’m pointing at all the fishing bots out there). The bot needs to know where all of the nodes in the zone are (there are approximately 40 nodes on average) and the bot needs to know how to get between these nodes (there are 780 (40 choose 2) possible routes between nodes! Double that if you count the fact that you can run both ways.

Given the right tools, and a proper introduction on how to use them, one can get away with running ~80 routes and the automatic tools will figure out the other 700 (or ways to get between nodes without explicit routes).

If I explained how to use my mining bot, would you be willing to completely take over building one or more zones worth data for it?

I don’t want to kid you, this is a large undertaking that requires patience, planning, and time. This will take 1-3 hours a night for about a week. It is a huge commitment. However, you could customize the bot to run with your favorite zone, and finish of your miner to 50 and start maxing out your reserves for lvl cap increase or making profit by selling with next to no effort afterwards. The perks: you simply have to mine like you always would with just a few extra hassles (Hitting buttons: add node, start recording route, stop recording route). The bot will start helping you out immediately by mining the node you are at, and running to the next one if it knows the route.

To be clear, the bot is finished and should run with no errors. I just want to expand known places it can run in (You would also be debugging the bot as you worked with it in case there are errors that occur that I haven’t encountered).

In the end you will have a fully functional bot for your favorite mining area, at no $ cost. However, I require you give all ini files to me once complete, so that I have the extra data to include in the bot.

There are three separate duties required from you if you chose to accept.

You must find and add to the database every node in the area of your choosing.
- This is accomplished by just standing perfectly on top of the node and hitting "Add node" button in bot.

You must make a list of the most favorable gathering item (and depth) at each node.
- Only one item required per node, this tells the bot what depth to mine at.
For example, I programmed the bot to choose gold > silver > iron at Nophica’s Wells. I ignored all Obsidian nodes and left them un-configured (no entry in the ini file) as I have no personal interest in collecting them. I would expect you to do the same at the zone of your choosing.

You must record optimum running routes between as many nodes as you can.
- This involves careful planning of how you are going to run routes.
As motioned above, you may accomplish this with just as little as 80 (I only ran ~100 for NW, If I knew in the beginning what I know now (I didn’t have any of my route creating tools) I may have been able to get by with as few as 60 well planned routes)
You need to make sure every route is traversable in both directions!
No jumping off one way cliffs, always approach the start and end from head on directions (I’ll explain later if you accept to help) so the bot will end in the correct place.
Plan your routes such that they may have intersections.
Plan your routes to avoid common NM hangouts.
I have written several algorithms that will do many things.
1) Look to see if the destination mining node to get to has any known or computable route from your starting location.
2) Creates new routes based off of intersections of old routes.
3) Always looks to see if new routes added make better combinations with older routes so after each iteration the paths become better and better.
3) Error checks your routes to make sure they actually start and end where you say they do! (This may not be a problem anymore since I added intelligent route naming where the bot chooses your route name for you)

If you want to accept I will explain in more detail while looking at the game map of the zone you chose.

Lastly, I expect you to be comfortable verbally communicating with me over msn or another service. I would want to walk you through the bot as well as walk you through how thinking proactively about route management would make the bot and the route making tools work best together. I will be binding the bot to your specific character to prevent a mass leak of the bot. You need to be comfortable sharing your server/character name with me for these purposes. I will not be maintaining a database or sharing this information so you don't have to worry about the information ever getting out.