Announcing a bot-free nursery
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Too often, you see a novice zone colonised by open source bots, which expand rapidly and leave no room for genuine novice players. As an experiment I would like to try out a player-created solution to this problem.
Having recently declared two sectors bot-free, I would like to announce the opening of a player-created novice area, that is guaranteed free of NCPs and open source bots, open to anyone of GCL 3 or below as with the usual novice sectors.
The area of this player-created novice area is approximately the top half of sectors E25S35 and E35S35 on shard 2.
Compared to a traditional novice area:
Pros
- Guarantee of no open source bots (or that they will be wiped out soon after spawning in)
Cons
- No walls surrounding the zone
- No protection from nukes
Let's see how this works out.
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What happens once you reach GCL 3?
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You can stay there, as you would a normal novice zone. If someone spawns into it and they're already above GCL3, they may get attacked.
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How are you detecting NCPs? If this works out it would be nice if others were set up, but I'd hate for a bug in the NCP detection to wipe out someone needlessly.
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@deft-code NCPs are detected via LOAN. So far this hasn't failed, but there is some minimal risk that things could go wrong with LOAN.
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@deft-code @wtfrank you can also manually do what LoAN is doing and look at creep names, structure layouts, and controller signs to determine if it's a bot or not...
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happy to outsource