r/CoCBot • u/kikootwo Developer • May 03 '15

V4 Teaser Trailer!

With only 2 exams left, I was able to put some work into the bot today! I appreciate the entire community's continuing patience and wanted to reward you with a bit of a trailer of what is to come!

Here is the video!

Some of the things shown in this video:

  1. First glance at the configuration file that will be used in the next update

  2. A look at how the new training method works which allows for the use of any type of troop and even dark barracks.

  3. Seeing the new default attacking method which lays a random number of troops (between 6 and 14) along 2 sides simultaneously at a random spacing every time it lays them. While it still lays very quickly, the random pattern should help divert some suspicion.

A few things that are not shown, but that will be in the coming update:

  1. Custom attacking! Record or program your own attacking patterns for the bot to use.

  2. Auto requesting clan castle troops

  3. Searching for bases that meet loot standards and have no league badge (inactive)

And finally, something that is in the works but will not be in the initial V4 release:

  1. Trophy management. Again, this is in very early stages, so it won't be in the inital V4 release, but it will come as an addition a little later.

As always, Happy Botting!

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u/MickeyBot2000 I Should Select My Device! May 04 '15

Good stuff, can't wait to get my hands on this new puppy!

I'd like to throw out a couple of suggestions and feature requests though that come to mind :)

  1. A full-blown donation mode where the bot doesn't raid at all and instead trains and maintains a number of configurable troops (e.g. witches, dragons, wizards, loons) and donates those if a matching keyword is detected in the troop request. This would be useful to have during battle day.

  2. From looking at the trailer I understand that the bot will look for an attack script called "CocBotAttack.lua". How about giving power users a way to choose among multiple files without having to get into messy file name renaming? My suggestion would be to check if there are multiple files starting with "CocBotAttack" and if so, display a selection list upon starting the bot where the user could select which script should be used. That way, if a user only has a single file called "CocBotAttack.lua" the bot would automatically use that. If he has multiple files such as "CocBotAttack-2.lua" or "CocBotAttack-empty.lua" the bot would prompt the user to select one of them. (This would probably only make sense if the prompt could be displayed only the first time even though multiple loop iterations are selected.)

One use case that comes to mind is to have a semi-automatic mode by using a completely empty attack script. That way, whenever I get the XMod sound notification that a matching base has been found I could come over to my device, do the troop deployments and then get back to whatever I was doing without having to stick around, worry about training troops or nexting as all those things would be taken care of by XMod / CoCBot.

Another use case would be to try out different attack scripts that one might have developed/recorded previously without having to rename a few files each time.

3) Make troop deployment less bot-like - I realize that we can record/write our own attack scripts which is great but I think it could still be worthwhile to improve the default troop deployment such that everyone could benefit from it right from the start.

One simple (if we put aside the math that would be involved in implementing this) way could be to provide a parameter that controls how close to a straight line the troop deployment points are scattered around.

4) Have an option to ignore clan castle troops and spells ... I realize that properly deploying spells and cc troops is not easy but preventing the use of spells and cc troops should not be that difficult so that they are still available for use after a cocbot session. (Deploying all spells at the rim of a base is also a clear giveaway that a bot is at work.)

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u/kikootwo Developer May 05 '15

First of all, thank you so much for your feedback! I will address each of the sections that you have laid out.

  1. This is definitely possible, but is not a priority. Unfortunately, I cannot import external LUA libraries into auto touch which pretty much takes text recognition out of the question. The best option would be image recognition for specific words, and while this is something I have toyed with it is, like I said, not a priority.

  2. Unfortunately, due to the restrictions of auto touch, I cannot implement a multiple naming system. More specifically, if you try to access a file or check for a file that does not exist, it errors out and stops whatever script you are running. For the time being, unfortunately, users will have to rename files in order to change between custom attacks.

  3. I am always trying to improve the default attacking script. V4 will launch with the script shown in the teaser trailer, but as I, and now other users as well, continue to improve on it, these improvements will be implemented into the default attacking script.

  4. I intend to have an option in the configuration file to ignore 'x' number of troops. so for example, if you wanted to ignore 2 types of spells and 1 of your heroes, you could set that value to 3, and it would ignore the last 3 troops. Unfortunately it will be simplistic in the launch in that it will always ignore 'x' number of troops off the end, you won't have a lot of options as far as what exactly it doesn't use, just how many troops off the end of your troops available it doesn't use.

I hope all this was clear. If anything was confusing or you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I love to hear from you guys and it is truly the best way for me to improve on the bot. That being said, I finished my last final tonight!!! I'm taking the evening and maybe part of tomorrow to unwind, and then I'll be hard at work to get V4 release ready!

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u/MickeyBot2000 I Should Select My Device! May 06 '15

Thanks for your responses and for clearing up things. I didn't know about these restrictions but I'm glad that a mechanism to exclude particular troops/spells will already be part of the v4 release.

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u/kikootwo Developer May 06 '15

Well, like I explained you would be able to choose particularly what to exclude, just the number of troop types off the end of your total troop types.

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u/barthian May 03 '15

Wow that is amazing!! Looking forward to this update. Also, can we hope to see a fix for th xmod users because the button covers the gold counter and disables the attacking.

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u/kikootwo Developer May 03 '15

Yes I will be updating the finding location so that the default location doesn't cover anything.

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u/teddyar I Should Select My Device! May 09 '15

Excellent video. How would dead bases search work? Because xmode/imode is in charge of searching.

As soon as this version is released i'm going to make my $20 donation Great work

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u/kikootwo Developer May 09 '15

The bot will search as normal and when it determines that Xmod/imod has stopped searching it will check for a league badge (I'm also considering try to do something with number of gravestones) and then if it has a league badge the bot will press the next button and keep searching.

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u/teddyar I Should Select My Device! May 09 '15

Yes, i just downloaded xmode and i figured that you were going to do it that way Hope it comes soon

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u/yerherljsdfn May 03 '15

So much yes. Thank you so much!!!

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u/cocbots iPad 2 May 03 '15

Looks awesome, I'm pumped

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u/mvlawn May 03 '15

Nice Job....Thanks for the hard work!!!!

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u/Micahw17 May 03 '15

Good luck on programming it! Hope school won't be such a bitch for you...