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Programmable AI

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PhinnFort:
But the script would be run by the program, and you can therefore control what it will be able to do. Of course you wouldn't have it to aim for you, but it could rather control the parts of the ship that you can't control yourself. Like turrets, instead of letting them aim and shoot automagically, you could rather let people script it themselves.

-PhinnFort

Neo:
Another big thing with the scripting is the Real Time part of this game. Given enough skill a person could code themselfs to do certain tasks over and over again while they are away. Sure that's all great for them to do, but suppose one person makes 20 accounts gives them all the same script and lets them harvest resorces all day in a secure area, then he logs on once a day to sell it. He and other players would be able to pull in unholy amounts of cash, thus making the game less fun.  The people in cstrike that just have to click a mouse to get a headshot everytime don't have any fun, they grow board of the game. It's better if you have to work (and I mean push a mouse!) to get stuff done. This is just the easyest way to "cheat". There are better ways to make the game less fun for people, this is just one of the simple ones.

~Reynard

PhinnFort:
Sorry if I simply don't take the point, but I don't think you got the point.
How can you make a turret harvest? And you could also make the bots stop when the player goes AFK.
Also, you will have cheating, if any of you don't think so, you're not being reasonable. But I don't think people will use the bot-engine for it.
(Also, aimbots, wallhacks and the like in CS(counter-strike, that is) are usually implemented by "hacking" the opengl interface, and not in macros)

-PhinnFort

Caenus:
The biggest thing to remember is that this game will not be solely a spaceflight sim or the like.  It will incorporate several different aspects of several different styles of games.  Could you cheat with automated turrets?  No.  Could you cheat with scripting?  yes.

PhinnFort:
But the scripts would only be allowed to do what the developers want them to do. The developers could make them execute slow, don't allow them to move right, only left, or whatever. Again, scripting isn't used for cheating in many games (none that I can think of right now...)

-PhinnFort

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