I have recently taken up some studying in machine learning/AI development and as a project and I have been considering the idea of developing a Eve Bot.
Lets me clear here, I have scoped it in terms of third party tools and I have identified parameters and areas that i cannot develop into. But considering these limitations I am looking for some feedback on wether it would be of actual benefit at all, considering what the main stream bots already know where exactly do you believe it would fit?
Just to re-iterate I have indeed had a conversation with CCP about this subject and have been cleared in terms of usage.
Haha no no. It would have the ability to do that and more but I had a quick chat with CCP and the parameters were made clear, plus I would like to avoid a ban.
Well, we’d probably need to know more about the proposal for what exactly it would do (even in broad terms) to offer any kind of opinion on its usefulness…
Imagine a bot that can be just like a human in EVE who knows how to trade, interact with corpmates, has advanced fitting knowledge, and can create fleet doctrine in minutes vs hours!
Not that scripted site garbage we see now in NS. Anyone can script a bot to run a site, dock up, and do it all over again.
Super cool stuff to me.
To be realistic I think this might happen in 15+ years.
Well the original conception was taking the existing language models available and tuning it with a specific knowledge based focused around eve, mainly advanced fitting knowledge and suggestions for improvements to fits etc etc. But I have tested multiple language models and it appears they know alot already. There is possibilities for it to be able to interact with the game but that is an extremely thin tightrope.
The current fittings window does not show what you can expect from a ship with further levels of training. It only shows your DPS, EHP, range, etc with current skills. This actually makes it harder to decide whether to even go for a specific ship or fitting. Something that actually showed the full benefits of levelling up would be good ( and should in any case already be part of Eve ).
I am all for “higher learning” but you could just as easy practice on an offline game or make a bot for a game running on your own personal server. Why would you do this on an active MMO?
I sure hope you have no misunderstandings and got this all in writing from the top down. I find this very interesting. I wonder what they would say, if I asked them polity to test the integrity of their server’s firewall?
