[Curse] New Pacific Order Commands Release of Automated Raw and WC Distribution Technology

[Artifex]

Hail comrades! To bring everyone up to speed, I'm a **** scientist recruited by NPO during Operation Paperclip, or if you're from NPO, Operation Osoaviakhim. During my time at NPO, I was forced, under threat of being turned into a LGBT using NPO's patented Rainbow Ray, to develop and code various instruments of war. Yes, I can confirm Roqnet was a real thing, and we were one nod of the head away from cyber-guinea-pig-boots marching down every street instead of mindless-manwha-enthusiasts marching down every street. But I digress. Today isn't about Roqnet, but a project I titled Auctus. In NPO I made something that could calculate the entire game's production within a <1% inaccuracy margin, and this slowly turned into something that could calculate an alliance's production, tax bracket, and nation and eventually had the functionality of being able to send the exact amount of needed resources to meet production demands, but that didn't happen in NPO and more in my next alliance which was... Hm... Maybe this isn't a NPO gift. I mean, I'm probably not even qualified to speak on NPO's behalf... So... Uh...






 

In the name of the Dark Gods, Chaos, and the True Machine Spirits. I release Auctus onto the world!






Okay Cool, but What is Auctus Really?
Auctus is a python script that, given an alliance, tax bracket, and supply parameters from the user, can calculate the exact amount of resource usage for each involved nation and then automatically send raws to them for the asked for number of days worth of production. It can send a lump sum or top off nations, as in, a lump sum of say five days of resources or see how much resources a nation has on hand and then send it however much it needs to have five days worth of resources. It can also be set to send what I believe to be a fairly configurable warchest, it does a fairly basic but solid automated audit, and a few other miscellaneous features sprinkled in

Why Are You Doing This?
It is my belief that the entry into forming a well functioning 100/100 alliance is either scripting knowledge or a mass amount of man power, and I hope this lowers the barrier of entry, gives people more options, and therefore makes for a more enjoyable ecosystem of gameplay. I hope this gets some people interested in the area of (admittedly poopy) scripting and also saves people the time if they've been doing raw and WC distribution manually. No one should have to suffer through that and the machines should take the wheel. Also, there's perhaps a faint hope that the mass proliferation of this poorly optimized script spurring a certain guy named Alex into adding vanilla functionality for previously mentioned distributions

Where Can I Get it and How Does it Work?
Instructions for both of these things is on the hastily constructed github page: https://github.com/LatorChaos/Auctus
Please note that I will offer minimal support right now and almost no support after a few weeks
Good luck and thank you

[Mega]

It's been a while since "NPO" came up on the forums that wasn't entirely negative, lol. (In my view, at least) Happy to see you! Thanks for the script, sure a lot of people will find it useful!

[Kyubnyan]

More of an Orbis Central thread. Also, you still have commented print functions used for testing in the uploaded code. I also think that a config.ini file would be best for storing API key, alliance IDs, and everything else you would want the end user to fill in.

Edited December 4, 2022 by Kyubnyan

[Artifex]

5 minutes ago, Mega said:

It's been a while since "NPO" came up on the forums that wasn't entirely negative, lol. (In my view, at least) Happy to see you! Thanks for the script, sure a lot of people will find it useful!

We all love NPO, some people just don't realize it

 

2 minutes ago, Kyubnyan said:

More of an Orbis Central thread. Also, you still have commented print functions used for testing in the uploaded code. I also think that a config.ini file would be best for storing API key, alliance IDs, and everything else you would want the end user to fill in.

You're totally right on the config stuff and comments, but I mostly wanted to get this out as soon as possible, and I wanted to make sure the obvious debugging places were flagged in some fashion and equip people with the methods of how I bang on it until it works again

Also, this is an alliance announcement from TEST, specifically the Dark Mechanicus branch

[AlexW]

Don’t tell tkr, they are still scared of em 😖

43 minutes ago, Malleator said:

We all love NPO, some people just don't realize it

 

Edited December 4, 2022 by AlexW

[zigbigadorlou]

So this is a "I don't want to play the game any more, so I let my gov's bot do it" program? 

 

[Artifex]

9 minutes ago, zigbigadorlou said:

So this is a "I don't want to play the game any more, so I let my gov's bot do it" program? 

Basically yes. It's a setup once and then run once a week sort of deal and then everyone only has to login for bonuses and war

[The Titan]

I was explicitly told, time and time again, that this was against the game rules by others and then finally Alex😅

Edited December 4, 2022 by The Titan

[Artifex]

Don't worry, it's all compartmentalized. The calculator and tool are two entirely separate things 

[Velyni Vas]

Automated bots are bad for the game. No thanks.

[Hes_A_Dictator]

This is bad for the game

[Alrea]

 elif oilPower > 0:
                if cityInfraCounter <= 100:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 100
                    resourceCountDict["oil"] -= 1.2
                    oilPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 100 and cityInfraCounter <= 200:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 200
                    resourceCountDict["oil"] -= 2.4
                    oilPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 200 and cityInfraCounter <= 300:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 300
                    resourceCountDict["oil"] -= 3.6
                    oilPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 300 and cityInfraCounter <= 400:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 400
                    resourceCountDict["oil"] -= 4.8
                    oilPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 400:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 500
                    resourceCountDict["oil"] -= 6.0
                    oilPower -= 1
            elif coalPower > 0:
                if cityInfraCounter <= 100:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 100
                    resourceCountDict["coal"] -= 1.2
                    coalPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 100 and cityInfraCounter <= 200:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 200
                    resourceCountDict["coal"] -= 2.4
                    coalPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 200 and cityInfraCounter <= 300:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 300
                    resourceCountDict["coal"] -= 3.6
                    coalPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 300 and cityInfraCounter <= 400:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 400
                    resourceCountDict["coal"] -= 4.8
                    coalPower -= 1
                elif cityInfraCounter > 400:
                    cityInfraCounter -= 500
                    resourceCountDict["coal"] -= 6.0
                    coalPower -= 1

I can't man. I just can't.

[Josh Freer]

17 hours ago, Malleator said:

Don't worry, it's all compartmentalized. The calculator and tool are two entirely separate things 

 

19 hours ago, Malleator said:

can calculate the exact amount of resource usage for each involved nation and then automatically send raws to them for the asked for number of days worth of production

But they aren't two seperate things. You are using the calculator to work out the "exact amount of resource usage for each involved nation and then automatically send raws to them" based on that calculator data.

The code for both the calculation and sending the resources is literally in the same file and called from the same main method. It's like the text book definition of what Alex has said was against the rules

[Zed]

Jokes on you, I run 150/150 taxes and have fully semi-automatic banking.

[Alex]

I've locked this thread for a few reasons.

1. Automated disbursement of alliance bank funds is against the rules. Scripts that make things more convenient, but still require manual action, are generally okay. But this certainly seems to cross the line into automated gameplay, which is a violation of our rules and would make the game unfair for anyone not using a script like this.

2. Per Village, your script is inefficiently scraping pages instead of using API v3, and poses a risk to the server by creating unnecessary increased load.

Here's my warning: do not use this script, or you will be in violation of the game rules.