Has anyone tried to make a script that tries to win with no outside user intervention?

There are scripts that are close, however running AFK you would die. Players adapt in endless ways and would eventually figure out your AI and SD you.

Some players run world trade/steal scripts AFK and that is a sure way to die. I have seen players run scripts that warp into dock to refurb their ships (stealing, fueling, or alien capping) thinking that their macros would keep them safe - they don't when it is done by an AFK script.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Speaking of which what is the simplest bot to use with say 25 maxed SBB ports and a mobile planet.  We are in a big bubble and I am doing by hand with _ck_planet_nego.cts and _ck_buydown.cts

Sorry I don't know of the simplest bot to use for this but a very simple (no error checking) outline of a script would be:

# get sectors - either by entry or reading a file
echo "*Enter sectors seperated by a space"
getConsoleInput $sectorList

# init variables to be used for the gosubs

# setup a loop to move through the sectors
:loopStart
   # get the sector to warp to
   setVar $i 1
   getword $sectorList $tradeSector $i
while ($tradeSector > 0)
      # warp to sector
      send "p" $tradeSector "*y"
      # gosub to set CK's variables
      gosub :loadBuydown
      load "_ck_buydown.cts"
     # setup a waitfor for the ending text
      waitfor "whatever the text is"
     # gosub to setup nego vars
      gosub :loadSell
     load "_ck_planet_nego.cts"
     # another waitfor
     waitfor "whatever this text is"
     add $i 1
     getword $sectorList $tradeSector $i    
end
# add commands to go "home"
halt


#------- gosubs

:loadBuydown
setVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_FUELROUNDS $CKBUYDOWNFUEL
setVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_ORGROUNDS $ckbuydownorg
setVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_EQUIPROUNDS $CKBUYDOWNEQUIP
setVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_MODE $ckbuydownmode
saveVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_FUELROUNDS
saveVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_ORGROUNDS
saveVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_EQUIPROUNDS
saveVar $_CK_BUYDOWN_MODE
return

:loadSell
setVar $_CK_PNEGO_FUELTOSELL $ckpnegofuel
setVar $_CK_PNEGO_ORGTOSELL $ckpnegoOrg
setVar $_CK_PNEGO_EQUIPTOSELL $ckpnegoEquip
saveVar $_CK_PNEGO_FUELTOSELL
saveVar $_CK_PNEGO_ORGTOSELL
saveVar $_CK_PNEGO_EQUIPTOSELL
return

          

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Prom,

I just wrote one without the loop. And I was coming here to ask how to loop the same 9 lines while pulling the sectors from a file. Thanks for the loop structure. I will get it into my script. 

Ideally I would like to look into the twx database, find all off the SBB ports that are fully upgraded, read the sectors into a file, read the file into the script.

Cernnunos

PS: With your help I came up with something good for me and it works like a charm.