Nice to see Rawbots isnt dead, but despite hoping for the best i have some doubts.
ive been quiet for a long time, checking this forum every now and them, some might renember me though as i uploaded bots, tutorials and acl fights on youtube back in the good old days when xfm came out. (
) then i stopped as i had less time and the game seemed dead until i stumbled across this place.
That ingame blueprint shop doesnt make any sense to me, of course players that arent into programming might wanna spend money on some cool advanced bots, but there are a lot of problems involved with this. How could one protect his Ideas - what keeps others from copyiing your bot/code with little difference ? What about using a bought bot as base for your own bot and then selling this one ? Who will investigate such cases, what about legal stuff ? Reminds me of the trouble with payed Skyrim mods, they tried two times and it ended up in a mess. Only way to solve this i can think off is to make bought bots uneditable - u can spawn and steer em but u cant see the code or add/remove parts.
How will one know if the bots realy work ? Can u test em before u buy ( again what keeps u from copying then ), can u get a refound - who decides if the bot works as it should or not ? A reputation system alone cant solve this, demo videos can easily be faked.
If a bought bot uses bought cosmetic parts, will u have to buy them too or will the be replaced by some free parts ?
But most of all buying a blueprint is useless ( atleast in arena fights like acl ) - there soon will be a few bots that will dominate the fights, and if u take luck and arena conditions aside its very likely that bot "1" will always win against bot "2" which though might win against bot "3" which defeats bot "1" - so why would one buy one of this bots when u already know how the fights end up ? So u buy a set of bots and the fight like paper stone scissors ? Or worse, theres one super bot that domiantes all others, best u could do is to buy the same bot an wish for luck. So one will need to tweak and adjust his bot to win against the same model, which leads back to the "copyright" questions.
In an ACL like scenario i realy doubt such a shop would succed - however when the game gets to a point where u have a team of bots things change as one might buy bots for specific tasks so he can concentrate building for other tasks or even just have his individual combination of bought bots. But that would be a whole differnt game from what we have now.
Also it surprises me to see mr rozgo back in the team, i might have missed parts of the story but the last things i red was his partner having some serve accusations and even sueing him , any news about this ?