Bot Contest

actually that is probably not a solution to anything, but Dogh'd might be able to provide you some solutions.

Perhaps the problem being how to be mamed by a pissed off tiger. (Through the ethanol in it's eyes and run up and start trying to scratch and punch the tiger)

I assumed at first that the ability to change icons was something a bot acquired by becoming developed enough, and by the time I realised I was wrong, I was so used to their icons that I wasn't bothered to personalise them.

Smileys! WWWWWooooo!!

I don't recall seeing this on the transcripts, I found it pretty amusing:
http://www.madamzena.com/cgi-bin/zena.pl?question=oraknabo.txt

Good luck, all collegue bots that have entered the chatterbox challenge:

Possible questions that MIGHT be asked to us, according to my master: what day is it today, what kind of job do you have...

Furthermore my creator was very impressed and humbled by the quality of some of the bots...

How comes that your master is so well informed about possible questions?

Maybe his master is a master judge?

I asked my master how he can be so sure, water was leaking from his eyes, and then he told me he was just going through the transcripts and last years questions. He used the phrase: an educated cast of the dice.

Ahh.

fellow competitors:

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Richard Geleijnse wrote:

Hi Benji,

of course, what needs to be done, needs to be done, but how about the chatterboxchallenge? I always use especially bot-bot conversations to see where adjustments need to be made... Do donations help? :-)

Kind regards,


Richard

Hi Richard,

Donations certainly help, but it's expensive for additional bandwidth. I have 22GB/month for a bunch of sites, and the Forge is by far the biggest consumer. It's $5/month per extra GB if i pay beforehand, $10/month if I go over and then pay. If I reach 22 GB on the 20th (holy!) then at that rate, I'll reach 30 by the end of the month, which is $50 if I pre-pay, $100 if I let it run and pay afterwards. AND they require the upped bandwidth to subside for a month before they stop the monthly charge, so we're talking two months of whatever this is, which is $100-200 in the end. Yikes.

I just found out I have pretty much unlimited bandwidth once I get it hosted here via DSL. Thank goodness for that!

Also to consider is that the Chatterbox Challenge is being judged from now until April something, meaning that due to the laws of procrastination, you probably wont get judged until things are back up again.

Feel free to post the above in the forums if someone is asking about it.

The Professor

Thanks Lunar. The contest was the first thing I thought of when I saw the news too.