EVEBOT Combat Bot

[GliderPro]

I am getting a bit tired of mining and hauling. I am thinking of working on a combat bot. Specifically I will be working on a bot to rat in 0.0 space. I fly a drone boat so I will concentrate on getting drone automation working well.

What features are important to you in a combat bot?

 

[kingfisher]

selective targeting
immediately going to unload if it has found extremely valuable loot
realizing if it is being scrammed and to target the offenders
avoiding getting stuck on roids

 

[devdvd]

EVE Combat Bot

Ability to watch local (or at least overview) for "hostle" targets (yes i know everyting that isn't blue is hostile in 00). be really neat if you could find out its shiptype to know if your capable of beating it if not run. dont know how possible any of this is but you asked for ideas.

 

[Simplify]

- If it's a drone region bot, ability to ignore Frigates / Cruisers. We only go after BS/BC spawns in drone space.

- Auto navigate belts / gates in a system to clear them of spawns

- if non-blue enters system, warp to safe spot and cloak immediately (even if currently fighting a rat) -- even if it's a ship type you can destroy easily.

- auto recall / preserve damaged drones before they are destroyed

- auto repair drones at station

- get full aggro on ship before launching drones

- auto align to celestial objects while fighting; these should be temporary "warp to" locations before warping to safe spot

- auto salvage / auto loot while fighting

- optimize cap (run shield / armor rep / boosters only as needed)

 

[aralis]

Safety features: (to look less bot like)

- Random Selection of asteroid to warp to

- Warp to random distance

Is this open for other devs to get into because I would be interested in helping.

 

[Konis]

- if non-blue enters system, warp to safe spot and cloak immediately (even if currently fighting a rat) -- even if it's a ship type you can destroy easily.

I believe ths is one of the most important features as without it I can't see many people using the bot. Without sitting and watching it 24/7 anyway.

 

[Charles2584]

Macro ratters in 0.0 tend to safespot and cloak upon ANYONE entering local besides you. Some even log out and log back in after 5 minutes. Which is probably a good option for 0.0 ratting if you intend to go to some system back end system where no one else usually goes.

Ratting Ravens would need some target paint love and make drone support for DroneSize to RatShipSize (release mediums for cruisers/destroyers and smalls for frigates)

Some form of inscript isk / hour tracking would be nice.

CHAINS (oh dear god this). Find a spawn that has 3 BS (1mil plus bounty) and CHAIN THEM (leave one ship up in that spawn and they will respawn). Some people say that if you slightly damage the ship you leave alive that it keeps them from warping to other belts longer (every so often a spawn will warp to another belt or gate).

GSC support (At a different Safespot) for dumping loot and salvage. I have 9 GSC's in my way the hell out of the way deep in goonswarm territory ratting system. I drop all loot in there and then once a month bring a hauler and do runs back to station to drop it.

Tractor Beam and Salvager support of course, have it drag the ship it's salvaging behind it as it goes to the next ship it's going to salvage to save time.

That's all I have for now.

 

[dauser]

Monitor when the drones shields are gone and recall it to dronebay to reset shields then relaunch.

 

[Aboron]

trinity drone shields

I haven't had this work for me so well since trinity, in fact i've even docked my ship at a station to unload, then gone back out and still had shield wear showing on the drones when i launched them.