Mining Bot Question and Hints

[Viir (Michael Rätzel)]

Welcome, and thank you very much for sharing these improvements!

@TheRealManiac

in the combat defense, the ship approach to the enemy, with a mining barge a terrible
Why?

Because the bot was programmed based on the description at First timer, mining bot question!
That information about mining barges was not available then.

@TheRealManiac

The Mining Barge is very slow and is the hole time approach behind the enemy, i change it in that way, that the target lock range, increased to 25000 meters.
if the enemy not in that range, i change it to “EndDecissionPath Wait” in the else branch from “acquireLockedTargetForCombat” an wait that the NPC came to my range.

Here is a version adapted to your observations:

Adapt to observation from TheRealManiac

@TheRealManiac

heading to an astroid, the bot is the hole time “Approach” clicking, in my eyes is better to record the approach click, and send the bot in a wait loop.

No problem, that wait loop is implemented here:

Adapt to idea from TheRealManiac - point 2

@TheRealManiac

if the ship reached the target range, it will be usefull to stop the ship, but at the moment i didnt found the send command for shortcuts.

We can do this using the KeyDown and KeyUp options. Here is the complete bot with the ship stop command:

Adapt to idea from TheRealManiac - point 3

This is the part building the action:

stopShipAction : TreeLeafAct
stopShipAction =
    { firstAction = VolatileHostInterface.KeyDown VolatileHostInterface.VK_CONTROL
    , followingSteps =
        [ ( "SPACE down", always (Just (VolatileHostInterface.KeyDown (VolatileHostInterface.VirtualKeyCodeFromInt 0x20))) )
        , ( "SPACE up", always (Just (VolatileHostInterface.KeyUp (VolatileHostInterface.VirtualKeyCodeFromInt 0x20))) )
        , ( "CTRL up", always (Just (VolatileHostInterface.KeyUp VolatileHostInterface.VK_CONTROL)) )
        ]
    }

@TheRealManiac

i added a function for get the distanceinmeters as a value and show it in the bot message DescribeBranch one for debug one to have a better overview to find out if i am right.

McMahon recently made an observation leading to a similar change. This also displays the distance of the chosen overview entry:

Adapt to observation from McMahon