Clicker Heroes Bot army. A friendly discussion?

I've been making awful clickbots for this game as well (just start about two weeks ago). It's a part of the game for me. I started out by making a really simply autoclicker script. But, as I learned how to play the game, I found there were more things to automate. I've been working on my for a bit now.

Here is my dumb bot, an AHK script: http://pastebin.com/uGNjPWhg

(If anyone wants to try it, you need Windows, AHK, 1080p resolution, and run the game in Chrome at normal zoom. Further, this bot is tailored for mid-late game play -- it probably does nothing for you if you aren't there. I highly suggest running the bot inside a virtual machine.)

It ascends for me (I've got it set to ~49 minutes atm, since that is what I've measured my souls per minute as maxing out at). It buys levels in ancients for me. It bootstraps with midas into my Iris level. It buys the best heroes it can and buys upgrades. It uses skill combos. It clicks the clickables. It doesn't spend rubies or gild, but I often prefer to do those by hand.

My bot is extremely dumb. It does not interpret game states at all. It just clicks in the right places at the right time, and it is tailored to my game in particular (not a one-size fits all). I've not seen found a bot that doesn't interpret game states (and make decisions based on that) which does all of what mine does, so that's pretty cool.

I'm gonna make a second game and a second bot though, probably using python to image search and actually make it compute what to do in a given circumstance. It will be interesting to see if I can make something which competes with my AHK script (which is pretty darn fast).

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