Kovan's OGbot news

v2.2 released. OGBot goes Payware.

2007-06-10T19:51:00.000-07:00

OGBot is not free anymore!. It now costs one SMS (from 1€ to 2€ aprox., depending on country). Source version is and will always be free.

These are the new features:

v2.2
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June, 11. 2007
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** Too many changes to mention, some of them are: **
- Support for new OGame login page.
- Login loop fixed.
- Added random delays to simulate human behavior
- Configurable deuterium source planet
- Espionage reports can be copied to clipboard by right-clicking.
- Added chinese, danish, russian and dutch languages.
- New plugin system.
- Harder to detect by game admins.
- A lot less espionages are neccesary, hence less overall activity.
- Before attacks only one probe is sent.
- Much faster inactive planets search.
- Reserved slots are no longer filled with senseless espionages.
- Attacks and espionages from planets with no probes or cargos are deactivated for a while.
- Rush mode at midnight (attack new inactive planets as they are found if they are very rentable).
- Option to stop attacks before midnight, in order to free slots for rush mode.
- Daily inactives scan is now done ASAP each day.
- Any available cargo type is sent if the selected type of attacking fleet is not available.
- Source planet and last espionage time are now shown in the main window.
- Internal algorithms rewritten.
- Minor changes and fixes.
- New translation item added in language files.

v2.1.2 released

2007-03-10T10:33:00.000-08:00

Upgrade is recommended, as 2.1.1 has some important bugs. Note that after the upgrade all the planets will be re-spied.

Here's the changelog:

v2.1.2
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March, 10. 2007
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- Selectable attack algorithm.
- Less memory used.
- Algorithm that selects how many probes are sent is smarter.
- Now nothing is never deleted from the database.
- Planets are shown ordered.
- Made possible translation to chinese and korean (further testing needed).
- Fixed bug in daily inactive scan which after a while resulted in message
"Fatal error found, terminating. There are no undefended planets in range."
- Fixed bug bot not attacking players with no alliance.
- Source code refactored and other minor fixes.

v2.1.1

2007-03-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

v2.1.1
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March, 5. 2007
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- botdata now is backed up before re-spying.
- Added support for ogame.com.pt/ogame.com.br and ogame.com.hr/ogame.ba
- Added command-line option (-a) to autostart bot without clicking start.
- Replaced list of planets to avoid by list of players and alliances to avoid.
- Customizable rentability formula.
- Redesigned options dialog and added options to customize user-agent and
solar systems per galaxy in the server.
- Fixed bugs
- Added some changes to emulate human behavior.
- Added support for universes with more than 9 galaxies.
- Added support for proxy.

PS: I added a "Donate" button. If some rich guy is reading this and likes OGBot, I'd be thankful ;).

v2.1

2007-02-25T13:46:00.000-08:00

v2.1
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February, 25. 2007
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- Added support for french (ogame.fr) and polish (ogame.pl)
- Added tolerance to buggy almost empty (N;) espionage reports.
- Added a configurable list of planets to avoid.
- Changed user agent to that of a fresh WinXP install:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
- Removed range limit.
- Language files are no longer need codified in UTF-8
- More descriptive messages when using translation files with errors.
- Other fixes.

Bot updated for OGame v0.76

2007-02-18T18:24:00.000-08:00

v2.08b
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February, 19. 2007
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- Now works with OGame last version, v0.76
- Added small delay after each espionage to simulate human behaviour.
- Fixed rare ImportError: No module named copy_reg

v2.07
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February, 14. 2007
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- Fixed bot only attacking with small cargos.
- Added fleet slots reservation for manual playing.
- Corrected spanish, english and italian translations.
- Improved hints for translations in the file english.ini
- Some minor changes.

Version 2 for Windows version released

2007-02-05T11:42:00.000-08:00

V2 for Windows released. Check the project page.

V2.04 released

2007-02-05T07:02:00.000-08:00

v2.04
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February, 5. 2007
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- Fixed bot never attacking because local date was different than server date.
- Translations do not have to match case.
- Logging works (log stored in files/log)
- Daily inactive scan is made right after 8:00h update.
- All planets don't have to be spied again after changing attack radio or source planets.

V2 Released

2007-02-02T16:15:00.000-08:00

Bot version 2 has been released. Check the project page for more info and downloads.
These are the new features:

- Now which planet will be attacked next is determined by a resource simulator that sorts target planets by quantity of potentially produced resources since last attack, and also taking distance into account.
- Possibility to choose which planet or planets are source of attacks. Moons are also allowed.
- Multi-language support. By now Spanish, English and Italian are included with the bot. To add one language just put the .ini file in the languages directory. Non-occidental languages should work also.
- Command line switch to have different configuration sets at once (example: --workdir uni18).
- Increases number of sent espionage probes until defense or buildings information is achieved.
- Redesigned user interface.

By now, Windows users will have to download libraries apart from the bot. A self-contained zip will be released in the near future.

Here is a screenshot:

Python Qt 4 bindings (PyQt4) for Ubuntu Dapper

2006-09-24T15:52:00.000-07:00

After some messing around, I have not found any precompiled Qt4 bindings for Python for Ubuntu Linux - Dapper Drake (there are some non-trivial issues that seem to make them difficult to backport, read here for more info), so I made the .deb package myself.

Please download it and tell me if it works: python2.4-qt4-4.1_0ubuntu1-1_i386.deb and sip4-4.4.5_0ubuntu1-1_i386.deb (both seem to be needed).

NOTE: you can't have Python-Qt3 bindings and this bindings installed at once (if you try apt will tell you anyway).

First bot release

2006-08-24T15:11:00.000-07:00

This is the first release.

The bot features automatic attacks to inactive planets and espionage database. Currently it is only translated for the spanish OGame, therefore by now only works on ogame.com.es

Published for educational purposes only. Terms of Use provided by OGame's owner Gameforge GmBH disallow the use of tools such as this.

Installation instructions:

Windows version: unzip & run
Source version: Should run on all Windows, all Linux, Mac OS X and other unixes and, in general, any platform supported by both Python programming languaje and QT library v 4.1 (not included in the source version)

Some screenshots
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