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by bluesnowmonkey 3973 days ago
Given that it has a single persistent world, I would expect the one best player to take over the entire game. I wonder how they counteract that.

The best botting experiences I've had were in a tournament format. Initially you square off against opponents who you can teach your bot to beat using only very simple heuristics. Then you progress to opponents who require increasingly more sophisticated algorithms. It wouldn't be fun for novices to immediately face the best bot anyone has produced.

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This is described here: http://support.screeps.com/hc/en-us/articles/203079471-Indie...

You can't control the entire world, there are game mechanics to prevent this.