(04-12-2016, 11:13 PM)Honest Wrote:Welcome to the AgarioForums Slither.io Wikipedia!
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Slither.io is a raving success online program diversion created by LowTech Enterprises where you control a snake and play with a large amount of online players. The goal is to avoid other snakes, and make your snake growing the largest. Today, Slither.io is owned bymoneyclipMiniClip,
Q2: Slither laggs. It seems there is still like, 500+ people a server which is pretty insane and lags a lot. Does anyone know exactly when this will be fixed so I can finally get bigger than before. Thanks for any responces.A2: There's an issue within the core of this matter.
At specific hours every day, there are servers (perhaps all servers?) infested with bots. These are not the kind of bots that go into you, like in Agario, but they are the kind of bots that play against everyone. The thing is, they are very easily recognizable. As a player, you can see how they take non-human decisions. They tend to not eat mass, and if anyone is close to them, they turn on speed boost to make you crash. They play very well, though only with the sizes between 10 to 2k max.
The bots often cause servers to be infested with 500+ people at once. Something which does cause lagg.
I do not know why this happens. It seems to be like it is very organized, the bots come on at specific times in the day. They play well. I can assure you, they are bots. Their names are often just "Alice" "bob" "Hax" "Slitherking" and you know what?
I believe it is Miniclip running these bots. For what reason? Who knows. Possibly to trick their own statistics including more players than there actually is? It might also be an AI experiment $ is running. Basically the more bots you run on more servers, the faster the process to smarten the bots become, progress quickly. So there are hundreds of bots running, and it works like evolution. Only the snakes that survive until X hiscore (large scores) pass their "genes"/code to the next bots. This way, the code changes slightly from each surviving "generation" of snakes, until it has been completely revamped from starting-code to now-code where you have snakes nearly impossible to beat because they play so professionaly. Ask AGF @sgaf about AI, he should know everything about it.
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Thanks.-Honest
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I'd say you're right about it being miniclip's doing. I've never seen a bot and taken note of it, but if they really are playing well and there are that many of them with names like that, I would seriously doubt any 3rd parties would be doing stuff like that. An impressive long-term genetic AI development system like that from your description seems like it would have to be someone with easy access to the server as well as a TON of dormant computing power.
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -Bruce Lee
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -Bruce Lee
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