A practice bot is an imaginary player ... a player who you can play against on a practice table.

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I know this has come up before but there wer worries about how to set the oponent , well ive come up with a way . Nick could pick a player with a less average, average, good, less pro, pro. Or maybe half of tht ... lol ... its just a lil guideline . he could then record 200 - 300 of there games by writing a small program which would take the shots and record them . he couold then take out the fouls and create them into a bot. the reason i say take out the fouls is because you want to get better and if the comp does all the fouls you can do you will be playing a mirror ( if you get me :-S ) lol . n e ways i was thinking that this could work , then you could practice against a lesser bot and if you can beat it move up , if you cant keep playing it til you can ... then you can move up etc then you'l get better .

Edited at 16:02 Fri 17/03/06 (GMT)

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I think that nick is the god of online pool lol and can make this work .. think about it , about 5 yrs ago you wouldnt of thought hed of been able to get this far with funkypool ( poolsharks ) would you ? yes you had faith but didnt think that it could get THIS good . Hes even got smilies lol

Your Views would be greatly appreciated ,

Thanks

i like the idea but i dont think it would work because it would take way to long to compile and u would have 2 set it up2 record shots and then get peoples permisson etc and it would add a hell of a lot of lag to the game just do it as a 1 person practise with all the rules applied 2 it like i have susgested b4

not really. im sure all these free members would be wiling to have there shots recorded .. it wouldnt cause la because it could be a feature

Maybe suggested for the premium version if too much of a trouble for this one now.

to be a feautre would mean having every1 doing it it would be a selection of people and for the peopele it would cause some lag cuz it would have 2 be sent back to the servers and so on trust me i think i know cuz i do a networking course so i do have some idea on how this site works

No need for it really, just play friendlies, much easier.

I don't think that idea would work unfortunately. I understand your point about recording chosen shots, but that would only work if the balls were in exactly the same place in every game.

Every player playing the bot would leave the balls in different positions, therefore a shot that would pot the ball in one game would hit nothing in the next game.

I think it would be virtually impossible to write a programme that could read where the balls are on the table and then take a shot according to their position. In fact I would guess that it would take more code than the entire current funkypool code! And that is if it is even possible......

In any case, I agree with guess_who, now funkypool is quite busy, it is easy to find opponents and play friendlies.

Edited at 06:38 Sat 18/03/06 (GMT)

okies ... was just a suggestion ;-)