Hehe! Which part don't YOU understand?

You are already using software to control "hunters".

Could you use bot software to control "armies"? Certainly!

It's only a matter of the scale that the game is played at. The individual solider level, or the army level.

But ultimately, it's still humans controlling the game.

Whether or not you or I have access to the software to control a hunter or an army isn't relevant.


EDIT: I should also say that Huntercoin is first and foremost a PROTOCOL. The game is a part of that protocol. Big implications there.

Yes! That! And just to BayAreaCoins and me! (Well... maybe Snailbrain and a few others... but...)

To tell the truth, I like a lot of what BGB has done so far. Those that understand what he has done will understand why I appreciate it.

But the crown holder can't destruct...

Any plans on releasing a public version?

Well, instamined and raped to death. None of the pools work worth shit.

Fuck this. I'm outta here.

So, before the release, there are 2 blocks... now, with 2 minute blocks, we're over block 1200 within 30 minutes?

fusion.hashing.at hasn't found a single block, and the other 2 pools aren't online. The official pool flips on and off, but isn't up longer than a few seconds.

What's going on?

This is starting to stink.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

The short term is still bleak...

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-away-jobs-2014-3
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/13/bill-gates-says-neither-people-nor-governments-are-prepared-for-the-huge-changes-coming-to-the-labor-market/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246986/Gates_sees_software_replacing_people_Greenspan_calls_for_more_H_1Bs_


What's interesting is that Huntercoin offers a very real, highly controlled & predictable (cryptographically secure with set rules) environment where exactly these kinds of scenarios can be explored on an abstract level.

i.e. Will my prediction of human "bot masters" become a reality for Huntercoin, and does that model extend to "software automation", and if so, how? (I would exclude maintenance from "bot master".)

Come with me if you want to go to the moon!

I was getting that on the short chain before. Deleting the blockchain and resyncing got me on the longer chain, and those problems disappeared (on 2 different machines). I posted how to do that a few pages ago.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.msg5709519#msg5709519

It worked for me. YMMV.

I was thinking about this, and I think that what will happen will evolve beyond "bots".

Basically, I see the game right now as humans playing "hunters" or running "bots". But the bots won't last long. What I predict is that the game will evolve from humans playing hunters, to humans playing "armies".

When I say "armies", I mean humans using more complex GUI interfaces to control larger numbers of hunters in a semi-automated fashion. i.e. There will be humans intelligently guiding bot armies against other humans intelligently guiding bot armies.

Purely automated bots will suffer under those conditions, and...
=---> either disappear or evolve radically...
=---> which will lead to more complex "army" software for humans to use to counter the more intelligent bots,
=---> which will lead to more intelligent bots,
=---> which will lead to more complex "army" software for humans to use to counter the more intelligent bots,
=---> which will lead to more intelligent bots...

tl;dr - Huntercoin will shift from humans controlling "hunters" to humans controlling "hunter armies".

So, for the people complaining about "bots"... Just wait. Your time is coming!

2) No, probably not. If you've not used the wallet for anything, then there should be no need for a new backup. However, that being said, I'm on the paranoid side, and the utility I wrote lets me back up all my wallets with 1 click, so... I tend to create backups fairly often. There's no harm in having an extra backup. There is harm in not having a recent enough backup though.
3) You'll need to open up the QT and sync to find out. Compare it against huntercoin.info (on the short chain) with what other people post here. At the moment, I'm on block 93,003.

You don't technically *need* to have a sync'd wallet to send/receive, but it's probably a good idea to do anyways. I just leave wallets open and running to keep them sync'd.

But Huntercoin is a bit different than most... For your playing wallet, you don't want it encrypted. For your non-playing "wallet" wallet, you should encrypt that. You can swap out wallets easily enough by moving the files around. Make sure to back them both up and to know which is which. My backup utility doesn't handle this particular situation automatically. You'd need to have probably 2 folders labelled something like "playwallet" and "coinwallet" and then manually add them to the list of files to back up.

A lot of "BGB" out there are fakes.

Heck, I had 1 fake BGB before!

But BGB had over 1000 teams before. Not just 400...

Actually, that can be right. There were a lot of coins out there when BGB dropped out. He just killed off the troops & left. So, yeah - a lot of loot was left on the table.

That seems to be pretty common - people on the longest chain seem all smooth (from hearing people talk), while people on the other chain(s) are hosed with errors (again, from hearing people talk, and personal experience).

My guess is that the longest chain here is going to be the one that we take forward, but that's just a guess on my part.

Ok... a post NOT about "which chain"...

KEEPING THE CROWN

I think a lot of people noticed that the crown was being kept pretty well for a long time, and being cashed out fairly often.

The only way I can think of to do this is to get in another colour, destruct, then swoop in and snatch up the crown and coins from it. There's a risk there, but it's a calculated risk.

Does anyone have any other ideas on it?

That maximum number of blocks changing constantly is normal. It looks like you're on the same chain as I am, i.e. the "right" chain~!  

2 of the machines are running off of SSD, while one other is running off of a 7,200 RPM SATA drive.

Block height for the first 2 is 92,277 right now. I can't check the other machine at the moment, but I know that it is on the same blockchain, so it must be 92,277 as well.

Ooops... 92,278 now

To follow up on this...

It didn't work. I still got stuck.

The procedure I outlined in this post worked for me:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.msg5709519#msg5709519

tl;dr - Just redownload the entire blockchain.

I went back to check on it, and the transfer is "PENDING". Jokes aside... I'm going to skip contacting support for now. I figure he's probably quite busy already and will get to fixing this issue as a batch transaction. It will likely get cleared up easier if I don't contact support.

I can tell you what worked for me...

1) Open the "%appdata%\huntercoin" folder. (The "datadir" or data directory.)

2) *** BACK UP YOUR WALLET.DAT AND HUNTERCOIN.CONF FILES *** (see my sig for a wallet.dat backup utility) DO NOT DELETE YOUR WALLET!

3) Move all files except for wallet.dat and huntercoin.conf to another folder. You can delete these files after you have completed all the steps here.

4) Ensure that you have the "addnode" entries in your huntercoin.conf file that are in the OP.

5) Start huntercoin-qt.exe. It will download the blockchain entirely from scratch.

6) Once the blockchain has finished downloading, you can then safely delete the files you moved in step 3.

That has worked for me on 3 different machines.

I tried the "-rescan" option several times on 2 machines -- no luck. It didn't work. It has worked in the past, but not for the kinds of errors that we're seeing now.