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This is so exciting. I've always wanted to program bots to play online games -- mainly for learning purposes. (Can I make a bot that plays better than me?)

But I've never done it because of the risk of bans. I'm glad that Blizzard has opened it up for people to experiment with this. I wonder how it will interact with any sort of anti-cheat systems in place, etc.

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This has been around for awhile [1]. They give you an API to use and then you upload your JAR. They have a Twitch channel [2] that is constantly streaming AIs playing against each other in their tournament.

[1] http://sscaitournament.com

[2] https://www.twitch.tv/certicky

This has to be the most interesting link in this whole thread. Thank you so much!

You should give Adventure Land [1] a try. Its a browser MMO where you can code a bot to play for you. Its still in alpha but it has been pretty stable for the past few days that I have been playing it.

[1] http://adventure.land/

Bans should never keep you back. A fake email is pennies to how much is gained from learning or building something incredible

A fake email won't help when you are banned by your unique ID that you paid, in the case of SC2: Legacy of the Void, at least $40 for.

Is $40 really not worth a year or more of experimentation? You can also do a lot of learning through replays or vs AI.

I personally am willing to pay $40 for an environment to test my ai on for a couple months.

You can always start with something like codingame.com to practice.

Yes! I tried this site a while back and loved it. It fell off my radar a while back, but I'll need to jump back into it.

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