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Originally Posted by username1337
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With the simplicity of writing mouse/keyboard input bot programs, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the hardcores were entirely automated and responding to parses of the log file. The only minor complications are implementing intelligent enough NLP algorithms to handle players sending tells trying to buy a good and being able to recognize what they're interested in and how much they're offering (and generating appropriate responses) and then implementing a character recognition from image algorithm to handle decisions on where to click the mouse based on this information. Quite an interesting machine learning application.
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I hightly doubt that is happening, but I could be wrong.
While parsing the text is easy (my auction tracker does it from the log files to add the item links - the wiki one does it to pull prices related to items) having an image algorithm as you mentioned sounds like it would be nearly impossible to write since some items share the same icons when put in trade windows - although someone writing those "easy" mouse/keyboard input programs to detect where to click on the screen could probably just mouse over the icon area, run OCR over the item hover tip and approve/deny the trade based on what else is in the window, amirite?
Edit: A simple implementation to avoid having to stare at the screen however would be to turn on /log and have something (grep) parse for messages to you and when encountered send off an alert via text, IM or email - although repeating your /auc would require external macroing which is illegal in p99 tos.