autoscend - a sl_ascend fork/continuation

[fronobulax]

Seeing as we only call handleOven (the range using function) at D2 initialization, L11 wine bomb making, or trying to get Milk of Magnesium, chances are it was at the very start of D2 or when you tried to make a Milk.

I do see where there might be a problem though. We try to buy a range if you have 1000 meat more than the cost with whatever NPC discount you might have but only when it is called so at one of the 3 points above. The only path where we try to actively buy a range basically all of the time is WereProf because of the limited availability of the Professor's cottage. We don't account for someone pulling it from their storage. SO, maybe we should fallback to that if there is actually one in storage?

I get that we are somewhat at cross-purposes here because I prize automation over speed.

The script stops because I can't cook fancy food without a range. In my automation centric world, that is the wrong thing to do. The script should get a range, stop trying to cook fancy food or use hybrid strategy depending on run conditions. If it stops in SC then I am going to sacrifice one pull to get the range - indeed I might actually start pulling it on D1 just so I don't have to deal with the issue In HC I am most likely to sacrifice 10 turns at the Job Board to get 1,000 meat and buy the range.

Autoscend has a few sub-optimal strategic choices hidden behind preference gates. "Enough people want to do this so we will accommodate them but that doesn't mean it will be the default". I could see this behind one.

I also find it somewhat illogical for the script to tell me I can't cook when there is an unused range in inventory but there may be a reason not to use a range if it got there manually that I can't figure put.

Thank you.

 

[erct657]

Do you know what it was trying to cook? I have a draft PR to pull a range if there is one in storage and the buying function didn't work, but that won't help if it fails when trying to create a specific kind of food because there is no range

 

[fronobulax]

Do you know what it was trying to cook? I have a draft PR to pull a range if there is one in storage and the buying function didn't work, but that won't help if it fails when trying to create a specific kind of food because there is no range

Nothing that I recall seeing in the gCLI or that got logged. I always figured the script had a list of optimal foods and was trying to cook one of them.

 

[fronobulax]

Tangent. HC, Standard Pastamancer just got to the Tower Door and autoscend didn't have keys so it stopped. Don't know why it failed to get the keys but...

I figured I had to get the keys manually and that mean I had to eat and drink on my own. KoLmafia says (and displays in the consumption GUI) I can make soft green echo etc. martini. But when I try and do so

Verifying ingredients...
Verifying ingredients for soft green echo eyedrop antidote martini (1)...
Verifying ingredients for rockin' wagon (1)...
Auto-repair was unsuccessful.

(autoRepairBoxServants is false)

This raises some questions. First is autoscend's "range problem" triggered by KoLmafia not telling the truth when autoscend asks whether something can be made? Mafia says Yes, autoscend tries and then mafia says "can't cook". If this is caused by a setting or a script of mine then there might be one more thing autoscend needs to check or disable. I'll do a little digging.

P.S. - trying some thing manually in the relay browser reminded me free crafting might be a factor. The browser let me craft the martini even though it claimed Shake would take one turn and I had zero turns.

 

[erct657]

I know why it failed to get keys and that was because of the Patriotic Eagle Screech merge a week ago. A fix was just merged in to correct that. Basically, it would fail to use the Gelatinous Cubeling and so it wouldn't go to the DD.

Definitely could be something to do with KoLmafia not telling us the right info about a food and it's ability to be cooked. Building on your P.S., could there be issues when free crafts (or maybe just certain free crafts) are available that Mafia thinks that you have a full kitchen? There might also be some hardcoded food somewhere in autoscend that we try to make but we need the range for. I do know that we try to get the range when cooking the Unstable Fulminate so that would be one potential breaking point.

 

[Grimwiz]

I'm puzzling over a failure to progress at the moment, and I can't work out a simple workaround. I think I'll have to finish the war manually, I've never seen this fault before. fragment of GUI log pasted below.

In a nutshell, I'm playing a Disco Bandit and when I talk to Yossarian the junkman expecting to be handed a molybdenum magnet all he says is "Hey, you can tell your officers that I'll have the next shipment of cars ready by the end of the day". It's as if the quest is already completed but both "guide" and "autoscend" identify this as something still to be done. Kolmafia version is KoLmafia-28345.jar.

I suspect, as when I manually fight in the way, as I'm killing 8 hippies at a time this quest has actually been completed but not marked as such. I'll see if I can manually change the state of the gremlin quest.

[DEBUG] Removing "-equip beer helmet" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-hat" to current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Removing "-equip distressed denim pants" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-pants" to current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Removing "-equip bejeweled pledge pin" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-acc3" to current maximizer statement
We don't have the molybdenum magnet but should... please get it and rerun the script
Stack trace:
at L12_gremlins (level_12.ash:1251)
at L12_islandWar (level_12.ash:2417)
at process_tasks (autoscend.ash:1745)
at doTasks (autoscend.ash:1984)
at auto_begin (autoscend.ash:2101)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2131)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)

 

[erct657]

I'm puzzling over a failure to progress at the moment, and I can't work out a simple workaround. I think I'll have to finish the war manually, I've never seen this fault before. fragment of GUI log pasted below.

In a nutshell, I'm playing a Disco Bandit and when I talk to Yossarian the junkman expecting to be handed a molybdenum magnet all he says is "Hey, you can tell your officers that I'll have the next shipment of cars ready by the end of the day". It's as if the quest is already completed but both "guide" and "autoscend" identify this as something still to be done. Kolmafia version is KoLmafia-28345.jar.

I suspect, as when I manually fight in the way, as I'm killing 8 hippies at a time this quest has actually been completed but not marked as such. I'll see if I can manually change the state of the gremlin quest.

[DEBUG] Removing "-equip beer helmet" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-hat" to current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Removing "-equip distressed denim pants" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-pants" to current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Removing "-equip bejeweled pledge pin" from current maximizer statement
[DEBUG] Adding "-acc3" to current maximizer statement
We don't have the molybdenum magnet but should... please get it and rerun the script
Stack trace:
at L12_gremlins (level_12.ash:1251)
at L12_islandWar (level_12.ash:2417)
at process_tasks (autoscend.ash:1745)
at doTasks (autoscend.ash:1984)
at auto_begin (autoscend.ash:2101)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2131)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)
at safe_preference_reset_wrapper (autoscend.ash:2138)

If it is complete, but for some reason autoscend/guide thinks that it is still active it's a prefs issue. Run this in the gCLI if you completed it as a fratboy. If a hippy, change fratboy to hippy.

set sidequestJunkyardCompleted = fratboy

 

[Grimwiz]

I think I worked out what triggered the situation - I was away from home and ran kolmafia+autoscend on a different computer that had a vanilla configuration and that might have swapped me from frat to hippy or vice versa.

 

[HippoKing]

We guarantee nothing if you run across different computers. Mafia (and to a lesser extent autoscend) maintain state, not all of which is easily recreatable.

 

[Crowther]

We guarantee nothing if you run across different computers. Mafia (and to a lesser extent autoscend) maintain state, not all of which is easily recreatable.

I lost my preferences a few months ago and I'm still finding places where mafia's state is off. I'm thinking it might be a good project. No way autoscend can handle that.

 

[fronobulax]

I lost my preferences a few months ago and I'm still finding places where mafia's state is off. I'm thinking it might be a good project. No way autoscend can handle that.

It is probably worth starting a separate thread about preference management. It has been an "issue" for at least a decade and a half and there is still room for improvement.