Having recently discovered Discord (which, near as I can tell, is a "chat system with history"), I saw a post describing another farming script as a "strict superset of VMF".
That is provably false. A précis of VMF is "do everything Veracity wants to do every day with the absolute minimum of interaction - once I have configured exactly what tasks I want it to do - and spend any additional turns simply farming in Barf Mountain" - again, allowing configuration of how to do that. (Which is why I never use Daily Deeds; they are all coded into VMF for me.)
And if it is helpful to other people, great! I am happy to make improvements to make it even better for them.
Also, as originally announced, "Provide code to do all sorts of KoL actions that demonstrate how _I_ would approach the problem, which might be useful for other scripts to steal and/or learn from." Caveat: I have learned a lot since I started this and early code has not necessarily been modified to use that learning.
By "absolute minimum of interaction", I mean:
1) Log in
2) Click side button #3, which runs VMF
3) When it finishes, log out.
Why is the other script not a "strict superset"?
1) It does things that I do NOT want it to do - which are reasonable defaults if the ONLY thing you want to do is maximize Meat.
For example, my main wants to fax in a black crayon penguin or constellation and farm Robortender drops using free turns for the things I want to lubricate my Robortender with. As opposed to embezzlers, which is the default because it is probably what everyone else wants.
2) It doesn't do things I DO want it to do. For example, call my Spacegate script to explore a random planet. I have 5 characters with that IOTM and I have been working for many years to build my Spacegate planet database. It takes turns, which do not generate Meat .
3) The other script seems to consider the mall price of an item as income. Since I have zero interest in pricing items in my mall store and monitoring sales and maybe repricing if I over priced them, and so on, that's not useful - to me.
I expect the other script does things I have on my "To Do" list. Like, say, reminiscing (in addition to or instead of Faxing), and then Digitizing and/or backing up, say. I bet a lot of people would do that on embezzlers - just like VMF's default for fax/putty/rain-doh - and that's fine. I might use Witchess Knights - free fights with a guaranteed drop which happens to be a very nice meat drop food. It's on my To Do list to figure out how to configure it and then actually do it reasonably.
Advantages of the other script:
1) It has more than one person working on it. Hence, it gets features added to it sooner.
Disadvantages of the other script:
1) It is written in a language that I find incomprehensible, which means that I cannot modify it. But, that's a "me" problem, not actually a "disadvantage".
Net result is that I am firm in my belief that "the other script is not for me." Which says nothing whatsoever about its suitability for others.
Regarding Discord: I HATE interacting with other people on chat. Having history is nice - but with N different conversations going on at the same time, unless you are actively chatting with somebody, it is a lot of work figuring out which messages are part of a "thread". I vastly prefer a forum with each post as a part of a thread, rather than a chat "channel" - like a sub-forum - where all threads are intermingled.