Chapter 2 - Getting Started Automating

Now that you've gotten some familiarity with the basic structure and mechanics of your corporation you may have noticed that parts of it can be fairly click-intensive to manage by hand.

The solution to this is to start creating scripts to automate the most tedious parts. This immediately presents an issue however, because the Corporation interface functions cost a lot of RAM to use. If you're just starting in Bitnode 3, you can only run one or two corporation functions in a script before your script can't be run on your home computer without upgrading!

Because of this it is helpful to focus our scripts to use as few Corporation APIs as possible.

Ideas for Incremental Automation Scripts

• Employee Morale and Energy Maintainer Script
• Set All Cities Buy and Sell Amounts
• Fill Excess Warehouse Room with Boost Materials
• Manual Production and Sales Optimizer

Employee Morale and Energy Maintainer Script

Simple script to purchase Tea and throw parties every cycle if the morale and energy are significantly below 100%.

Set All Cities Buy and Sell Amounts

Simple command line utility to set the buy amount or sell price and amount for all cities in a division at once.

Fill Excess Warehouse Room with Boost Materials

Simple script with React UI that has a slider to control the percentage of the warehouse to fill with Boost materials.

Use naive iterative algorithm to figure out optimal boost material ratios.

Manual Production and Sales Optimizer

Create a small React UI with sliders to control the quantity of materials purchased and the rate above market price to sell them at.

Progressive Enhancements

• Record the amount sold per-cycle and adjust to automatically produce that amount.
• Predict the amount of outputs we will produce