I use bigInt and bigDec when I wrote a pokemonGo bot way back when the cracked api released in like… 2016?
I didn’t bump into the particular issue, but not being much of a Java person, they were very helpful. My bot was pretty consistent at getting lvl30 in a night and usually something fun like a snorlax or charizard.
When they broke the api I stopped playing, writing the code for a bit was more fun (for me) than playing as intended.
As an aside, are there games like that, which require writing code? I imagine the market isn’t big for those, but I sure had a blast for a month or two.
Zachtronics (https://www.zachtronics.com/) is amazing, but their games are lower level programming. You're typically designing hardware or writing assembly. I haven't played them all, but I can vouch for last call BBS (design hardware), exapunks (software controlling bots), shenzen i/o (you design hardware and write the assembly to power it), and tis-100 (writing assembly for a distributed, cluster of processors).
It sounds a lot more intimidating than reality. The puzzles start off easy enough that you can ramp into the difficulty., and they usually have many different possible solutions. You can "win" with easy solutions, and then later revisit them and try to produce the "best" solution. (Often pretty difficult).
To be fair, I did come at them from somewhat of a background in hardware, but my son also loved them (with no such background).
I’ll hafta see if I have the code somewhere. IIRC it had something to do with lat/lon, calculating the next “step in the walk” and making it appear human in nature.
I didn’t bump into the particular issue, but not being much of a Java person, they were very helpful. My bot was pretty consistent at getting lvl30 in a night and usually something fun like a snorlax or charizard.
When they broke the api I stopped playing, writing the code for a bit was more fun (for me) than playing as intended.
As an aside, are there games like that, which require writing code? I imagine the market isn’t big for those, but I sure had a blast for a month or two.