WorldWarBot 2020

WorldWarBot 2020

Updated Jun 13, 2021 at 12:38PM EDT by TheBigF.

Added Apr 21, 2019 at 04:00AM EDT by TheBigF.

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About

WorldWarBot 2020 is a Facebook page used to post simulations of wars between nations randomly selected by a computer program.

History

On March 4th, 2019, the first result from a bot-simulated war was posted on the Facebook page. Within two months, the post received more than 500 reactions, 280 comments and 80 shares (shown below).[3]

The official Facebook Group WorldWarBot PortalPosting was created on March 8th, 2019[1].


WorldWarBot 2020 Like This Page . March 4 . January 2020, Pakistan conquered Tajikistarn 030 530 289 Comments 85 S b Like Comment Share Most Relevant

The main page reached 100,000 Likes on March 24th, 2019. In response to the success, two official spin-off bots were launched: CivilWarBot 2020[4] and ItaliaGuerraBot 2020.[5] Along with this, many fan-made versions, such as "Argentina War Bot 1810[6] and MyHouse WarBot 2020[7] were created.


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On April 24th, 2019 the main page reached 200,000 Likes. Because it had been a popular request, a Twitter account for the Bot was created.

The 300,000 Likes milestone was reached on May 12th 2021 during the fourth run.

Features

On March 21st, 2019, a description for how the bot works was posted on the Facebook page.[2] The description states:

• This is an automatic bot that randomly generates posts, this is not an interactive bot (not yet, at least) so you can’t send request to have a specific outcome
• I started from the map linked below, so I didn’t decide who owns any disputed area and I’m not going to change it. This is a game and those areas are probably going to get conquered by someone else anyway, so don’t take it bad.
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/
• Every country is considered a sovereign territory, so countries like Greenland and New Caledonia are free. The only exception I’m aware of is French Guyana because it’s part of the same shape in the map and I didn’t realize that at first. I’ll change it for the next run.
• It chooses one random “territory”, calculates its centroid (average position of all the points in the figure) and then searches the closest centroid from territories not controlled by the same sovereign country. This mean that the chances of a country to be chosen as attacker are equal to the number of territories it controls.
• At the moment distance calculation is bugged and caused crazy thing like Antarctica conquering Russia. I already have a solution for that but I let the people choose and decided to keep the bugged version for this run. It will be fixed in the next one.

Under any given post about a country conquering a territory, the current Top 10 countries by territories controlled are listed.

Highlights

First Run

The first run of the Bot started on March 4th, 2019 with Pakistan conquering Tajikistan. Notable events included the “settlement” of many real-life conflicts, such as Israel conquering Palestine, Ireland conquering the UK, the Falkland Islands conquering Argentina and North Korea conquering South Korea.

Due to a bug when calculating the centroid of a territory, countries were able to conquer territories, which they do not directly border. This happened when Bangladesh conquered Russia. In-universe, this was jokingly explained as Bangladesh having developed "Portal" technology. This happened again when Antarctica conquered Russia. This, along with Antarctica conquering more and more territories, gave rise to the "Penguin Overlords," Noot Noot and “Holy Antarctic Empire” jokes within the fanbase. Other repeated jokes from the fan base include Lesotho being Wakanda from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Niger being called [REDACTED] to avoid the page being banned from Facebook, a boring back and forth between two countries being called “Ping Pong” and PewdiePie´s 9-Year-Old Army fighting for Sweden.

The last 10 countries remaining were: Paraguay, Lesotho, Syria, Antarctica, Sweden, New Caledonia, North Korea, "[REDACTED]" (a.k.a. Niger), Algeria and Mali. Other fan-favorite countries include Brunei, Poland, the United States of America and French Southern and Antarctic Lands.


.breakvourown nev s.co㎡ LIVE BREAKING NEWS BANGLADESH DISCOVERS PORTALS SARCASTIC COMMENT FROM PUTIN: "WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO, CONQUER US? 17:26 WorldWarBot 2020 Am 6. März um 01:16. July 2022, Israel conquered Palestine 5.276 890 Kommentare. 924 Mal geteilt VE.NGE TH ETHE AVENDETH AVENGETHE

The First Run was won by Paraguay on April 5th, 2019 by conquering all territories.


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On April 18th, 2019, the official WorldWarBot 2020 YouTube shared a video recap of the First Run. Within one week, the post received more than 10,000 views.



Second Run

In preparation for the Second Run, several changes were made. Some of them include fixing the Portal Bug, adding new smaller territories and overworking the centroid system. Also a revolt mechanic was added so that territories under a foreign countries control can gain their independence back. In a Facebook post the Civil War Bot explained the updates (shown below, left).

The second run of the Bot started on April 20th, 2019 with the Isle of Man conquering England. (Facebook Post Below, right)


CivilWarBot 2020 Am 9. Apr. um 11:31 . CWBot second run is starting today There will be some small changes to how the bot works It still chooses a random state and search for ts closest centroid, but it will also check all the other states to see if the chosen attacker is considered the closest for anyone. Then it randomly chooses who to attack between them and its closest. Sound more complicated than it actually is, it's really simple. I hope the pic explains it better. This should balance things out a bit without twisting it too much, making isolated states like Alaska and Hawaii now conquerable by at least one country from the start Other changes: the selected state now has a chance to gain independence if it's controlled by someone else, even if that state still exists somewhere else dashed lines for inner borders woah lakes! Now michigan doesn't look like Bart Simpson anymore added outlines of other lands so that it doesn't look like it's floating in the middle of nowhere - Colorado is chosen as attacker Colorado can attack Wyoming - Colorado can be attacked from Utah and New Mexico, but they're both controlled by the same state, so only the closest (Utah) is considered. Wyoming - the conquered state gets randomly chosen between Wyoming and Utah Utah Colorado New Mexico WorldWarBot 2020 3 Std.. January 2020, Isle of Man conquered England territory. England has been completely defeated. 240 countries remaining sle:ot Ma England

Notable events again included many historical and recent conflicts being featured, like Japan conquering the Korean peninsular, Austria conquering Czechia and Slovenia and Mexico conquering the United States. The first country to rebel and gain it´s independence back was Vietnam, who rose against Laos. Later the Netherlands and Bulgaria rose against Spain.

The last 10 countries remaining were: Spain, El Salvador, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Pitcairn Islands, Kyrgyzstan,Georgia, Bahrain, Japan and Serbia.

The Second Run was won by Spain on July 21st, 2019 by conquering all territories.


WorldWarBot 2020 26. Juni 2019 - O Congratulations to Spain! And thank you everyone for following this second run. I hope you enjoyed it. Even though it had some flaws, overal I liked it, but l'll keep improving. I'm also working on something bigger now. I'll tell you more soon. Espanita OO Du und 12.534 weitere Personen 1.350 Kommentare 915 Mal geteilt



Third Run

With no updates from the Bots Admin, the Facebook page stayed silent for more than half a year, until the third run was announced on March 26th, 2020, just over a year after the first run started.

The third run began a day later on March 27th, 2020 with the United Stated of America conquering Canada.


WorldWarBot 2020 1 Std. • O January 2020, United States of America conquered Canada territory. Canada has been completely defeated. 208 countries remaining. Canada United States of America OO 6.397 1.527 Kommentare • 1.132 Mal geteilt


In comparison to the runs before the visuals got improved and the list of competing countries slightly altered. Also the revolt mechanic was got changed so that countries that revolt can take other countries (with the same current overlords) with them. The first country to do so was Bahamas, which revolted against the Cayman Islands and took Cuba with it. Another change to the mechanic was the "deliberate" use of "Portal technology", meaning that there is a small chance that a country can conquer a territory anywhere on earth. The first use of this happened when Liberia conquered Liechtenstein.

Notable events included 3-way Ping pong matches for control of the Isle of Man and Argentina, Palestine conquering Israel and the post in which Germany conquered Luxembourg getting zucced, leading to Germany getting it´s name [REDACTED] as well. To choose Germanys new name a poll was held in the official group which resulted in [APOLOGY] being chosen (Shown below on the left). On April 2nd, 2020, just a day after the Germany incident, the Twitter account got suspended (Shown below on the right). The same evening the Admin announced that the Bot will be paused for one day because of the shadowbans and personal stuff he has to deal with. In reality the bot was paused for 4 days and continued on April 6th.


WorldWarBot 2020 hat eine Umfrage erstellt. ... Administrator Gestern um 16:51 as I said on the page I'm considering to redact Germany because zucc doesn't like it and don't want to get shadowbanned again. So here's some suggestions for the name, choose your favourite [REICHDACTED] [APOLOGY] [REDACTED 2] ELECTRIC BOOGALOO [DAS REDACTED] | [AΝΟΝΥΜISIERT +81 +52 that one country with the flag +52 [DATA EXPUNGED] +50 @worldwarbot Account suspended Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules

With all the drama going on around Germany it was no surprise that many Third Reich and Anschluss jokes were made once [Apology] conquered most counties around it including the BeNeLux, Switzerland, Czechia, Austria and even England. As of April 12th it had reached the Top10 leader board in therms of territories under it´s control.

The last 10 counties remaining were: Malaysia, Suriname, Sweden, Cameroon, Botswana, France, Palestine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tunisia and Antarctica.

The Third Run was won by Malaysia on May 28th, 2020 by conquering all territories.




Forth Run

After almost a year with no activity the forth run was announced on March 18th 2021 and began on March 24th 2021 with Bulgaria conquering Macedonia.


WorldWarBot 2020 Favoriten - 33 Min. O April 2021, Bulgaria conquered Macedonia territory. Macedonia has been completely defeated. 208 countries remaining. Check the full map at https://worldwarbot.com Bulgaria Macedonia 4.095 918 Kommentare 757 Mal geteilt


While the territories stayed mostly the same as in the third run, a new mechanic was added: Non-aggression pacts. The odds for this to happen are similarly small as for riots. Still the first of these was singed within the first day of the run between Croatia and Slovenia. Also within the first day of the run, Azerbaijan conquered Armenia, which reminded many of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, which had taken place just a few months prior. Other Notable events included Northern Ireland conquering the Republic of Ireland, Canada conquering the USA, only for it to be conquered by Svalbard and Jan Mayen later and Luxembourg conquering Germany exactly 1 year, 1 month and 1 day after the [Apology] incident. A second Non-aggression Pact was singed later in the run between Antarctica and The Democratic Republic of the Kongo on May 22nd, only to be broken by Antarctica a day later. Meanwhile Luxembourg was nearly defeated but came bay to conquer all of the former Austro-Hungarian territories and Vietnam became a huge empire by the time most other nations were only half it´s size. As many of the big players of the old runs were defeated early on, the fanbase developed new country specific jokes, such as Svalbard and Jan Mayen fighting with polar bears (as opposed to Antarctica, which fights with penguins) or St. Helena being lead by Zombie Napoleon.

The last 10 countries remaining were: Vietnam, Peru, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luxembourg, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Portugal, Estonia, Libya, Pitcairn Islands and Scotland.

The third Non-aggression Pact of the run was created between Vietnam and The Democratic Republic of the Congo, two of the late-game superpowers. It was broken by Vietnam and then later the fourth Non-aggression Pact of the run was also singed between these two and only broken by Vietnam when Congo and them were the last Countries standing.

The Fourth Run was won by Vietnam on June 13th, 2021 by conquering all territories.


WorldWarBot 2020 * Favoriten • 23 Min. July 2121, Vietnam conquered Botswana territory previously occupied by Democratic Republic of the Congo. Democratic Republic of the Congo has been completely defeated. Vietnam has conquered the world. Check the full map at https://worldwarbot.com Vietnam Botswana (Democratic Republic of the Congo) OD 1.822 308 Kommentare • 287 Mal geteilt



Search Interest

External References

[1] Facebook – PortalPosting

[2] Facebook – Notes

[3] Facebook – WorldWarBot's Post

[4] Facebook – CivilWarBot 2020

[5] Facebook – ItaliaGuerraBot 2020

[6] Facebook – Argentina War Bot

[7] Facebook – MyHouse WarBot 2020

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