This a bot for the xkcd forums that runs the game of Mercatores on a forum thread
To use, clone into a new directory and run python3 mercatores.py --setup. It will prompt for a few pieces of information and setup the database. Then run it without any arguments to check the thread for new actions (you may want to schedule this to run regularly).
Note that this is still in development and contains a large number of bugs which may prevent it from working at all.
This requires Python 3, as well as the Python libraries requests, dateutil, and Beautiful Soup 4.
This bot is only designed for and tested on the xkcd forums, though it might be able to work on other forums that use phpBB3.