Of course you can try it, but I think you won't do better than me, since you have the ViceCíty project and your "real life"
If you coped with that strange language you will be able to cope with C++... don't be shocked because it's C++, it's not much harder... some things are difficult because there are symbols used instead of words... but that's a thing you can learn while time passes...
Actually the point is: Don't mind your programming in C++... Imagine it's "POD-Bot-Programming-Language" or something like that. If you look at two different C++ programs you could easily think that are two different programming languages. On the first sight. At the second you will see the characteristics such as the { brackets } and the funny && and such things.
Because of that the book "how to learn C++ in 21 days" (there is a german translation of it in our city's library) would not be very helpful. You will of course learn the basics of C++ but the book is about programming some tiny windows software and not a DLL for some ego shooter.
If you do not use VC++ it will be quite hard to compile it, because POD-Bot is written with VC++. But it's not impossible, you should be able to compile it with almost every C++ Compiler (which supports Windows DLL), you just have to know how to do it.
Anybody else who has interest?
I noticed that E[POD]bot IIIa does not show many bugs anymore, but it's just weak. They can use snipers properly, but a friend of mine got stats of 20:3 after 6 rounds. He was alone in a team of bots fighting against a team of bots-only with equal size. The bots are equal enemies for me, because I very seldom play CS now... But after 30 minutes I also can beat them high.
The most important thing is to get it tougher. It sounds easier as it is, because I tried hard to get the bots better but it did not work well. Okay, there are some possibilites to get them better, but this would bring some bugs back or let them act very inhuman like fragging machines.The ultraskill mode with skills up to 200 does not improve the skill of them much... They are a little better, perhaps 20 percent. but not twice as good.
Somebody else who wants to keep E[POD]bot alive?
[ The third possibility I figured out today, if nobody will continue E[POD]bot is to give the source code to the developers of yaPB and mmPOD, so they can use it to improve their bots. But that would be a sad end for a glorious bot. ]