I just checked in changes to Frivolity's Subversion trunk that will let you write bot factories for any parlor in Perl. All you need to do is run the "volityd" script with a "role" config option set to "factory". It uses the exact same Volity::Bot subclasses that parlors use. See the volityd perldocs to learn all; there is also a new example config file that shows how it works.

This will all be in the next release, version 0.6.8, which will happen soonish. I'm going to make one last new-feature release before version 0.7, which will be the first one to support moneymaking parlors.