I'm not sure where this really goes. It's not a "REAL" EverQuest thing. But it's a request that would imo work quite nicely if we could get together some programmers who could work this out.
First off, i'm going to give an example. On image's guildwar server. The town people who were level 65, they were NPCs. Yet they showed up on the /who list.
If you could create a script with npcs who were interactive.. you could add some liveness to your server.
Say theres a file in a folder called bots.. and some other files.
[ c:\eqemu\bots.exe ]
[ c:\eqemu\bots\ ]
[ c:\eqemu\bots\bot1.cfg ]
[ c:\eqemu\bots\bot2.cfg ]
[ c:\eqemu\bots\random.bat ]
The bots.exe would basically be an additional file to the world.exe minilogin.exe it'd have all the info for the bots going.
The bot*.cfg would hold one of the bots info.. I'm guessing they would be like.. 10kb big? So having like 100 of them wouldn't be a problem.
This is what it would look like:
--------------------------------------------------------------
[Bot]
Name=Bot
Lastname=Test
Level=60
Class=1
Race=1
Guild=1
Zone=1
[Equipment]
Earring=item#
Neck=item#
Head=item#
Earring2=item#
--------------------------------------------------------------
And you could go into more detail. But here you say.. WTF this would take forever.
So a [ c:\eqemu\bots\random.bat ] would be made. It could prompt you how many do you want it to create, and it could randomly generate all the bot files and a mysql file to update your db.
I guess it'd have to work with your database to check equipment.. and see if its compatible with race/class/level/slot.
This idea is very vague.. I just look at it as a way for servers to have more interactivity. You could create random chat files. You could make commands so you control them. You could make it so they group with you. You could make it so they go into chat room. You could guild with them. You could trade with them. They could walk around zones killing things, dying.. trying to get a rez for their corpses.
I know all of this would take a REALLY long time, not really long, just a lot of time.
If anyone is willing to help me, I really want to create this.
Please post your comments on this, and tell me how much of a loser I am to want to play with bots!
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