EQoffline, bots and more..

[Magoth78]

Hello angelox,

thanks for the idea.

Perl is surely the easiest way to command your bot. But the limitation of it is that you have to target one bot in order to make it doing an action. I'd prefer to have a bot that know what he can do depending of its class and in most situations..

Let's say you're grouped with 5 bots:
1 war, 1 rogue, 1 enchanter, 1 cleric, 1 shaman and you, 1 ranger

You're pulling.
- Once you or one of your bot has the aggro the war will taunt the mob (wich will become the main target of the group).
- The rogue(bot) will go behind it and start the dps.
- The enchanter(bot) will wait to see if any other mob aggro you or one of your bot. If so, he will mez it and keep it mezzed till the first mob dies. While the add is mezzed, he will cast some DD on the main target.
- The cleric(bot) will check the HPs of the group.
- The shaman(bot) will debuff the mob (debuff+dots), will check the buffs of the groups in fight.
- and you... you do what you want to

In the actual state, Perl doesn't permit me to automatize all theses tasks. But I could use it to start a particular AI on a given bot. For example, if I have 2 healers in group, I could set the main and the second healer or 1 bot will be healing and the second one will make dps...

Good day,
Mag

[Angelox]

There are at least two client programs that I know of that will do that. One is Xylobot - I used it before and worked very well.

[Magoth78]

Yes Xylo and MQ probably do the thing but client wise...

I will try to code that so it's server wise and only for the bots (mobs). As I've mentionned earlier the bots are mobs, not clients.

And that will make the work harder

This would be useful for a lot of different things, a quest for a perma body guard, a quest where you have to help an NPC with a kill... etc etc.

I could see uses for this even on the legit servers.

[Magoth78]

Ok, I've added a bot inventory.

Each bot has 21 slots in their inventory just like a Client.

Once an item is added to their inventory, their stats are updated immediatly. (The client will have to zone in order to see the stats changes on his bot with #showstats but it's just a visual issue.)

Now, let's take an example:
- You loot on a mob a helm. The stats on the helm are +10ac +5str ...
- You give the item to the bot and the stats will be actual_ac=actual_ac+10, actual_str=str+5, etc...

For the moment, there is no check on the slot that can wear the item but I'm planning to add it.

[tornar]

Hi magoth78, i have to say that it looks a nice idea, it would be great to have bots available for hire.

[Magoth78]

Hello there,

I also like the idea a lot and that's why I've officially started to work on this project some days ago.

At the moment, I'm working on the bots inventory.

What I've made so far is :

- You loot an item
- You give it to a bot of your choice. If its race/class can equip the item, it places the loot in its inventory (in the right slot) and then, it equips this item. If it has already an item in the same slot, the old item will be remplaced by the new one.
Once the item is in the bot's inventory, the bots stats will change immediatly depending of the item stats.

I will also make the bots showing them wearing the stuffs they have in their personnal inventory.

g'nite,
Mag