EQoffline, bots and more..

Magoth78 · #1 08-01-2007, 10:11 PM

Updates:
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For a best challenge, I've done some changes.

1/ Items, stats and buffs became very important criterias for the melee damage output. Better will be the stuff of your bots, better will be the dps. The buffs will seriously augment the DPS of your bots, also.
2/ Spawning bots while engaged (you or your group) isn't allowed anymore.
3/ Spawning the same bot in a zone isn't allowed anymore.
4/ The bot's mana regen has been reworked. Engaged, their mana regen will be slow. Not engaged, it will be very fast.
5/ As asked, the way the bots are following their leader has been reworked. No more bots in front of the leader wich caused targetting issues.

Window's Binaries: http://eqoffline.free.fr/Build.rar
Source's package: http://eqoffline.free.fr/EQEmu-EQOffline.rar

G'day,
Mag

Damilis · #2 08-01-2007, 11:49 PM

/grovel

I bow before thee.

Zengez · #3 08-02-2007, 03:22 AM

Any news on someone making this work into a diff file, or the latest updates to the emu source into a diff file for Magoth.... would be nice to run an updated server with the eqoffline bots, instead of the, now quickly becoming antiqueted, server....

John Adams · #4 08-02-2007, 09:03 AM

Zengez, can't you diff the version Magoth is using against it's original source, and merge the changes into a current version? I don't think Magoth should bump all his changes from version to version just so we stay on the latest... and, I am not sure this will become "core" because it is so very custom (though it could be a nice addition). The problem for over a year has been no one has labeled anything a "stable" version. I personally use the 931 build as an anchor point because it matches the Luclin PEQ database... but even that is not tagged as "stable". No one has gone through and tested every feature to give it that tag in some time.

Maybe when we go Anniversary, we'll branch to 0.8.0 and start all over.

Magoth78 · #5 08-02-2007, 11:20 AM

Little but important update:

1) Each bot has now a real leader who is an unique character. Other characters won't be able to deal with the bots they don't own. Only the bot owner will be able to spawn/group/degroup/equip/unequip his bots.
2) #bot list, will show all the bots. You will can see the tag "(YOUR BOT)" if you own a bot in the list.
3) #bot listmine, will only show your bot.
4) To own a bot, that's simple. Create it, then spawn it. It becomes your bot, definitly. For the bots that you have already created, just spawn them one time, they will become your bot.
5) As asked, DPS casters have been upped a bit (they cast a bit more in fight).

Window's binaries: http://eqoffline.free.fr/Build.rar
Sources: http://eqoffline.free.fr/EQEmu-EQOffline.rar

Database update:
-- Table "botsowners" DDL

CREATE TABLE `botsowners` (
`botnpctypeid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`botleadercharacterid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`botnpctypeid`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

(http://eqoffline.free.fr/README.txt upgraded)

All thoses things need to be tested but they seem to be working well.

Later and good week-end,
Mag

Zengez · #6 08-02-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by John Adams

Zengez, can't you diff the version Magoth is using against it's original source, and merge the changes into a current version? I don't think Magoth should bump all his changes from version to version just so we stay on the latest... and, I am not sure this will become "core" because it is so very custom (though it could be a nice addition). The problem for over a year has been no one has labeled anything a "stable" version. I personally use the 931 build as an anchor point because it matches the Luclin PEQ database... but even that is not tagged as "stable". No one has gone through and tested every feature to give it that tag in some time.

Maybe when we go Anniversary, we'll branch to 0.8.0 and start all over.

Well I for one don't know how to diff, although I think there's a wikki part somewhere that can tell me, but that's not really my point...

Haven't heard anyone say they wouldn't want to use this on their server, and if they didn't it seems to me to be fairly straight foward to just make a rule for bots on and bots off to enable/disable the entire bot structure, then fold it into mainstream... don't even need bot update work done every time magoth does something, just diff it once a week or two weeks of work or whatnot at his discreation (or someone else if they feel like doing it themselves) and that way you can fold in the newest diffed version into the newest server version and life is peachy, best of both worlds... Seems to me that any version released as pre-constructed binaries is 'stable' by any test definition, so I don't see the need to have to wait for someone to lable it stable before doing the above... and I'm not suggesting we update the binaries under download every time anyone makes a change to anything... it's merely been a while, something like 3 months or so between magoth's version with his bot's folded in, and the latest compiled version availible to download under the download section, so I was suggesting an update... wouldn't even have to be a continued update, a one time update would help... Although it seems silly to go that route when building into the mainstream fold seems to be just as easy....

/shrug it's somewhere on the order of a billion degrees in my house right now, so perhaps i'm not thinking straight, but makes sense to me is all.

narcberry · #7 08-03-2007, 09:57 AM

I'm going to implement this on my server. I'm excited to buff up Kurns and do lower level raids

. Really really great work, thanks for spending so much time on this.

Anyhow, I have a question about bot ownership. Let's say that I own 5 bots and someone else owns 5 bots, can we raid together with our bots?

Magoth78 · #8 08-03-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by narcberry

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Anyhow, I have a question about bot ownership. Let's say that I own 5 bots and someone else owns 5 bots, can we raid together with our bots?

You can raid together (1 raid per player) but you can't raid a single raid for both of you.

What you can do is instead of creating a raid of 24 bots bots, just create 2 of 12 bots. Both of you will be the raids leader.

**GeorgeS** · #9 08-04-2007, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by John Adams

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Quote:

Originally Posted by John Adams

Maybe when we go Anniversary, we'll branch to 0.8.0 and start all over.

Now that sounds good - we've been on 0.7 for ages..

Thanks for the continuing work on the offline bots

GeorgeS

Magoth78 · #10 08-04-2007, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by John Adams

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Maybe when we go Anniversary, we'll branch to 0.8.0 and start all over.

If EQEmu ever decides to go on Anniversary, that could be a cool thing because I would rewrite the entire EQoffline code base. This way it would be easier for me to create a separate project that people could add easily to the EQEMu code if they want to play at EQoffline.

John Adams · #11 08-05-2007, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Magoth78

This way it would be easier for me to create a separate project that people could add easily to the EQEMu code if they want to play at EQoffline.

If you mean like a plugin (or maybe like GuildWars was?) that would be perfect. If the code was not so dependent on EQEmu, admins could turn it on and off easily, and it could become a part of the core, too.

There is no question, this is a fantastic add-on to EQEmu.

sonicvt · #12 08-06-2007, 06:35 AM

Is there any issue with the Bot code for if you update (source into MySQL) to a newer version of the PEQ database? Will they still work since the database was modified (create table botinventory, botleader, and botsowners)? I'm not a coder and wouldn't want to source the most recent PEQ database and have all the information (equipment) on the bots be lost. Thanks and great work.