EQoffline, bots and more..

[cubber]

Thats how I thought the line read thanks cavedude! So basically the only thing I need to compile after downloading the 1102 source linked above is zone. Since I already have a 1102 eqemu server running.

[cavedude]

Yep, that's it.

[cubber]

Thanks for the help. I was able to play around with the bot system last night and had a blast. The system is amazing!

I did notice that I had to zone before my bots would cast any spells over level 1, and I also had random game client crashes when using the bots system that I never experienced using the regular 1102 server. My client just froze up 3 times in about a 4 hour time frame. In different zones, all when using the bots. I was able to open task manager and kill the client which was labeled "not responding", then restart the client and log back into the server. Looking at the server's built in web interface it looks like 1 of my 5 dynamic zones restarted, it has a start count of 2.

The zones I experienced the crashes in were, Plane of Knowledge, HateplaneB, and Plane of Growth. Those were pretty much the only zones I visited too. The crashes happened on 2 different characters running different bots. 2 happened when the bots were casting and in combat, the other happened when I was spawning a bot, but the other bots were also buffing.

However, I had so much fun using the bot system that the crashes didn't really even bother me that much.

[Congdar]

The original design was for solo play with the bots. I think there are likely issues with two pc's in the same zone running bots at the same time, however it seems to work great for filling the last slots when single grouping with friends.

[cubber]

I was only running 1 pc with a full group of bots. When I said 2 characters I meant that at one point I switched to another character and created a new set of bots.

[Congdar]

hmm, I was in plane of mischief all night and didn't have any problems with locking up. Are you using my sources or some other? I think there are two or three versions around. That's not to say there aren't multitudes of issues with the bots but they are quite a bit more stable than before. If you could remember exactly what you were doing maybe I could debug a little bit in that area.

[cubber]

I was using your 1102 sources on a gentoo linux server and running the titanium client on windows xp. Like I said it seems to be random when the bots cast a spell. I am not sure if its a cleric bot or enchanter bot that keeps hosing me. I will have to do more testing and pay more attention to whats happening before the crashes.

The bots I had up were: enchanter, cleric, shaman, necro, monk. I gave them all their epics to start then went hunting to gear them up after that. Most of them are still pretty naked.

I also noticed that the chanter bots don't cast any kind of mana buffs and have a hard time with mezzing adds, even when I use the #bot ai mez command. I don't ever see any haste being casted either. But that all probably has to do with the spell table in the database.