EQoffline, bots and more..

[kraulek]

PS: Also I had a problem at 57 when the Cleric started loading Mark of Karn. She consequently stopped buffing entirely. Once I took that spell out and restarted server, all was well again. So I am not 100% if it was the spell or the restart, however I can tell you that I never had buffing stop before that. Just an FYI

[Congdar]

Here are my latest Source and Binaries of bots using the 1106 EQEmu source.

I have made sweeping changes to bot creation stats. If you have existing bots, they need to be updated using #bot update. Caster bots will not know what to cast if you don't, and melee bots will be weak.

If you are using an existing database, 1104+ sources need database updates, check the changelog.txt

Bots now have AA's. I've coded in some offensive and defensive AA's. Most noticeable will be Finsishing Blow if your bot is of the appropriate level.

Some commands have changed or are new. See #bot help and #bot raid help

I've added raid checks to the group commands for attack, follow and guard. This reduced the number of macro's you needed to edit. You can then redirect individual groups using the #bot raid commands if you need to.

Bots are 'social' now such that if the main target has been killed and an add has come in somewhere, the bots will aid whoever is being attacked.

[kraulek]

Excellent, thanks for the update! The #showstats finally works to count gear and stuff, most excellent! I got it running without any trouble, though I have found a couple issues.

The most major one is that my shaman bot now gets hung up trying to cast buffs. He will get through a few of them, but then will continually be interrupted before he can finish the set. He will keep trying the same one over and over but it never completes. At first I thought it was just Infusion of Spirit (the one he was stuck on at first) though I zoned back to poknowledge and he did get that one complete but got stuck on the next. :( I did not notice any casting interrupt issues during a fight, however.

The other bug I came across is that 2 out of about 15 fights the bots freaked out and started yelling "Shregg is under attack, assisting!" or something to that affect. (Shregg is me on my warrior) This was like 5 times a second at least it seemed like, but other then be pretty funny had no adverse affects that I could tell.

As an FYI, the very first time I did a #bot update on my shaman he was loading the 6 spellset (pre-pet) instead of 518, but after depopping him and zoning he came back with the right set. Just something to watch out for.

Lastly - I have a feature request .... I would love to be able to type something and request a specific buff or spell cast from a bot. Like to have the shaman cast slow on demand, or to refresh Puma/Jaguar mid-fight (since it's a buff he only does it when not engaged but it's only a 1 minute duration). I have no idea if that's possible, or maybe already is using that #ai command like for mez?

Thanks again for everyone's hard work on this addition, they are really fun and I haven't even gotten to the raiding yet!

awesome one question are you going to release the diffs so people can stay up to date on their own as well?

[cubber]

I am trying to update my peq database to 1106 from CVS, the system loaded in fine. But when I go to reload my bots with the bot_npcs.sql script generated by bot_npcs.sh i get the following error:

ERROR 1136 (21S01) at line 25: Column count doesn't match value count at row 1

any ideas how to fix this or do I need to start all my bots from scratch again?

[cavedude]

Add two 0s at the end of the queries in the file. Two new columns were added to npc_types.

[kraulek]

Here is a newly updated Shaman spell set. I ran queries for at least 40-70 to make sure that there was only ever 15 spells trying to load, including the best heal.

As an example, here's the 70 loadout. type 8 is buff, 2 is heal, 1 is slow or debuff, 256 is a dot, and 32 is the pet. I had to sacrifice DD (I have a mage for that) but am otherwise pretty happy with the loadout.

ID:	Name:				Type:
172	Swift Like the Wind		8
278	Spirit of Wolf			8
1588	Turgur's Insects		1
3378	Agility of the Wrulan		8
3380	Cloud of Grummus		1
3386	Malicious Decay			1
3394	Breath of Ultor			256
3395	Malos				1
3396	Blood of Saryrn			256
5389	Farrel's Companion		32
5395	Yoppa's Mending			2
5406	Talisman of Perseverance	8
5415	Talisman of Wunshi		8
5417	Champion			8
6667	Spirit of the Panther		8

SQL code for type 518:

--
-- Dumping data for table `npc_spells_entries`
--
-- WHERE:  npc_spells_id=518

LOCK TABLES `npc_spells_entries` WRITE;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `npc_spells_entries` DISABLE KEYS */;
INSERT INTO `npc_spells_entries` (`id`, `npc_spells_id`, `spellid`, `type`, `minlevel`, `maxlevel`, `manacost`, `recast_delay`, `priority`) VALUES (2662,518,12,2,19,28,-1,-1,1),(2663,518,15,2,29,48,-1,-1,1),(2661,518,17,2,9,18,-1,-1,1),(2647,518,39,8,29,43,-1,-1,90),(2621,518,40,8,1,18,-1,-1,1),(2549,518,75,256,5,18,-1,-1,1),(2530,518,93,1,1,9,-1,-1,1),(2562,518,110,1,19,33,-1,-1,1),(2563,518,111,1,34,48,-1,-1,1),(2666,518,144,2,24,38,-1,-1,1),(2667,518,145,8,39,51,-1,-1,1),(2635,518,146,8,24,28,-1,-1,1),(2622,518,147,8,19,28,-1,-1,1),(2629,518,148,8,19,33,-1,-1,1),(2642,518,149,8,24,33,-1,-1,1),(2623,518,151,8,29,38,-1,-1,1),(2637,518,152,8,39,48,-1,-1,1),(2624,518,153,8,39,48,-1,-1,1),(2644,518,158,8,44,53,-1,-1,1),(2630,518,160,8,34,43,-1,-1,1),(2643,518,161,8,34,43,-1,-1,1),(2576,518,162,1,29,43,-1,-1,1),(2577,518,163,1,44,52,-1,-1,2),(2669,518,164,32,34,38,-1,-1,1),(2671,518,165,32,41,44,-1,-1,1),(2672,518,166,32,49,54,-1,-1,1),(2614,518,167,8,34,9,-1,-1,1),(2615,518,168,8,44,9,-1,-1,1),(2648,518,170,8,44,55,-1,-1,1),(2649,518,171,8,56,62,-1,-1,1),(2650,518,172,8,63,255,-1,-1,1),(2660,518,200,2,1,8,-1,-1,1),(2588,518,201,1,1,38,-1,200,1),(2612,518,225,8,1,23,-1,-1,1),(2610,518,226,8,9,33,-1,-1,1),(2604,518,227,8,14,38,-1,-1,1),(2606,518,228,8,19,43,-1,-1,1),(2590,518,230,4,14,33,-1,-1,1),(2634,518,266,8,1,23,-1,-1,1),(2596,518,267,8,1,4,-1,-1,1),(2628,518,269,8,5,18,-1,-1,1),(2569,518,270,1,5,13,-1,-1,1),(2651,518,271,8,5,13,-1,-1,1),(2597,518,274,8,5,13,-1,-1,1),(2531,518,275,1,5,13,-1,-1,1),(2555,518,277,256,9,23,-1,-1,1),(2659,518,278,8,9,255,-1,-1,1),(2641,518,279,8,9,23,-1,-1,1),(2652,518,280,8,14,18,-1,-1,1),(2575,518,281,1,14,28,-1,-1,1),(2532,518,282,1,14,23,-1,-1,1),(2598,518,283,8,14,23,-1,-1,1),(2653,518,308,8,19,33,-1,-1,1),(2654,518,326,8,34,48,-1,-1,1),(2655,518,337,8,49,58,-1,-1,1),(2636,518,349,8,29,38,-1,-1,1),(2551,518,365,256,19,33,-1,-1,1),(2600,518,431,8,34,43,-1,-1,1),(2556,518,434,256,24,38,-1,-1,1),(2557,518,435,256,39,48,-1,-1,1),(2558,518,436,256,49,55,-1,-1,1),(2538,518,437,1,24,33,-1,-1,1),(2540,518,438,1,39,43,-1,-1,1),(2570,518,505,1,14,28,-1,-1,1),(2571,518,506,1,29,38,-1,-1,1),(2572,518,507,1,39,50,-1,-1,1),(2533,518,508,1,24,33,-1,-1,1),(2534,518,509,1,34,43,-1,-1,1),(2550,518,511,256,19,33,-1,-1,1),(2608,518,524,8,5,28,-1,-1,1),(2579,518,526,1,19,38,-1,-1,1),(2599,518,649,8,24,33,-1,-1,1),(3290,518,1290,2,55,61,-1,-1,1),(2539,518,1427,1,34,43,-1,-1,1),(2541,518,1429,1,44,48,-1,-1,1),(2618,518,1432,8,60,61,-1,-1,1),(2668,518,1568,8,52,60,-1,-1,1),(2673,518,1574,32,55,60,-1,-1,1),(2565,518,1577,1,57,59,-1,-1,2),(2566,518,1578,1,60,62,-1,-1,2),(2632,518,1579,8,53,61,-1,-1,1),(2573,518,1588,1,51,255,-1,-1,1),(2559,518,1590,1,56,59,-1,-1,2),(2553,518,1591,1,59,63,-1,-1,2),(2657,518,1598,8,60,64,-1,-1,1),(2656,518,1599,8,59,59,-1,-1,1),(2560,518,2113,256,60,64,-1,-1,1),(2617,518,2525,8,46,48,-1,-1,1),(2665,518,3233,2,62,67,-1,-1,1),(2619,518,3235,8,62,64,-1,-1,1),(2674,518,3377,32,61,66,-1,-1,1),(2633,518,3378,8,62,255,-1,-1,1),(2587,518,3380,1,61,255,-1,-1,2),(2582,518,3386,1,63,255,-1,-1,2),(2567,518,3387,1,63,64,-1,-1,2),(2554,518,3394,256,64,255,-1,-1,1),(2568,518,3395,1,65,255,-1,-1,2),(2561,518,3396,256,65,255,-1,-1,1),(2620,518,3397,8,65,69,-1,-1,1),(2658,518,3399,8,65,69,-1,-1,1),(3293,518,3433,8,61,68,-1,-1,1),(3292,518,3454,8,49,59,-1,-1,1),(2542,518,3573,1,49,53,-1,-1,2),(3299,518,5389,32,67,255,-1,-1,1),(3300,518,5395,2,68,255,-1,-1,1),(3294,518,5406,8,69,255,-1,-1,0),(3301,518,5415,8,70,255,-1,-1,1),(3298,518,5417,8,70,255,-1,-1,0),(3297,518,6667,8,69,255,-1,-1,0),(3289,518,6877,2,49,54,-1,-1,1),(3295,518,6906,8,50,56,-1,-1,0),(3296,518,6907,8,57,68,-1,-1,0);

[cubber]

After adding the 0's I was able to source my bots back in, thanks. However I ran into one other issue. I compiled the new bot source but when I log into the world and to a #bot spawn or pretty much any #bot command I get the following:

Command 'bot' not recognized.

The 1102 sources worked fine for me. Am I missing something with the new 1106 sources? Before with the 1102 I just needed to compile the zone binary, and move that over to my server folder. I have tried just the 1106 zone file, and I also tried compiling and using the included world and EMUSharemem with the same results. This is on linux.

Thanks

[Congdar]

Originally Posted by mburnett

awesome one question are you going to release the diffs so people can stay up to date on their own as well?

I'm not sure how to do that. I use DiffZilla to merge the bot changes with the latest source. Seems to work fine.

[kraulek]

One thing i have noticed with pet classes (at least Mages and Shaman) are that they tend to waste 2 slots on the same pet summon. I have not found a way to fix that in the database, so I'm guessing it's a bug in some code somewhere? I had thought it was just the shaman but I looked closer at the mage #bot debug spell list and saw that she had loaded an Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water pet ... and a 2nd Fire one.

[Congdar]

Spell lists for the caster bots are next on my list of things to work on. The current spell selections are for NPC's and the bots just kinda hijacked the entires. There has been some discussion on this, so the spell lists I come up with will use thier own database entries instead of the ones created for the NPC's. I have the Cleric done and I'll move down the list from there.

[Jason1983]

Is there a way to cut off the social they are under attack or something? I am putting bots together at times that spam very fastly this social.

[Congdar]

I've seen the repeating text issue. This is because you've told your bots to attack and they don't have line-of-site with the target. Try #bot summon and if you have line of site, then they will too. I think this is what you are asking about, no?

[Congdar]

Here are my latest Source and Binaries of bots using the 1108 EQEmu source.

If you are using an existing database, 1108+ sources need database updates, check the changelog.txt

I fixed the spell interrupted issue with my Ranger so hopefully it fixes everyone elses interrupts too.

Bardbots have suddenly remembered how to play songs.

[RCPD0715]

Hey there, quick observation from my server...I have a gear bot that hands out "cheater gear" and you can use the gear to equip the bots...prior to the last 2 updates, the gear would reflect correctly on the bots, but now for some reason, when I use #bot update it shows for example HP 12322 MANA 11065, but when I use #showstats or #npcstats it shows HP 7907 MANA 8904 and when the bot shows its medding message it shows the mana at 8904...with the gear it should be significantly higher...not sure what changed to make this different..thanks