Enabling Mercs?

[BigBlueWizard]

Hey Gothmonk! Don't know if you still need help, but I finally figured out how to get bots working after some digging / research and help from Uleat and Kaless59 via PMs.

First off, bots aren't currently set up with Akka's installer (which is amazing! btw), so you have to recompile the binaries / source and copy / paste them over the current ones in your eqemu folder. Basically, I had to follow a few pieces of the guide from here http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Complet...Guide&frm=Main

Follow the steps to download the Git program, Visual Studios, and CMake. Then follow the steps about creating a folder called source and go from there until it discusses copying the files over. I didn't copy all of the ones listed, because I didn't want to overwrite my quests / maps / logs, etc... but almost all the others I did. After that you're done with following that guide.

Then you'll need to go to https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob...09_30_bots.sql and source that into your db.

Afterward, you'll need to add this in your db via query

ALTER TABLE db_version ADD bots_version int(11) DEFAULT '0' AFTER version;


Then change the value from 0 to 9007

Then run Eqemu_update program in your folder and hit #4.

After that, you should be good to go!

[gothmonk]

Originally Posted by BigBlueWizard

Hey Gothmonk! Don't know if you still need help, but I finally figured out how to get bots working after some digging / research and help from Uleat and Kaless59 via PMs.

First off, bots aren't currently set up with Akka's installer (which is amazing! btw), so you have to recompile the binaries / source and copy / paste them over the current ones in your eqemu folder. Basically, I had to follow a few pieces of the guide from here http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Complet...Guide&frm=Main

Follow the steps to download the Git program, Visual Studios, and CMake. Then follow the steps about creating a folder called source and go from there until it discusses copying the files over. I didn't copy all of the ones listed, because I didn't want to overwrite my quests / maps / logs, etc... but almost all the others I did. After that you're done with following that guide.

Then you'll need to go to https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob...09_30_bots.sql and source that into your db.

Afterward, you'll need to add this in your db via query

ALTER TABLE db_version ADD bots_version int(11) DEFAULT '0' AFTER version;


Then change the value from 0 to 9007

Then run Eqemu_update program in your folder and hit #4.

After that, you should be good to go!

Cool, thank you. I will try it when I get an opportunity. I gathered that you can't use the Akka installer.. I didn't realize I could just re-compile the binaries and use my existing DB (i.e. no player wipe for me). I will try out that process & let you know if I get stuck.

[BigBlueWizard]

Yeah, Np. I was worried about that too, as I had already spawned some npcs, made some quests, created characters... etc.

And yeah, feel free to reply here if you get stuck!