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Old 09-26-2011, 10:31 AM
Baruuk
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Default Bot spawn timer?

Hi fellas - quick question. I've been reading and searching to see if it's posted but cannot find. Closest thing I can find is in this thread:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...ght=bots+timer

Is there a way to set bots to have a respawn timer after they die or are camped out? I'm trying to minimize exploits with bots - so that if someone's bot dies during combat, etc they'd have to wait 3-5 min before spawning a new one.

Thanks in advance!

Baruuk
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Old 09-26-2011, 04:55 PM
louis1016
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I too hope bot spawn timers get worked into the code, i believe it would be a good penalty for bot death. Any chance this will ever see the light of day?
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Old 09-26-2011, 08:53 PM
Baruuk
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No one knows how to limit bot respawn time? That really surprises me.
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Old 09-26-2011, 10:13 PM
lerxst2112
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There doesn't appear to be any code in the existing version to do this. Hard to tell you how to enable something that doesn't exist.
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Old 09-26-2011, 10:18 PM
Baruuk
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Fair enough - thanks!
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Old 09-27-2011, 11:06 AM
Congdar
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what specific exploit are your trying to fix?
How about just making it so you can't spawn bots while you have aggro?

Code:
	if(!strcasecmp(sep->arg[1], "spawn") ) {
		if(c->GetAggroCount() > 0) {
			c->Message(0, "You can't spawn bots while you have aggro.");
			return;
		}
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Old 09-27-2011, 09:16 PM
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pfyon
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I think the point is that you can kill your bots then just respawn them for full hp/mana. I believe you are already unable to spawn bots when you have agro.
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Old 09-27-2011, 09:49 PM
Robregen
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On live, there's a respawn timer of 5 minutes if merc died to a mob or if I put it away.
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Old 12-07-2011, 12:26 PM
bad_captain
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In rev 2087, I added rez effects so that if a bot dies, its at 20% hp and 0 mana and no buffs. This is a significant penalty and matches clients. Let me know if this suffices or if more should be done. Also, bots can no longer be resummoned with full health - they retain their hp and mana when zoning, camping, etc.
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