Account BOTs vs. Character-specific BOTs

[James95841]

I was wondering whether it might be possible/desirable to make bots we create available to any character we have in our account. I can't tell you how many bots I've created because they are character-specific, and it's very time-consuming to create them, think of new names, deck them out, etc.

Thank you for your wonderful server - I am having a blast!

[Milein]

The problem with that is if you made and decked out a bot for a level 70 character and started a level 1 character and popped that bot then it would be over powered for a level 1. In addition to that if you gave a nice no trade item to your bot on one character and popped the bot on another character that opens an exploit to trade no drop items.

[Lillu]

yep, exactly. It's been like that, and been changed to like what we have now for this obvious reason.

[James95841]

Okay, thought it might have something to do with a means to swap no-drops, etc. I guess it could be programmed to not be able to get items back from bots, but only to be able to delete items on them, however that wouldn't address the problem with a level 70 bot being used by a lvl1 character. But thank you for your quick response and consideration. If you can think of a compromise, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

[striat]

Okay, thought it might have something to do with a means to swap no-drops, etc. I guess it could be programmed to not be able to get items back from bots, but only to be able to delete items on them, however that wouldn't address the problem with a level 70 bot being used by a lvl1 character. But thank you for your quick response and consideration. If you can think of a compromise, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

The 70 bot wasn't really an issue. I mean, it's np to have level generated upon spawn based on player. In addition, stats could be ignored/not equipped if bot is not high enough to equip it. However, we chose the direction we did because it was the best fit. It still is in numerous aspects including privacy issues.

No current changes are being considered. If they were, the issues would be low on our focus list (which is a rather long list!). Even changes to bot functionality is no longer being developed other than correcting some general bot bugs. Other bugs including BotAI are currently being ignored, and no one is really interested in looking into those issues to be honest.

Sorry the news could not be more to your liking, but thanks for the feedback!