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curious - bot commands

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:44 pm
by goodthink
I have played with the bot system extensively and I know class specific commands are available and IIRC you have added some recently.

What I am wondering if it is possible to have a #bot slow <level> command, so someone can tell their shammy bot to use turgurs or tirgirs or nhil for example ie., #slow slow 51

In addition, many people have reported the cleric bot being inefficient with heals and the shaman bot seems to stop healing around 58. I was thinking something a long the lines of #bot heal <1,2,3> could go a long way in helping the problem. In this case the variables 1,2,3 represent the best of 3 types of heals. 1 would equate to a hot (celestial healing/torpor), 2 would be a direct heal (Superior healing/Krag's mending) and 3 would be a CH. Typical use would be #bot group order heal1 or #bot heal 2, etc.

This would put the cleric/pal/druid/shm bots on par with mages and chanters (pet selection and runes and mez).

In addition, for the classes who can heal endurance pools (they never cast it from my experience) would it be possible to have a command to force those classes or one (say shaman) to throw out a endurance heal?

I am not sure how robust the ui is in this regard.

Re: curious - bot commands

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:49 pm
by Jeido
Endurance heals such as extinguish fatigue don't work anymore. Once stamina was swapped out for endurance and you used it for more than just jumping, that was removed. As for the bots, well i'll let the dev's handle that but usually bot suggestions are directed to the eqemu forum since that's where all the bot work is done :)

Re: curious - bot commands

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:13 am
by striat
Jeido wrote:As for the bots, well i'll let the dev's handle that but usually bot suggestions are directed to the eqemu forum since that's where all the bot work is done :)


I'm offended ;)

We're capable and I can promise you some of us (well actually probably only me :lol: ) like the idea of a solid bot system.

That said, I think of the things you mentioned is against the ideal direction. If others felt that was the correct direction to go, I surely would implement something like that.

However, I feel many of these commands really need to be eliminated and botAI needs some work. It is not a 30 minute job though. So, adding more commands is not ideal imo. The only thing I may would want to add would be a #bot setmode <attack/utility/dps> or something similar to that which would dictate AI. Again, not sure if that is the best route either. But, I'll look into BotAI when I get the itch;p Just don't expect it to be a 24 hour adjustment.