The Hidden Forest

Last night I got a few upgrades so I wanted to put my hand-me-downs on my bot ... benefits of being a cleric with a cleric bot!! I gave him 3 pieces of Ssra/ToV gear with level 70 req's to replace some of his crushbone and guk armor. Overall he lost 400 mana when he should have gained 1000+.

I'm thinking that the code in place to keep bots from using higher level req equipment (ex ... level 35 bot using level 40 req armor results in the bot not using them) might be something like level 70 exclusive rather than inclusive (depending on how you word it, it could be the other way too).

My hypothesis is that also a bot using a piece of equipment at the same as the level req is not allowed. For example ... using a Chaotic Thick Banded Belt on a level 40 bot will not give stat changes until he turns 41.

Can anyone confirm/deny this or should I go farm some other equipment?

Only Striat could confirm this, but I'm not sure he is around on the board nowadays.

yep havent realy updated Medic (cleric bot ) for awhile now but yes there is some kind of gear issue i recall giving him a ring or two awhile back that was like a total of 300 more mana and he lost almost 400 mana so i swapped it back not really sure of the items but it had to be seb/solbl rings being upgraded to ssra/kael at the time. oh and i saw striat on a few days ago.

I had a big exam and have been away. You are correct about the level requirement. Bots are unable to receive benefits from gear higher than their level. Probably used a less than or equal to rather than simply a less than. I'll work on getting that stuff fixed up soon. Previously, was trying to get us a repository set up so some things got left behind and some of this may have gotten neglected on my end.

No worries strait, I figured things were busy for you IRL and I hope you did well on your exam! We're easily doing well without the changes so it isn't too big of a deal since most level 70 stuff is from ToV and you pretty much need a player run cleric there, but of course it would be nice when time permits

Thanks for taking the time!

Hi Striat,

When you and I chatted the other day you mentioned a couple of things, but I don't see them as active.

** First, to stay on topic here ... you mentioned that level 70 req equipment should work now, it doesn't (checked with arms piece ... same amount of mana when nothing there and when something is there).

** Second, you mentioned a lower bot timer, but it is still 180 seconds. Also the timer is still active in THF. The bot exploit you mentioned is fixed (tested).

I could have misunderstood and maybe they were planned changes or those being discussed?

Koeril wrote:Hi Striat,

** First, to stay on topic here ... you mentioned that level 70 req equipment should work now, it doesn't (checked with arms piece ... same amount of mana when nothing there and when something is there).

** Second, you mentioned a lower bot timer, but it is still 180 seconds. Also the timer is still active in THF. The bot exploit you mentioned is fixed (tested).

Fixes are not live on THF atm, but they are in and will be soon.

Oh I see what you were saying now, I thought you were saying that it was just the patch notes which didn't get in before the reboot.

Got it and I apologize for the misunderstanding. Thank you, sir, for your continued good work!