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Moving targets


I have the following problem while botting a melee character:

On moving targets, the bot walks in a straight line to the spot where the target was when he started to move. Since it's a moving target, the mob is out of range when the bot has arrived.
Is there a way the bot will follow the targetted mob while running towards it, and not run in a straight line to the destination he saw the mob when he started ?

Hey RIch, I tried adding the Call to the FacetoLoc, but its still exiting the script..

heres how to reproduce it:

Place a mob you can attack behind you out of view.
Start the script but make sure there are no mobs in your range for you to target. It seems it find the mob behind me, and as soon as it tried to face the mob, the script stops.

Ok I got this working last night and WOW, WAY COOL! I do have some problems I can't seem to get ironed out.

I am using a Inquis. in Buffbot only mode and having him follow around my necro. I send in the pet and Inquis. goes into fight mode (auto attack) and casts heals and dmg. spells at targeted mob. This looks goofy as hell because the Inquis. is following my Necro in attack mode so I have to jocky around to get him next to the mob. to attack it. I would rather the Inquis. not be in attack mode (auto attack) as he looks guilty as hell (atleast in Buffbot only mode).

The other problem is how do you get the botted char. to accept smds from me? I modified the request (per instructions) and set them on hotbuttons but nothing is happening. I have tried dending them in /tell and in /gsay but he won't respond and there are no errors in the log.

Anyway I had a blast last night with both my toons, CL's will never be the same! Thanks for a great script.

P.S.

I love the comments this thing makes in tells, freaked me out the first few times!

Ok got him to take cmds (I was missing the case sen. part) but when I tell him to stand down he stops nuking as well as autoattack. I am just wanting to stop autoattack since I really don't need him to melee. Should I maybe just not assign a autoattack key?

Did you ever check out this problem with it not reading all the people in group when there is a pet class in group? I had this happen again tonight, this time with a conjuror so it's definately something with the summoner classes. When the conjuror was the 3rd person listed in the group, it listed everyone but the person in the last spot, and then listed the pet on the line below.

I disbanded the conjuror and reinvited him to put him into the last(was the 5th person in group so in the 4th) slot, and it listed everyone but the conjuror and his pet. I hit the button to refresh it finding masters and stuff, but it wouldn't pick the conjuror or his pet up in that slot.

Another problem I encountered with it finding group members was when everyone(full group of 6) but one person zoned to a new zone. The person who didn't zone in was in the 3rd spot(greyed out). When the bot looked for the masters again, it only saw the people listed before the person who didn't zone. The 2 people past the greyed out one weren't listed.

Hope this info helps.

Great Script!

Here are some suggestions on fixing the current problems:

typing precombat buffs into the chat bar --- this is caused due to trying to loot a simple way to get by that is just send ESC after hitting enter


Too far away from char -- do this (pulled out my !@#$%^&* but logic should work)


Instead of



do



I don't know VBS very well but in theory that should work...

my main problem is RunToLoc() is borked, it's saying that the X & Y values returned were 0 so something is wrong... My bot will do everything except run to targets or even to points when not set to SAMESPOT (which causes some of the nasty bugs that were described above this post).

Hopefully this has been fixed because otherwise, this is a great script, I'd hate to see it become unmaintained.

Yes please sirusdv, do post your fixes.

This is a great script, and having 3 EQ2 accounts, I got my third Xunleashed account last week. You have to spend time on tuning your character.ini files, but it's running pretty smooth now.

However, after hours and hours of running and finetuning, there are 4 things that cause death of your character, or get you stuck:

- tabbing on mobs out of range and getting stuck at the corner of the huntingzone
- being out of range when you arrive at a moving target
- getting jumped because of aggro while bot is tabbing harvest nodes or out of range mobs. He keeps targeting what he was last on, and doesn't select his attacker when jumped. When he is focused on a mob that is in range he pulls that one as well when jumped, so he has to fight 2 mobs. Most of the time this is ok, but trying to attack 'plains_fungi_001' while getting eaten by a hungry lion leads to a certain death.
- as a fighterbot, when your buffbot-partner gets jumped by an add in the middle of a fight, that mob is usually out of melee range once the main target is killed. Debuffbot has been slowing and dotting the add and built a lot of aggro before fighterbot tries to attack the add after killing his own target. Combat abilities have a bigger range, but if takes a lot of time before he overtakes aggro and pulls the mob in melee range. A lot of time is lost here, and if it doesn't kill buffbot, he is completely drained of power from healing himself after such a fight. A way to move the bot closer to an out of range mob he is fighting, while in combat, would solve this.

In buff bot mode if you are running and the bot gets attacked but you want to just out run the mob it mess's up the script if you don't kill the mob. It wants to stay in attack mode and if you manually tell him to stop attacking the next fight your in he will not automatically start fighting.

I am unable to get my char to run to any location. It merely tabs through everything over and over. The only thing I've found in the logs, sometimes, is the following:
6/27/2005 10:20:33 PM: ERROR: X & Y are 0 - something is wrong, skipping RunToLoc()

I hope these are relevant portions of the .ini.
CharRole=OFFENSIVE
RandomRunMode=CLOSESTSCON
RandomRunRange=10

It does mention that it finds something to fight, but never reacts to it.

6/27/2005 10:01:57 PM: ** GetCon() Mob: [an undead caretaker] Lvl: 25 conColor: GREEN Fight based on color? True
6/27/2005 10:01:57 PM: Target to FIGHT Found

I can include more of my logs, but I didn't want to flood here if I didn't need to. In this run, the ERROR above was the only one found.

Thanks!