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Twister
ZombieThrasher

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ppl complain about lag all the time and complain even more when they die and blame it on lag.. but silver is cool and prolly wont do it again and yet you still flame on..

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DeathMerchant
UberSloth

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Wow!

Sorry for reviving this thread...

I'm split...on one hand, I like killing gohorts, yet Silvers lag explanation is perfectly logical. If it was me, I'd just go back and kill more sloths.

Now, more importantly, about the casting blade, it considers all spells... This means, a wizard considers casting drift, or so I've heard... It makes the call based on a random number, casting time, damage, etc, and makes a decision. It does this each time the casting blade swings, regardless of whether the recovery time has passed. If we could somehow recode it(dunno how, but it's an idea) to cast a random spell once the recov time for a previous spell is completed, that would get rid of most lag....

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Twister
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hand me notepad and lets go..

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UberSloth

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hmmm...I probably made a mistake....oh wait, I haven't actually looked at the casting blade in ages. It's probably changed during one of those versions....

I wonder, could you simply make it a random cast?

Random number(if higher than spell bot can cast, --random number, check again)

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Twister
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nah.. i looked over the code and casting blade picks a spell from random with this line of code. %index = GetBestSpell(%clientId, 1, True);... then it goes through abit about AI and stuff then comes to this witch casts the spell remoteSay(%clientId, 0, "#cast " @ $Spell::keyword[%index]);.. the spell is determend by the %index... but #cast or #spell goes through some checks before starting the whole spell process... it checks for if you are currently casting, or recovering, or sleeping or dead.. now all of those have to return true before the whole casting process begins by going through all the spells like you so pointed out.. so in fact it seems you are wrong DM in this case..

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but we can prolly greatly reduce lag if we took out the, you tried to hit blah but missed!

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also maybe if we added in that delete the bots that are in zones where no one is around

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UberSloth

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quote:
Originally posted by Twister
%index = GetBestSpell(%clientId, 1, True);... then it goes through abit about AI and stuff then comes to this witch casts the spell remoteSay(%clientId, 0, "#cast " @ $Spell::keyword[%index]);.. the spell is determend by the %index... but #cast or #spell goes through some checks before starting the whole spell process... it checks for if you are currently casting, or recovering, or sleeping or dead..


Want to post the whole thing? I'll see if I can hack some crap out. Odds are though, that the bots'll act somewhat differently after I get done. One thing you'll notice from the current casting blade is that it will almost never cast beam...

I want to make it strictly random, so that a bot will randomly cast any spell he is able to... This means a gohort has an equal chance of casting thorn, beam, rift, or whatever... should add some uncertainty.

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quote:
Originally posted by Twister
also maybe if we added in that delete the bots that are in zones where no one is around


Its an option in RPGServ


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Twister
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umm solar.. that option is to not spawn bots when ppl arnt in the zones.. not delete them..

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UberSloth

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Twisters right...and B & N has it checked, arenas off, etc. all the things that could cause lag are set to "lag-free".

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Twister
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well all things that are there to check are checked for lag free.. but we could always create more options to reduce lag.. just have to figure out what..

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Well youd have to make sure they dont drop packs then everyone would keep going in and out of zones getting Dscales etc...


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Twister
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then you would have the problem someone dying by a bot and bot takes there stuff... and dies with it..

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well then were stuck =/


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solar what'd u use for ur sig


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ZombieMauler

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My Lord... WTF ppl, like Cloud said Silverhorse is admin, if he chose to close off the Gohorts for ANY reason that should be good enough for you, expecially when he gave a time frame as to when it would be open again.. On the other note of this thread, LAG it's there and it will be a part of the server for a while only about a week left till I am (hopefully) able to host the server again but I'm not sure what differences there will be with it in this area, the substation may be farther away than at my last place, but when I get the server up and running here again you can be sure that I'll be taking every step to get the server back in as close to lag free as possible, at least to the point of where it was before the move so hold on for a lil while longer and we'll see what comes up, untill then stay cool

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Thats right, stay cool or i shall MOOGLE YOU ALL!! YOU ALL SHALL BE MY MOOGLED SLAVES! BWAHAHAHAHA! Kill ubers, bring claymores and D-scales! BWAHAHAHAaaaa....


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Twister
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hate to break out again but me and silver found faults in both of us already and made up... but anyhow it lags now, always been that way and dun know how your gunna change it =/ unless you upgrade alot =p...

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If youre far away from the CO Newbie uploads are going to suck =/ Hopefully youll get decent ones though. If not, and Apache is unable to keep the server up, I would be glad to host it dedicated, as it is on a seperate machine I use solely as a server.


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dun worry newbie can do it..

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Cool...


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Deus_ex_Machina
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Try this function.... just backup the old function
Find this in weapons.cs


function CastingBladeImage::onFire( %player, %slot )
{
%clientId = Player::getClient(%player);

if(%clientId == "")
%clientId = 0;

if(fetchData(%ClientId, "SpellCastStep") == 1) {
if(OddsAre(3))
MeleeAttack(%player, GetRange(Hatchet), CastingBlade);
return;
}
if(fetchData(%TrueClientId, "SpellCastStep") == 2) {
if(OddsAre(3))
MeleeAttack(%player, GetRange(Hatchet), CastingBlade);
return;
}

%index = GetBestSpell(%clientId, 1, True);

%length = $Spell::LOSrange[%index]-1;

$los::object = "";
if(GameBase::getLOSinfo( %player, %length ) && %index != -1)
{
%obj = getObjectType($los::object);
if(%obj == "Player")
{
if(Player::isAiControlled( %clientId ))
{
AI::newDirectiveRemove( fetchData(%clientId, "BotInfoAiName"), 99);
}
remoteSay(%clientId, 0, "#cast " @ $Spell::keyword[%index]);
%hasCast = True;
}
}
if(!%hasCast)
{
if(OddsAre(3))
MeleeAttack(%player, GetRange(Hatchet), CastingBlade); //mimic the hatchet range
}
%hasCast = "";
}

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if your going to make it so bots are deleted when a player leaves a zone set a time limit to it so like 30 minues after a player leaves a zone all bots in the zone are deleted or somethin like that. that would prevent ppl from just running away from strong bots to get them killed or just doing that to grab their pack.

just my ideas...


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Um, I see problem... you are happily soloing in uber at 4 am as a newly remorted lowbie. You hop around the corner to trap a sloth, and come face to face with a loose gohort...BAM

You respawn, and realize that, since the zone is empty, all bots inside have been deleted. Unfortunately, one of the Ubers appears to have taken our pack with him...a kill would be better.

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Twister
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I have already stated that DM

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yeah, but if the bot is #kill'ed instead of #delbot'ed, he drops a pack....

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Twister
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well #1 bots dont have admin powers so no #kill or #delbot is gunna happen...

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Im assuming that an admin would set this script up...

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script??? for the admin?? well then how is the admin gunna figure out the bots name client side...

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