Bot spawn timer?
 

Hi fellas - quick question. I've been reading and searching to see if it's posted but cannot find. Closest thing I can find is in this thread:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...ght=bots+timer

Is there a way to set bots to have a respawn timer after they die or are camped out? I'm trying to minimize exploits with bots - so that if someone's bot dies during combat, etc they'd have to wait 3-5 min before spawning a new one.

Thanks in advance!

Baruuk

I too hope bot spawn timers get worked into the code, i believe it would be a good penalty for bot death. Any chance this will ever see the light of day?

No one knows how to limit bot respawn time? That really surprises me.

There doesn't appear to be any code in the existing version to do this. Hard to tell you how to enable something that doesn't exist.

Fair enough - thanks!

what specific exploit are your trying to fix?
How about just making it so you can't spawn bots while you have aggro?

I think the point is that you can kill your bots then just respawn them for full hp/mana. I believe you are already unable to spawn bots when you have agro.

On live, there's a respawn timer of 5 minutes if merc died to a mob or if I put it away.

In rev 2087, I added rez effects so that if a bot dies, its at 20% hp and 0 mana and no buffs. This is a significant penalty and matches clients. Let me know if this suffices or if more should be done. Also, bots can no longer be resummoned with full health - they retain their hp and mana when zoning, camping, etc.