Chat/tell message timeouts.
 

So basically I setup a server at home on a LAN so my girlfriend and I could play EQ together since she's never played and loves RPG's.

In order for us to play and have a "group", I use MQ2 and dual-bot on my machine giving us three characters instead of just two. Mainly I do that because I don't like the built-in bots and don't want to just play a healer.

The problem I'm having relates to sending /tells. I use tells to communicate with the bot character and tell it to attack, etc. With the default server, it keeps blocking my tells after a few sends and giving me a timeout before I can send another tell.

I have searched and searched and for the life of me can't find where this timeout rate is stored. If anybody knows where I can find that setting, I would great appreciate it. Thanks!

I am not sure, but my guess would be it is karma related in the rule_values table.

Based on looking at the source code, it seems to be related to the player's status rather than karma and some rule sets. However, I still have not found any references to setting the level allowed for the anti-spam (which is what is causing the problem)

Since I'm running a private little LAN server, I just bumped the account status levels up to 10 and that effectively seems to have eliminated the problem. Thanks for your help trevius, it is appreciated! :)

Use the following sql to manipulate the karma\antispam rule values.

update rule_values set rule_value = 'false' where rule_name = 'Chat:EnableAntiSpam';
update rule_values set rule_value = 10 where rule_name = 'Chat:GlobalChatLevelLimit';
update rule_values set rule_value = 720 where rule_name = 'Chat:KarmaGlobalChatLimit';
update rule_values set rule_value = 200 where rule_name = 'Chat:MinStatusToBypassAntiSpam';

Thanks, had similiar issues which are now fixed. *cheer*