Increase group size

[lordnivek1]

I have been looking for a way to increase the group size on my server to more them the standard 6. Is this possible? I did several searches on the forums and couldn’t find an answer to this. (which means since I put that last sentence someone will post a link to a post answering the question making me look like a noob lol) Thank you for any help in advance.

[Kingly_Krab]

You can try looking at the GitHUB, here's a link to a search. It's set in the <Expansion>_structs.h, so just look there, be cautious when modify structs though.

[lordnivek1]

Awesome thank you. That should get me pointed in the right direction.

[steve007]

hi Lord

Are you looking to increase group size for players or Players & Bots?

With Bots: You can add as many additional groups of upto 6 to work in a support function, (As if they were in the same group)

Without Bots: the simple route is a raid, and increase the server EXP to emulate that of a standard group...

I just try find the simplist route to a solution

[Uleat]

I believe the client is hard-coded for 6 slots per group.

If you take a look at your group window ui file, you'll see that each group of object labels only enumerate to 5.
(Still valid as of current Steam download.)

With you, the local client, the total is 6.

There's no* way to tell the client to increase the number of members per group.


If you try to manipulate the structure to force additional player information, you'll only corrupt the data being sent to the client.
(Any group member information that appears after the last 'legal' member will replace what the client is expecting at that offset.)

This could result in any number of non-supportable bugs and client crashes.


EDIT: Can the server support more than 6 members per group? Yes... Will the client allow it? No...

[lordnivek1]

Sorry I didn't see your reply. I was looking to increase the group size with me and bots. Have since given up after everything, with my limited abilities, I tried failed. Thank you for all the replies though.

[Uleat]

Yeah, the actual group size would still be limited since bots reside as group members.


You can, however, pseudo-raid with multiple botgroups.

Each botgroup would still be limited to six members..but, you could effectively run as many groups as the max bots per client rule
will allow.


EDIT: Macros work wonders for spawning, summoning, issuing orders, etc...