EQEmu Bots question...

[Theeper]

You could do it with MQ. Macros and Plugins have the same functionality basically. It's just that plugins are compiled and macros are interpreted at run time. You wouldn't need anything other than multiple accounts.

I am sure you could make a macro to send commands to your NPC bots, whether they are Magoth's NPC bots, or PC toons. I think it would take extensive coding to make PC bots that didn't require an EQ client though.

[Kambic]

There would be a lot of obstacles to overcome, which could be in time, but I think what will be the worst will be getting your bot to move around. There really is no "logic" you could program your bot to move around with (that I know of), without making everything coordinate based. Using MQ with a few plugins could get you to a mob making a be line, and make sure you are facing it, but the problems really arise when you have to be moving to particular places. It's not impossible, there is some really good stuff that has been written for maxing out trade skills, and you could probably begin look at what has been there to see what is feasible.

[Iobn]

This is a very interesting idea, I've been working with MQ on and off and have my toons on live so they can do some basic playing.

I wanted to combine that with EQEmu and see if I can't create a script that would take a character from creation to level 50.

I would like to create a domain specific language that could be used to define a new toons aspirations.

So you'd use the DSL to define what your toon wants out of life, and perhaps some attitude or factions of their personality, then turn them loose.

But I know what a HUGE task what I described is, so here is to small steps...

* Get my EQEmu Server up and running
* Get a version of MQ that works with the Titanium Client
* Get my toon and a basic macro that can level from 1 to 3 in start zone
* Abstract why or what the toon is hunting and to what end
* Start to define simple aspiration language

[Richardo]

I could see this working like the following.


Every zone could have several several grids that would have level ranges per grid. For example, there would be a grid that would patrol throughout Crushbone for levels 1 - 5 in the entrance. Then, another grid in Crushbone that the bot would switch to once they've leveled beyond 5 specifically set for his level. Once he's maxed out for that zone, he'd move on to another zone.

You're looking at a crap load of work.... :p You'd have to maybe add new fields in the grids table that specified level range - minlvl - maxlvl - for bots. This way, bots could reason which grid to jump on.

Basically, to my knowledge you want a way to make a bot community... Yeah, you're looking at a major project. But it is possible..

Originally Posted by Davood

anyone remember "Alice" the chat program from the commodore 64 era.. well it's been re-written and ported so many times. i was thinking of putting it into eq for bots

It's funny that you mentioned that. Back in Dark Horizons, we ported the Alice bot onto one of our NPCs. God, I wish I had a backu p of the quests we had for DH. I lost it all. :(

[Yeormom]

You can also implement roaming bots without writing new grids using advanced perl scripting, as it has been done on a server or two.