Bots won't respond

[Congdar]

i was referring to my post in that thread. there are a few different versions of bots on public servers. some devs have made their own customizations and some have the older version of the bot system so it's hard to compare to what you've experienced on other servers. there is no fix in the works for the svn version, but eventually it will be repaired. the spells are in the database now, so you don't need bot_spells.sql anymore. i have not looked much at the new spell ai, but I believe that it needs some attention, or maybe I just don't have my cleric set right in the new ai.

[daerath]

Originally Posted by Congdar

i was referring to my post in that thread. there are a few different versions of bots on public servers. some devs have made their own customizations and some have the older version of the bot system so it's hard to compare to what you've experienced on other servers. there is no fix in the works for the svn version, but eventually it will be repaired. the spells are in the database now, so you don't need bot_spells.sql anymore. i have not looked much at the new spell ai, but I believe that it needs some attention, or maybe I just don't have my cleric set right in the new ai.

Thanks for the clarification! I'm going to go ahead and fire up the debugger and see what I can find.

[Yujiro93]

Hello,

I had the same problem and i'm with rev1834.
My wife resolved the problem by updating manually the DB and skiping one of the updates which was causing troubles with bots.
Can't remember exactly what is the skiped update but if you want to try this solution, i can ask here for more details.

[daerath]

Originally Posted by Yujiro93

Hello,

I had the same problem and i'm with rev1834.
My wife resolved the problem by updating manually the DB and skiping one of the updates which was causing troubles with bots.
Can't remember exactly what is the skiped update but if you want to try this solution, i can ask here for more details.

If you get a chance, could you ask her for more information? My build is now more functional thanks to bad_captain. He suggested that I double-check my Maps files, and it turns out I was missing some of them. If she applied the updates, which version of the schema did you start with? I thought the latest version of the DB (1751) had all of the updates automatically applied?

Adding in the missing files removed the "I'm a bot and I'll just run straight to the target" problem. Now they follow the terrain, but they still don't cast. =P

I'm going to drop VS2008 on my server today and see if I can debug out the problem. bad_captain said it may be a line-of-sight issue (hence the map suggestion), but I'm wondering if now I'm hitting the database problem you encountered.