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Bot Questions - Weird.

The Arctica - Sun May 15, 2005 7:28 am
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How come when i *prize #27 someone a rocket, and i let the bot display amount of rockets, doesn't matter how many rockets i give, the bot always shows 0. :S And:

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p->(burst, repel, thor, brick, decoy, rocket, portal) = how many items of that type player has

Can anyone help me?

-Arctica

Solo Ace - Sun May 15, 2005 8:03 am
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I think the bot has to spectate the user first before it can update that information.

Bak - Sun May 15, 2005 8:18 am
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In mervbot.ini set Misc::NoisySpectator to 1, if it's not there add it.

The Arctica - Sun May 15, 2005 8:30 am
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Thanks Bak, that worked out.

Maverick - Sun May 15, 2005 12:36 pm
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Bak, do you know what that setting does?
I'm wondering what it enables

Solo Ace - Sun May 15, 2005 1:19 pm
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Maybe it makes the bot iterate through the playerlist and spectate all players to update information?

Bak - Sun May 15, 2005 4:53 pm
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that's exactly correct solo ace

from host.cpp:

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if (pp->ship != SHIP_Spectator && botInfo.db->noisySpectator)
{
   if (time - pp->lastPositionUpdate > 100)
   if (time - lastSpec > 20)
   { // Request position if we've lost him
      pp->lastPositionUpdate = time;

      spectate(pp);
   }
}

the value of botInfo.db->noisySpectator is set in botdp.cpp:

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noisySpectator = (getPrivateProfile32("Misc", "NoisySpectator", "0", path) != 0);

Cyan~Fire - Fri May 20, 2005 5:14 pm
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Which is why ASSS owns.

50% Packetloss - Fri May 20, 2005 5:28 pm
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Normally a bot does not request extra-position data from a player, doing so on every player in the arena will lag the hell out of the place (depending on the population).
Here is the position packet

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/* Field Length Description
   0    1    Type byte
   1    1    Rotation
   2    2    Time stamp
   4    2    X pixels
   6    1    Ping
   7    1    Bounty
   8    1    Player ident
   9    1    Togglables
   10    2    Y velocity
   12    2    Y pixels
   14    2    X velocity
Spectating with ExtraPositionData or *energy
   16    2    Energy
Spectating with ExtraPositionData
   18    2    S2CLag
   20    2    Timer
   22    4    Item information
*/

Solo Ace - Fri May 20, 2005 5:51 pm
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Sup yo 50 cent, dats c00l homie.

Why would a MERV need updated information for all players anyway?
If you're going to use a player's information, make sure that player's information is up-to-date, but iterating through the arenalist and updating all player data would be overkill since you're only processing a very small part of the data anyway.
Plugins where updating information constantly would be required are an exception of course.