Server Help

Anborn · Newbie Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 13 Offline

can the mervbot pickup/move/place a powerball? does it have that kind of capability?
_________________
Anborn
-- SSHZ

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:00 am Post subject:

Try doing a /*warpto on the bot to put it over the ball, then warp it else where, if ball moves, then there ya go. Tho i suspect that it reacts the same way it does to flags, and immediately drop them unowned.
_________________
There are no stupid question, but there are many inquisitive idiots.
Loot

Dr Brain> I hate clean air and clean water. I'm a member of Evil Conservitive Industries

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:09 am Post subject:

You don't pickup the ball unless you send a ball-request packet, so unless Merv has a function for that, it cannot pickup the ball. Clients would see the ball disappearing because they think the bot should get it, but since the bot never sends the packet, the ball is never picked up.

SOS · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 12:36 am Post subject:

Yes, it can use the ball.
Just look in the source for the functions.
_________________
3y3 4m l33t h4x0r
j0! 3y3 4m t4lking to j00!
fux0red 5cr1pt k1dd13.
-"l33t h41ku"

Dustpuppy · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:04 am Post subject:

mrmannersneeds to login · Guest Offline

it ll prob crash the bot cuz the server program will get pissed off and tell merv to fuck itself in a corner

VampZ · Guest Offline

take a random player and *warpto ballx ball y. then

wait till ball_moved event occurs and randomplayer.ident == ball.carrier

then *warpto the player whereever you want and

*setship (nottheirship) them. ( so they drop pball )

Then *setship (their original ship) them.

Then you could even *wapto them to their original location and hope they don't notice the lack of velocty, random direction, and couple frames of being warped around.

Dr Brain · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject:

LOL!
_________________
Hyperspace Owner

Smong> so long as 99% deaths feel lame it will always be hyperspace to me

Helicon · Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

i like this idea, what will we call it?...
executive hijacking???
im inspired, im going to write a plugin. "Guinea pig" - just to mess with people's minds. better yet... warp them to the positions of all the flags, then spec... warn "HEHEHE" then chacnge their ship randomly for 5 sec, msg "HEEHEEHEE" and prize them 3 points

we could even do subspace roulette... choose door number one, door number two, or................ door number three!!!!!

that sounds totally game immoral, lets tell SSC...
_________________
Signatures just seem so quaint.

SOS · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:01 am Post subject:

It can't?? I guess Catid was too lazy... it was even in his VB bot

Adding a couple of functions for it would not be too hard for anyone though

Dustpuppy · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 10:48 am Post subject:

It's something to do with the new Continuum protocol:

Doggeti · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 3:48 am Post subject:

If a goal is scored i set aftergoal to true, that works.

Then in BallMove i have this

Code: Show/Hide

case EVENT_BallMove:
   {
      PBall *ball = (PBall*)event.p[0];
      if(aftergoal)
      {
         sendPublic("Bot spwans");
         sendPrivate(me, "*setship 3");
         sendPublic("Bot gets warped");
         String s;
         s = "*warpto ";
         s += ball->x;
         s += " ";
         s += ball->y;
         sendPrivate(me, s);
         aftergoal = false;
      }
   }
   break;

The bot spawns in ship 3 as it should but something is wrong with warping the bot. It reappears somewhere on the map.

ExplodyThingy · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 4:09 pm Post subject:

You need to tell it to send certain packets. At, least, you do with flags.
Im not sure how to for the ball, though i would like to know