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[The Arctica]

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:

[Solo Ace]

I think the bot has to spectate the user first before it can update that information.

[Bak]

In mervbot.ini set Misc::NoisySpectator to 1, if it's not there add it.
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[The Arctica]

Thanks Bak, that worked out.

[Maverick]

Bak, do you know what that setting does?
I'm wondering what it enables
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[Solo Ace]

Maybe it makes the bot iterate through the playerlist and spectate all players to update information?

[Bak]

that's exactly correct solo ace

from host.cpp:

Code: Show/Hide    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:

[Cyan~Fire]

Which is why ASSS owns.
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[50% Packetloss]

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

Code: Show/Hide    /*   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    */

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[Solo Ace]

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.