[C++][SQL]Fake Online Players

[leonne]

you know what i was thinking that would be cool, is somehow we can make bots in the server that run around like real players. Maybe somehow using the ai npc bots from trinity core and making it so the bots do some basic things like running around killing things

[Kirsebaer]

This is just awful.

[Mr.Jebus Christ]

40% done converting this to trinity and mangos, sorry i've been a bit busy the last few weeks

[homer91]

Yaaay, nice to hear! ) Iam following this thread!

[lorac]

you know what i was thinking that would be cool, is somehow we can make bots in the server that run around like real players. Maybe somehow using the ai npc bots from trinity core and making it so the bots do some basic things like running around killing things

This wouldnt be a good thing to add to core reasons being

1. The script would be huge in order to provide realism
2. The load that would be placed on the core to load all the waypoints
because thats the only way its going to work Vmaps are not that advanced yet

3. The lag that it would cause would be awful

Just a few reasons

If you want to have server look populated with moving npcs
then recruit bots then convert to raid then recruit more
that would be more realistic
How ever expect lag once you load up 30 bots

I tried this and had alts following my main charactor
4 clients open 40 bots and 4 minions
My lats sky rocketed
I cant imagine 120 fake players running around running all different waypoints
Thats a core crash waiting to happen IMHO

[leonne]

lol thats true. I think there was a patch like this in scriptdev, well the patch just added bots in the battlegrounds.

[lorac]

Bots work great as long as they also get dismissed when a player logs or so forth but if you end up with bot populated server you could end up with a laggy or even worse crashy server especially when the player handler gets confused

This patch he is working on is about the best thing that can be offered to a new built server it shouldnt lag the server or mess with any of the packets
unlike bot automation could

[Mr.Jebus Christ]

just get a few servers run multiple wow clients on each and get a really really advanced bot :P

[lorac]

LOL yes that would work too except for the lag that it would cause on client side
Can you say lat spike?

Hey Terror hows the porting coming for tc if I may ask?

[ziPlet]

can anyone explain me how to attach / patch this?

[lorac]

can anyone explain me how to attach / patch this?

First and formost
you must be using your own compile of server
This will not work on repacks

Next you need to have a svn client setup on your system

Put patch in your svn dir for server
left click it and apply patch
Recompile server apply sqls
and your done

If you still dont understand use the search theres a lot of tutorials on applying patches and using svns and so forth
Hope this helped

[ziPlet]

hehe ok thx, +rep for the help

[homer91]

Or you can just open the patch file with notepad, and write the code manually to the right place.
( I usually do this, because nearly every patch file is outdated for me, so they gives me hunk errors :/)

[lorac]

Or you can just open the patch file with notepad, and write the code manually to the right place.
( I usually do this, because nearly every patch file is outdated for me, so they gives me hunk errors :/)

Great input

I forgot to mention that method

Also Make sure you dont put the + in front of the source if you are using that method
Thank you for the + rep
best of luck

[Mr.Jebus Christ]

I'm almost done with the mangos/trinity version.
I'll also post an updated arcemu patch when I post the mangos and trinity version.