Arcturus BuffBot?

[xRizonx]

Hi,

I was wondering how did AkramROSE and some other ROSE's implement an buffbot, for example when you say "buff" it buffs the player automaticly.

Is this done with AIP or some other way?

Thank you.

[MentaL]

[Purpleyouko]

Akram's buffbots were player characters running on automated scripts.

It is potentially possible to make a buff bot work with AIP.
The trick is when to trigger the skill casting and how to target specific players. AOE buffs are easy enough.

One possible way to do it would be to use a CON QSD combination on an NPC buffbot so that you can talk to it and ask for buffs then have the QSD set a specific quest flag in your character data. AIP can then detect this flag and buff the player. (not sure this will work though)

The problem is that QSD cannot directly address a player to buff them. It can only access quest flags and stuff while AIP is extremely general and has trouble addressing players directly at all.

I could easily make it work in one of the osrose servers by making a small modification to the QSD handling code but on an arc server I'm not sure it's going to work at all.

Akram could never get an AIP buffbot to work. That's why they resorted to using player characters.

[xRizonx]

Strange,

Some server had an NPCBot buffing players when he said buff and another server had one buffing each few minutes so i am not sure as to how they did it but it was most certainly arc files that much i know for sure!

[Purpleyouko]

Akram had the bot that buffed you when you said "buff"
It wasn't an NPC though. it was a player character, logged in from a client machine, that was controlled with an external script.

Setting up an NPC that casts AOE buffs every few minutes is relatively easy. You can do that with AIP. Trouble is that it buffs every player in range whether they want it or not.

[opexone78]

This AOE buff looks like implemented in ARUA ROSE... the NPC buff will announcement to all players when the NPC will release the buff skill.
Once again as PurpleYouko said, the buff only release surrounding a certain area near the NPC, wether the players like or not, when they reach the range, they get buff.

[xRizonx]

Well that sounds good enough as a buff cant hurt anyone and that it can't over-ride stronger buffs anyways.

I bet the int value of the buffs is also placed in the AIP Files? since i could not find Arua's in their LIST_NPC file

[Purpleyouko]

quite frankly it often pisses me off when I get buffed without wanting it.

I once spent hours in a server trying to get screen shots to make a comic strip.
Carefully posing several characters to get the best angles then some cleric comes along and BAM we're all covered in buffs so I have to go AFK for 10 minutes till they all wear off.
Just about to take screen shots and BAM another frickin cleric.

I literally wasted about 4 hours cuz some muppet thought they were being helpful buffing my actors