MacroQuest64

Hi there I'm having trouble with autoslam/taunt with my warrior, tells me to set up a doability key, but I have one set up?

To the question:

Im having trouble having my bot do the commands that the master gives it. I'm not getting any error messages. When i do /gb /sit , that works so the bot is working. But it dont do any commands that it receives from the master. The bot also sends tells to the master for lost invis, etc... So it is working right just not doing the commands. Any suggestions? Thank you

My answer:

I had the same issue - make sure your genbot toon has tell windows *off*. The commands have to go to the main chat window. Thing works like a charm for me now.

Anyone else having a problem with bots casting a spell in gem9?

I've encountered some undesirable behavior in the buff routines in genbot. If the bot tries to buff someone but the spell won't take hold, it keeps retrying, and adds the buff to the timer list. Preferred behavior would be giving up trying to cast a spell that won't take hold and removing it from the tracked list of buffs.
Case in point, cleric buff virtue on tank. Oops. Tank dinged 62. Cleric buff conviction on tank. Conviction takes hold. An hour or two later, bot tries to buff virtue. It won't stick, so it tries again... and again, and again... Restart genbot. Oops. Lost all the other buff timers. Let's all have 15 mins of downtime while the cleric re-stages buffs.

ROFL, I run into the exact same thing with my chanter, druid, and cleric buffs. Nothing sucks more than getting my Night's Dark Terror rotation going again though.

It would be ideal if GB gave up trying to rebuff and dropped the spell from the timer list after 3-5 attempts. Or, even better would be a way to clear timers from the list. Like assign each buff a number when the bufflist command is called and make a "deletebuff ##" command. Hell, even a "deletebuff buffname charactername" would kick ass if that's easier to code. That way when Bob the Ranger doesn't like the Night's Dark Terror I keep refreshing on him every 15 mins, I can make the chanterbot stop casting it without a complete reload.

Another thing that sucks is when I cast the same group buff on 2 different people in the group. But, I don't think there's much GB can do about that unless it watches the "Soandso's does WTFever that buff does" messages to figure out if the timer needs to be reset for anyone else the buff takes hold on. And its really unnecessary as long as I make sure that the group buff is always refreshed on the same person in the group.

Sadly, it appears Genbot no longer has a janitor, and it's way too big a project for me. So, I guess it's take it or leave it!

Ran into a problem today and was wondering if anyone has a solution.

While bot is attacking a target, I send the bot a tell for noattack. The bot window shows it is parsing the command, but the bot will continue to attack until either the mob, or bot is dead. No matter what I try to do, it won't stop attacking.

Am I missing something?

/tell botname stop

might be nice ot see some caster attack code some simple single casts be better than just the pet attack. think i sent a few emails regarding caster code but not sure it went anywhere till then ill keep using gen 12 :)

If I wanted genbot to /target the person who issued a command before performing a shortcut, what would the syntax be?

Genbot Doc wrote:sn <spell|gemNumber|item|alt> CastName - Commands bot to cast the specified spell or item or alt ability on master's target.
spell|no parameter - will cast CastName on master's target.
gemNumber - If spell is not already memorized, memorizes it to slot Number before casting.
item - will right click item CastName on master's target.
alt - will use alt ability CastName on master's target.

And snt casts on whatever the bot currently has targetted. If you're running a chain of commands; like a debuff chain for a shammy/enc, use sn as the first cast command and then snt for all the following debuffs in that shortcut. Otherwise he clears his target and re-assists every command in the chain, which eats up a lot more time than you'd think.

Example: sn Howl of Tashan|snt Forlorn Deeds|snt Cripple

In your alias section:

sow=snt Spirit of Wolf on NameS

In game, you type "sow Bob" to have genbot cast spirit of wolf on Bob.

snt means to cast a spell. What if I want to execute another command? Say for example /whot, /con, /follow...

Follow is handled in the follow command. I've never tried it but it seems to imply that it will follow the master's target if no parameter is given.

I'm not sure why you'd want your bot to do a /whot or /con for you since you've got the target right there though.

I know about the bot's follow routine and such. I'm trying to talk my way around the actual command that I want it to perform, because it's an active modification to EQ that isn't supported in these forums. But if I can have the bot /follow me using pre-hack /follow, I can get it to do what I want it to.
Is this beyond the capability of a shortcut, and should I move my routine to personal.inc?

And suddenly a light dawns... yes, I think for what you're not saying you need, you want to have the routine in personal.inc.