Bot help!

I'm reachin' out for bot wisdom....

The autospawner (wonka's) always spawns in alphabetical order. So if there are 3000 maps, the As will always start first. Is there a way to have it autospawn randomly from the map folder?

The autospawner (wonka's) never runs for more than a day or so at a time. Sometimes, it quits after a few games. I always come home to see that it has stopped. However, the processes 'DSopen' and 'wonkaspawn' are still running in the task manager. How can this be? It's easy enough to restart the bot, but then it starts those same maps again - the maps at the head of the list. (the Cyrano maps).

Do I always have to type /identify password to get recognized upon entry to IRC or is there a way to have it done automatically?

The password should be changed once in a while. But if I change it, then I have to have someone register the new one? Every time?

I'm unable to log on anything but the bot now. I can't log on as Acro seperately - it says connection in use or something like that.

What I need most of all is to understand why the spawner quits without actually 'quitting'.

Anyone? :D :?: :idea:

In mIRC 6.16 go to mIRC options, connect, options, click perform and stick your identify line in there. You will have to add the irc network to your server list if you don't want it to send the identify to all networks you connect to.

As for the spawner, I don't think you'll have much luck with fixing it since I would say it is most likely a problem with the WinboloDS itself. Also you would have to get wonka to add the random feature in the spawner.

Yes winbolods does randomly die once in awhile.....thus fucking up the odd spawn program/bot that is not prepared for it. I sent in a bug report for and and tried asking elvis about it but got ignored, so have fun :)

That totally sucks, SJ. So I take it the same problem would have happened on the autospawner you wrote, too?

You're welcome fuckhead

Dude....I posted a quick reply to SJ because it was the first question that came to mind after reading both posts. I didn't mean to hint or suggest any lack of gratitude for your help by not responding in kind. Indeed, I'm grateful for both of the quick responses, if somewhat disheartened by the fact that the autospawner has to be such high maintenance.

why don't you try my spawner and see if its any better .... does anyone even know I built a spawner 2 years before wonka and its availible for download? .... interesting

Min

Sure...but I might need a lil' 'how-to'. :)

Where might we find these?

Ok, ty everyone for the help.

Beast, check out the 'add-ons' section of Winbolo.Net.

Cro,
I ran and have run wonka's spawner for a long time and it does hang/crash every once and awhile but not daily/weekly. If you are crashing every day, then there is something else going on with your system since the autospawner does not normally do this.

When you say 'hang/crash' are you referring to the same problem I experienced? That the processes would still be running but no games appearing on the network? Or are you talking about an actual 'crash' and all processes stop? Thanks for giving it a test run, btw.

I use a low-tech spawning solution... A simple vbs script. Drop the following code into a file with a .vbs extension and double-click it from windows.

This has the advantage of having a game console window where you can key in commands such as "lock", "quit", "say", etc.

'////////////////////////////////////////////////

sServer = "c:\winbolo\winbolods.exe"
sTracker = "tracker.winbolo.com:50000"
sMapFolder = "c:\winbolo\maps\"

Set oWshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Do While True
RunGame "O's Maps\Best-O-Maps\O's Witchy.map"
RunGame "Baringi.map"
RunGame "slugfest\Slugfest II.map"
RunGame "Chewy somthin' or other.map"
RunGame "Daputa.map"
RunGame "Disinformation Campaign.MAP"
RunGame "O's Maps\Classics\O's Crossing.map"

' Add as many more as you like here...

Loop

Sub RunGame(sMap)
Dim sCommand

sCommand = sServer & " -port 27500 -gametype strict -mines no -ai no"
sCommand = sCommand & " -tracker " & sTracker
sCommand = sCommand & " -map """ & sMapFolder & sMap & """"
sCommand = sCommand & " -maxplayers 4 "
'sCommand = sCommand & " -nowinbolonet"

On Error Resume Next
oWshShell.run sCommand, 2, true
End Sub