[Party Plugin] SimpleFollow - Multi-Bot Party Plugin

[BlackOctober]

If you can't handle a certain torment solo you won't be able to handle it in a party of two. That's not how D3 works. Not when botting at least.

In fact, you may even want to drop down a difficulty when botting with SimpleFollow..

Sorry, I should have worded that better. We run Ghom on T6 already but hoped to benefit from the extra magic find of running together. Can SimpleFollow support bots on different computers?

 

[speculoos]

Here's my problem he does that 1 times out of 3... And when i manually get him to ghom he fights but dont loot any one have an idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXXPn2lg9s

Obv that's the follower btw...

EDIT: From what ive noticed on the long run is that follower gets blocked if he spawn in one of ghom's poison cloud... Is there any reason it's acting like that?
I have set up both trinity ( on main and follower to not path around AoE and also not attempt to avoid , basicly unticked these too) never have a problem with main but follower still does that sometimes :-/

 

[rrrix]

I have made some simple modifications to this plugin to get followers working correctly when running bounties. I am currently testing for stability but it looks good so far.


Looks good.


Replace Plugins/SimpleFollow/FollowTag.cs with the attached updated version.
If you use multiple DB folders make sure you put it in your followers folder.

rrrix's original teleport to leader function use the in-town banners not the actual teleport to player function you can use in game by right clicking a party members portrait.

My changes replace some follower behavior to ensure that they teleport back to town when the leader switches zones. This allows them to then banner back to the leaders new location.

*** This isn't tested on anything other than the bounty profile so I suggest you back up your original FollowTag.cs before overwriting so you can switch between them depending on whether you want to run bounties or another profile. Do not place backups in the SimpleFollow folder; this seems to break the plugin even if renamed. That said, none of the changes should, theoretically, even trigger when running a normal profile so I'm 90% sure it will work universally.

Not sure what issues you're having. The teleport to leader doesn't use the "banners" - it only reads the players ACDGuid in order to get the leader index if it can, and that data is only readable from the banners. It uses the TeleportToPlayer function to actually teleport, not clicking the banner.

Also, for me, bounties are working fine without your edits. You shouldn't have to TownPortal before Teleporting to a player...

 

[djdirt]

is there any way to make the 2nd account follow closer? it stays too far back when in boss fights and never gets other chars buffs.

 

[speculoos]

Here's my problem he does that 1 times out of 3... And when i manually get him to ghom he fights but dont loot any one have an idea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXXPn2lg9s

Obv that's the follower btw...

EDIT: From what ive noticed on the long run is that follower gets blocked if he spawn in one of ghom's poison cloud... Is there any reason it's acting like that?
I have set up both trinity ( on main and follower to not path around AoE and also not attempt to avoid , basicly unticked these too) never have a problem with main but follower still does that sometimes :-/

EDIT 2 :ive looked a bit and it seems that the id of ghom gas is 93837. I thought it could have been blacklisted or something i don't really know but it does not appear on the list in the simplefollow profile
I also tried to reduce movement speed by 5 % on my follower from main, could this be the issue?

Please anyone?

 

[djdirt]

EDIT 2 :ive looked a bit and it seems that the id of ghom gas is 93837. I thought it could have been blacklisted or something i don't really know but it does not appear on the list in the simplefollow profile
I also tried to reduce movement speed by 5 % on my follower from main, could this be the issue?

Please anyone?

My mage does this also!! thats why i was asking about moving the toon closer! My mage still attacks because of ranged but wont move closer to engage archon mode etc.

 

[Drazz446]

is there any way to make the 2nd account follow closer? it stays too far back when in boss fights and never gets other chars buffs.

Well my bots tend to stay right on top of eachother when moving.. However there could be a couple reasons why yours are not.

-Actual trouble with DB or the Plugin
-Computer Performance
-Your leaders movement speed might be faster then your followers
-Also bots during boss fights will not stay together the whole time (ie. dodging aoe/attacks/etc) The objective will be for them to re-engage the boss they are fighting rather then move to where the leader is at.

 

[taskmanager]

drazz can you give me your performance on your bots using this plugin? like does it lag/tps after couple minutes (+30 minutes, particularly the follower). my experience with simplefollower still locks up d3 client both stable and db betas. tell us db stable or beta, trinity, qtool versions.

 

[speculoos]

Well my bots tend to stay right on top of eachother when moving.. However there could be a couple reasons why yours are not.

-Actual trouble with DB or the Plugin
-Computer Performance
-Your leaders movement speed might be faster then your followers
-Also bots during boss fights will not stay together the whole time (ie. dodging aoe/attacks/etc) The objective will be for them to re-engage the boss they are fighting rather then move to where the leader is at.

The number 4 is what interest me the most. As you might see on the video i posted sometimes my bot just don't fight and loot at all ( once every 4 times i would say) Is there a way to add in followerprofile another check to fight the boss if he is not? The main problem is not that his not fighting its that he doesnt even loot anything when he does not engage boss ...

 

[R3peat]

drazz can you give me your performance on your bots using this plugin? like does it lag/tps after couple minutes (+30 minutes, particularly the follower). my experience with simplefollower still locks up d3 client both stable and db betas. tell us db stable or beta, trinity, qtool versions.

same thing here. follower sometimes just stand around and do nothing - tps droping extremly and d3 client fps fropin - d3 client crashes/freezes

 

[Drazz446]

The number 4 is what interest me the most. As you might see on the video i posted sometimes my bot just don't fight and loot at all ( once every 4 times i would say) Is there a way to add in followerprofile another check to fight the boss if he is not? The main problem is not that his not fighting its that he doesnt even loot anything when he does not engage boss ...

Sorry, that was my bad, I did not even notice there was a video attached when I replied. I'll check it out in a few and see whats up. Sorry about that.

 

[Drazz446]

drazz can you give me your performance on your bots using this plugin? like does it lag/tps after couple minutes (+30 minutes, particularly the follower). my experience with simplefollower still locks up d3 client both stable and db betas. tell us db stable or beta, trinity, qtool versions.

(Not sure how long you have been browsing this forum so I just wanted to give you some background) .. I have been using this plugin almost as as long as it has been out and have been having problems and made many posts over the last couple months, until a week or so ago. Since then my bots have been running so EXCEPTIONALLY good I have been afraid to update anything! However I did update my trinity a week or so ago and it didnt seem to effect anything negatively. My followers have been moving fast, keeping pace with the leader, they run through the game and destroy everything as a 4player team. I check on it sometimes when I get home from work and usually every 3 days or so I'll clean out the stash then restart them.

The only times my bot is down:
During a blizz update/maintenance when the server is down.
When I stop it to clear out stash.

My setup:
DB .355
Trinity .22
QuestTools .24
SimpleFollow .16 all on a 600ms update interval.

 

[Drazz446]

The number 4 is what interest me the most. As you might see on the video i posted sometimes my bot just don't fight and loot at all ( once every 4 times i would say) Is there a way to add in followerprofile another check to fight the boss if he is not? The main problem is not that his not fighting its that he doesnt even loot anything when he does not engage boss ...

Ok, I watched the video. Hard to determine the problem by the video, however it does not appear to be a D3 performance issue as it didnt look to be freezing or anything.

Question 1: Did you speed the video up or are you testing in normal mode or something. Cause it took you 10sec to kill. (Not that it matters to me what you are doing, I'm just asking because sometimes my followers will enter and wont goto attacking immediately when they enter but after a few seconds they will usually start up, although it doesnt happen often it does happen occasional, was just wondering if you sped the footage up or if it was actually a 10second fight?)

Question 2: When this happens are you getting errors on your follower? Can you provide follower logs next time happens?

 

[R3peat]

(Not sure how long you have been browsing this forum so I just wanted to give you some background) .. I have been using this plugin almost as as long as it has been out and have been having problems and made many posts over the last couple months, until a week or so ago. Since then my bots have been running so EXCEPTIONALLY good I have been afraid to update anything! However I did update my trinity a week or so ago and it didnt seem to effect anything negatively. My followers have been moving fast, keeping pace with the leader, they run through the game and destroy everything as a 4player team. I check on it sometimes when I get home from work and usually every 3 days or so I'll clean out the stash then restart them.

The only times my bot is down:
During a blizz update/maintenance when the server is down.
When I stop it to clear out stash.

My setup:
DB .355
Trinity .22
QuestTools .24
SimpleFollow .16 all on a 600ms update interval.

will test this setup later

 

[speculoos]

Ok, I watched the video. Hard to determine the problem by the video, however it does not appear to be a D3 performance issue as it didnt look to be freezing or anything.

Question 1: Did you speed the video up or are you testing in normal mode or something. Cause it took you 10sec to kill. (Not that it matters to me what you are doing, I'm just asking because sometimes my followers will enter and wont goto attacking immediately when they enter but after a few seconds they will usually start up, although it doesnt happen often it does happen occasional, was just wondering if you sped the footage up or if it was actually a 10second fight?)

Question 2: When this happens are you getting errors on your follower? Can you provide follower logs next time happens?

Thanks for the answer ! The video is not speed up at all. It was T3 or T4 fight can't remember exactly.

Ive attached 2 logs to this post. (PID:6980 is the main account log and PID:8264 is the follower's one). I could not attached the main account log because file was too big (+15MB for only a 15 min log btw lol ) so i have uploaded them to file hoster

https://mega.co.nz/#!jQk2xISa!VEd6EB4EBID1bA7ZI5oUZLI2BGM3lp9339SGjXRXiGY and https://mega.co.nz/#!OZ0gWYrC!D6EbpZrHiWd6iIE2DpBtn5Ss9HdyIrkDEh0nIQl4nzE

I have compiled 10 tries to be as complete as possible.
I'm using DB.394 Trinity.24 SimpleFollow .17 Torment 4 difficulty
Follower has more speed than Main account ( approx 10% more )
Ticks are usually more than 14 ticks/s each , main is in general higher ( 15ticks/s )
Interval is let as default. Unitcked all invites because main and follower are allready together when starting and i wish them to stay that way.
I start Main account bot first followed by the follower with SimpleFollow.xml
They do not loot anything else than Legendaries and Rare mats because if they do it become a big mess lol


Try 1 : OK
Try 2 : Follower Freeze middle of ghom's room then go fight him but do not loot ( death breath in that case)
Try 3 : OK
Try 4 : Follower freeze at room start and does not fight Ghom ( exactly as the video posted previously). Still use his skills WOTB/Battle Rage. still TP town when fight over
Try 5 : OK
Try 6 : Follower enter game late ( got a trinity error ) and can't join main game because main account is in dungeon fight.
Try 7 : OK
Try 8 : OK
Try 9 : Follower freeze at room start and does not fight Ghom ( exactly as the video posted previously). Still use his skills WOTB/Battle Rage. still TP town when fight over
Try 10 : OK

I have also added both logs where the main bot crash completely. When that happens have to leave DB and restart itor it will make D3 windows freeze too, happens when follower did not leave game soon enought to start new game.

https://mega.co.nz/#!SMFkxR4I!AKYcApzIf6Uycs084fWoS95vM9DW6u6n4vi6d2L5aHU and https://mega.co.nz/#!Pd0BRY4a!WlVpZsDBV0gLDfu91evXLf-bVNVO5BOxc0gtLtdmhAk

Thanks for your help anyway If you need any other thing please don't hesitate.

 

[R3peat]

k testing now:

db .557 pub release
trinity .24
simplefollow .16
quest .24

running smooth till now. no stucks . no crashes/freezes
seems some bug in the latest beta releases of db or some performance issues

 

[Drazz446]

@Speculoos -

Ok, I've looked over the logs, would like you to try something when it freezes up. May help point rrrix in the right direction to fix. It looks to me like a navigation type issue.

-- Just to test, put on t6 so you have a little more time, when the follower accepts boss invite and does his standing around by the gate, use the follower's DB window and hit "Force Grid Reset" .. Let me know if that kick starts it to start acting normally.

When you get a chance you might want to also try my setup/the versions I am using.. You dont need to delete/overwrite your current DB.. You can just install into a new folder to try it, if it doesnt work better just delete. (Just figured id put that out there cause I dont have that problem with what I am running.)

 

[Drazz446]

k testing now:

db .557 pub release
trinity .24
simplefollow .16
quest .24

running smooth till now. no stucks . no crashes/freezes
seems some bug in the latest beta releases of db or some performance issues

Well, I didnt want to publicly say: "Its the BETA releases" however they just don't seem to work well for my setup so I stick with what works. .. After 5 or so hours lemmie know if you still running good .

 

[R3peat]

Well, I didnt want to publicly say: "Its the BETA releases" however they just don't seem to work well for my setup so I stick with what works. .. After 5 or so hours lemmie know if you still running good .

k overall still fine atm. just one little thing

@townrun it stands @ blacksmith and cant open inventory to salvage

"Opening salvage window" but nothing happens

have to open it manualy and the bot goes on


but this could be an issue with trinity .24 i think mby .24 cant handle the "old" .557 db classes

but with .22 my profiles was not working correctly

edit:

trinity .25 now
enabled questtools on follower

townrun now working correctly

will report in some hours how constant they run now with this setup


leader:

zrift profile + plug
trinity .25
quest .24 + lumberjack .16
simplefollow .16


follower:

trinity .25
quest + lumber
simplefollow .16

 

[speculoos]

@Speculoos -

Ok, I've looked over the logs, would like you to try something when it freezes up. May help point rrrix in the right direction to fix. It looks to me like a navigation type issue.

-- Just to test, put on t6 so you have a little more time, when the follower accepts boss invite and does his standing around by the gate, use the follower's DB window and hit "Force Grid Reset" .. Let me know if that kick starts it to start acting normally.

When you get a chance you might want to also try my setup/the versions I am using.. You dont need to delete/overwrite your current DB.. You can just install into a new folder to try it, if it doesnt work better just delete. (Just figured id put that out there cause I dont have that problem with what I am running.)

Thanks for the advices I tried Force Grid Reset . The bot just stopped i had to restart it for it to keep on so i don't know if im doing anything wrong?

Ill try your setup tonight and will be back with an update Thanks again for your help !