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[Party Plugin] SimpleFollow - Multi-Bot Party Plugin

is this plugin able to work with 2 friends running DB not over a LAN? if so please post intructions as I cannot get it to work with a friend
 
I keep getting this
[SimpleFollow] Error - Main pulsed but plugin is disabled!
I also have an issue with getting invites to go out from the mainbot
 
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Drazz446 said:
(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.
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ok so here some results.

tested it for hours with ur setup and with my setup and with the latest versions of everythin

nothing was working constantly.
periodicaly freezes/crashes of the leaders client
fps drops leader/follower
tps drops leader/follower
 
Guys, what is in your opinion the most efficient class composition for a group of four while I play the Leader manually?

Any advice?
 
R3peat said:
ok so here some results.

tested it for hours with ur setup and with my setup and with the latest versions of everythin

nothing was working constantly.
periodicaly freezes/crashes of the leaders client
fps drops leader/follower
tps drops leader/follower
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+ a lot of idles on leader/follower
they just standing around and do nothing and diein
 
Trinity .25 currently throws errors that breaks the leader bot (Drazz you should update to .25 :cool:)

It also causes lag / performance issues, just wait for next trinity update.
 
does i have to do 2 folder with 2x dB or i can use the same folder?

i get this error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

The manuel leader also need a script?
if yes which... if i give him a script, he always start running on his own..
 
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Drazz446 said:
1 – A delay timer for quest = boss fight. For example: Your leader enters the game on a quest step that = boss fight then it delays 15 seconds or so before initiating the boss fight confirmation. Often what happens if leader does make/enter a game on boss fight he goes right in before the followers are even in the game, then they join and stand in town trying to teleport to leader while leader fights boss solo. (Yes I know this could be done in editing all the profiles, but would be a little smoother if it was controlled by simplefollow plugin)

2 – During boss fights, If a player dies while running the simplefollow plugin it does not release. Instead it triggers other bots running the plugin to do a resurrection and fallen player waits for accept resurrection button and accepts. (No point in releasing during the boss fights anyways when they just stand at checkpoint or in town trying to teleport to leader when they can't cause he is still in a boss encounter). Of course with the new revive at corpse this is only needed to trigger during boss fights. Granted this might be tricky to do considering there could be a full wipe and bots would need to be smart enough to then release when all party members are dead. But would be pretty cool if this feature was doable. If anyone can figure it out I'm sure Rrrix can. :)

Thanks
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I simply cannot get follow to work correctly with any boss fight profiles. For whatever reason once the leader makes the game and both join the follower instantly leaves

[SimpleFollow] Leader is not in game, exiting (Recent Interact=False, IsLeavingGame=False !IsInGame=True !IsInSameGame=True)

even though its during the moment the leader is going through the WP to Ghom. There's a lot in Simplefollow.cs so I don't know where to change or add a delay for this and was wondering if since this post someone found a solution?
 
The plugin works very well and there is no special configuration to do, it has "only" performance problems due to its very high resource requirement (well, my laptop uses an i7 with 8gb ram but still lags a bit).

Both bots use SimpleFollow, the leader has the options to invite friends and stay in party checked, the follower just the plugin activated with Stayinparty option. The leader loads any profile while the follower loads SimpleFollow.xml profile. Just remember to put the follower to Available status on bnet. Everything works also if chars are already in a party and already in game and makes no difference if the Leader DB starts before or after the follower DB.

I'm using same DB folder, Trinity .24 (just downgraded due to Riftbot but was working exactly the same with .25) and last version of this plugin.
 
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L0g23 said:
I keep getting this
[SimpleFollow] Error - Main pulsed but plugin is disabled!
I also have an issue with getting invites to go out from the mainbot
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Without seeing logs, all I can say is verify the plugin is enabled on leader and followers and the "invite party members" are checked on the leader.. If you are still having problems zip logs as Leader.zip Follower.zip so we can check it out.
 
R3peat said:
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

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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
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R3peat said:
ok so here some results.

tested it for hours with ur setup and with my setup and with the latest versions of everythin

nothing was working constantly.
periodicaly freezes/crashes of the leaders client
fps drops leader/follower
tps drops leader/follower
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Quoted you other post as a reference.. You said in 2 prior posts it was working good, then in the last one said it was not working consistently with the latest of everything. Well, that's why I am not running the latest of everything. :) However Im also not running a rift/bounty profile, so granted my older version of trinity may not work correctly for you if you are running some of the newer profiles.

Also, the freezes/crashes with the new stuff my not be linked to simplefollow. (I am not running Trinity .25 so I cannot say for sure) but I have seen ALOT of posts in the trinity form about performance issues with it.
 
Hajkfas said:
Trinity .25 currently throws errors that breaks the leader bot (Drazz you should update to .25 :cool:)

It also causes lag / performance issues, just wait for next trinity update.
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LOL! ... Im an old guy! New and shiny does not appeal to me anymore.. If it works I don't f' with it :)
 
itraxx said:
Guys, what is in your opinion the most efficient class composition for a group of four while I play the Leader manually?

Any advice?
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Northern Light said:
u can play him manually?
i cant ;(
i can only run him with a bot, how do you set up ur leader? lmk pls:o
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I posted an IDEA for a trinity option for this here (Number6):
http://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonbuddy-forum/plugins/trinity/158759-trinity-ideas-improvements.html

Along with some other useful suggestions. But the forum was quickly buried under bug reports, issues, questions, etc.

However - This use be able possible using a blank combat profile, but many has said it does not work anymore. I would "think" you should still be able to download a no combat/no loot profile, and do a TON of fine tuning to your trinity to stop all the looting, shrines, destructables, chests, ect. But as stated in my suggestion this is a ton of work to have to do all this to play manually for a little while then revert all your settings back to be able to bot the leader again. (Or of course if this worked you could just copy separate setup files for manual or bot play)

Here is an older guide I wrote for running a human leader with bot followers:
http://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonb...n-simplefollow-multi-bot-party-plugin-75.html

--I have been told that this does not work very good anymore with all the shrines, chests, looting, etc controlled by trinity and may require alot of tweaking.
 
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mrs1ug said:
I simply cannot get follow to work correctly with any boss fight profiles. For whatever reason once the leader makes the game and both join the follower instantly leaves

[SimpleFollow] Leader is not in game, exiting (Recent Interact=False, IsLeavingGame=False !IsInGame=True !IsInSameGame=True)

even though its during the moment the leader is going through the WP to Ghom. There's a lot in Simplefollow.cs so I don't know where to change or add a delay for this and was wondering if since this post someone found a solution?
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Not sure what that had to do with the ideas/suggestions quoted, :) however, you may need to zip/attach logs for that - I have not "seen" a post regarding it before and we may need to view the logs to see whats happening. (Leader.zip / Follower.zip) --Seems like your follower is not noticing your "leader" as the character that is the "leader"..
 
The plugin itself works great, however some of the profiles don't work very well, for example. The 3 musketeers profile doesn't work will with the plugin because the profile runs too fast and the follower doesn't always get in the game in time before the boss battles leading to issues.

This of course is a profile issue, I've adjusted wait timers for the profiles for the leader to give the bot followers some time to properly come in but in the end it doesn't seem efficient as running those bots solo in terms of exp/h, gold/h, and lph (only for the boss profiles I have tested so far).

I recommend using longer profiles with this plugin as it seems to work great with those but boss profiles aren't very good with this plugin and require a lot of tuning on your own end, once again of course that is a profile issue, this plug-in works great.
 
the only minus right now is the performance or worse ending with task manager because of hang up. so instead of using simplefollow. i just load both bots and use same profile in the same party like rifting. so far its working with better performance for me. but have to baby sit incase
 
taskmanager said:
the only minus right now is the performance or worse ending with task manager because of hang up. so instead of using simplefollow. i just load both bots and use same profile in the same party like rifting. so far its working with better performance for me. but have to baby sit incase
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Smart/Interesting Idea, Simplefollow has so many performance issues for me, if it wasn't for the fact I could trade legendaries I would just have them solo as it's way more efficient...

I'll try your idea and see how it goes, though botting shouldn't be babysitting...
 
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