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[Party Plugin] SimpleFollow - Multi-Bot Party Plugin

Kudos rrrrix.

Been using a team of 3 bots for the last 2 weeks. Works wonders.
Only hiccup is that a follower sometimes gets stuck during townruns. Not happening very often tho and a DB-reboot solves the problem.
Keep the slowest movement-speed on the leader and make sure to play around with the Elite/Trash-range in trinity to suit your needs (for me I keep the 2 followers on a pretty tight range of 35). And make sure that the leader don't bypass trash that the followers will stop to kill.
 
dottzor said:
Kudos rrrrix.

Been using a team of 3 bots for the last 2 weeks. Works wonders.
Only hiccup is that a follower sometimes gets stuck during townruns. Not happening very often tho and a DB-reboot solves the problem.
Keep the slowest movement-speed on the leader and make sure to play around with the Elite/Trash-range in trinity to suit your needs (for me I keep the 2 followers on a pretty tight range of 35). And make sure that the leader don't bypass trash that the followers will stop to kill.
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what does your team consist of, just curious?
 
Monk, Barb, WD
Botting on HC exclusively, mp 3-5.

Monk leads and gather with Cyclone Strike.
Then Barb leaps in and keep em stunned and in place for the WD (who carries the biggest stick) and monk to end the pack.
Most packs dont even get a chance to place arcane beams or frozen orbs.
I have played around quite alot in the trinity settings to make em work as I want em. At such low mp, trash just melts.
Just not worth it to bot on higher mp on HC. All IMHO of course.
 
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Hello, I really love this plugin. Just have a couple small problems with it that I couldnt find a solution to. My characters often do the tango with each other pacing back and forth as if they cant figure out which one wants to lead. I have watched the diag logs alot trying to figure out how to fix, I think its something to do with the hotspots the leader adds then seems as if leader it generating paths back to his own hotspots. Causing the characters to run back and forth. When my leader or followers run a solo profile they run fine, as soon as follower joins my leader he gets confused chasing ghost. The tango really slows down the exp/gold/item per hours as it seems they spend alot of time pacing back and forth after everything. Anyways, it made me think of an idea for this plugin that many would probably like if it was possible.. Would it be possible to add checkboxs on the simplefollow config window to "Force Leader" or even: "Is Leader Checkbox / Is Follower Checkbox / Auto-detect Leader Checkbox" When the Leader / Force Leader / etc is checked the leader ignores hotspots and other crap that the followers use to navigate? Would also avoid people having problems with bot not picking the character they want to lead? (Have had that problem too before the maxhitpoints fix.

Thanks everyone for all your hard work writing these programs and taking time to help us,

Drazz
 
can you please tell me how to setup the 2 computers .net WCF thing? ive been trying to troubleshoot for a while but i cant figure it out :( im not a computer savvy guy lol

Drazz446 said:
Hello, I really love this plugin. Just have a couple small problems with it that I couldnt find a solution to. My characters often do the tango with each other pacing back and forth as if they cant figure out which one wants to lead. I have watched the diag logs alot trying to figure out how to fix, I think its something to do with the hotspots the leader adds then seems as if leader it generating paths back to his own hotspots. Causing the characters to run back and forth. When my leader or followers run a solo profile they run fine, as soon as follower joins my leader he gets confused chasing ghost. The tango really slows down the exp/gold/item per hours as it seems they spend alot of time pacing back and forth after everything. Anyways, it made me think of an idea for this plugin that many would probably like if it was possible.. Would it be possible to add checkboxs on the simplefollow config window to "Force Leader" or even: "Is Leader Checkbox / Is Follower Checkbox / Auto-detect Leader Checkbox" When the Leader / Force Leader / etc is checked the leader ignores hotspots and other crap that the followers use to navigate? Would also avoid people having problems with bot not picking the character they want to lead? (Have had that problem too before the maxhitpoints fix.

Thanks everyone for all your hard work writing these programs and taking time to help us,

Drazz
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Multiple PC Simple Follow

This is what I consider to be the easiest most stable setup:

You will need to edit simplefollow.cs file on the ?follower? computer(s)
Find this line: private static Uri serverUri = new Uri("http://localhost:10920");
(It will be right on the first page, near the top). Change the address to match the LAN ip of the master computer ? The one you want to designate as your leader. This is telling the follower machines which computer is leading for them to talk to.
(You no longer need to edit the simplefollow.cs file to do this. Demonbuddy/Plugins/Simplefollow you can set Bind IP = Leader IP address, same concept)

Example / Follower computers:
private static Uri serverUri = new Uri("http://192.168.1.101:10920");
(If 192.168.1.101 = the IP of the master pc)

If you have a software based firewall, you may need to open port 10920 on the master computer so the firewall does not block connections to/from that port. I made a rule on mine to allow all connection types from addresses matching 192.168.*.* (This allows all traffic to communicate with that computer on that specific port over my local network only)

To keep things simple on a hardware firewall/DHCP/modem what I did was an address reservation for my master computer. - All routers I've worked with have a way to set this up in their web gui. For example: Computer Name: MasterPC = 192.168.1.101 ? This way the IP does not change on my leader computer making my bots fail to communicate with it. You dont want your DHCP assigning your master computer a new IP after you setup your follower config files to look for a specific IP. If that happens, none of them other then your master pc will run until you re-update all your simplefollow.cs files to match the new master IP. A pain in the ass to do everytime it changes. Of course you can always setup all static ips/etc, but I believe this to be the easiest way to go, like myself I have a ton of devices in my home and the only one I care to have reserved is my master pc.

Simple troubleshooting -
Once you have verified all the obvious (simplefollow enabled on both, that your follower machines are pointing to the leader, etc) and they are still not connecting, you may have something blocking it. Disable all your virus protection, firewalls, malware checkers, etc and try to run it.

If you are still unable to get it running set diag logging on bots, check the diag log box on the simplefollow, and post a reply with your logs attached and we'll take a look.

Hope this helps.
 
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Would it be possible to make the 3 bots follow your main account (which doesn't use Demonbuddy) so that in RoS you could play safely on 1 account and have 3 bots back you up?
 
Rrix, been doing a lot of work with simple follower & I gotta say, that it's badass to have a group of 4 farming mp10.

Here's some possible upgrades/suggestions that could go a long way -

Leader should be able to use a banner of one of his party members. This can potentially increase run speeds on farming profiles. If they're dead, then he should just run back. Not sure how this would work unless it can check party members hp levels.

Followers should ignore anything that the leader isnt attacking on. They should try to cluster more frequently (if they get seperated because of how the trash/elites pull, they always try to be within X range of the leader). This would allow better trash balls.

non simple follow suggestion:

All abilities should get options. I.e. If I want my monk to spam any two abilities nonstop (every other milisecond), I should be able to designate that in the settings menu. I think it could simplify things, having an option saying "spam [ drop down box ] and [ drop down box ] simultaneously at [TextBox] ms interval" so that the other 4 abilities it detects can follow combat routine logic.
 
Pyck said:
Would it be possible to make the 3 bots follow your main account (which doesn't use Demonbuddy) so that in RoS you could play safely on 1 account and have 3 bots back you up?
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Not with the currernt program. The followers communicate with the leader over demonbuddy/simplefollow plugin for the cords/etc. It easy todo though if you get another demonbuddy key, you just need to run the demonbuddy with a blank profile. Then demonbuddy/simplefollow will lead your team and you will be in control.
 
Farix said:
Rrix, been doing a lot of work with simple follower & I gotta say, that it's badass to have a group of 4 farming mp10.

Here's some possible upgrades/suggestions that could go a long way -

Leader should be able to use a banner of one of his party members. This can potentially increase run speeds on farming profiles. If they're dead, then he should just run back. Not sure how this would work unless it can check party members hp levels.

Followers should ignore anything that the leader isnt attacking on. They should try to cluster more frequently (if they get seperated because of how the trash/elites pull, they always try to be within X range of the leader). This would allow better trash balls.

non simple follow suggestion:

All abilities should get options. I.e. If I want my monk to spam any two abilities nonstop (every other milisecond), I should be able to designate that in the settings menu. I think it could simplify things, having an option saying "spam [ drop down box ] and [ drop down box ] simultaneously at [TextBox] ms interval" so that the other 4 abilities it detects can follow combat routine logic.
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(Not exactly if this is what you are asking about the abilities): But I use 2 plugins on my follower bots (simplefollow & trinity) and in trinity advanced/variable config I tweak the spell delay to delay & speedup the frequency of certain skills and change some of the behavior to work good together.
 
Drazz446 said:
(Not exactly if this is what you are asking about the abilities): But I use 2 plugins on my follower bots (simplefollow & trinity) and in trinity advanced/variable config I tweak the spell delay to delay & speedup the frequency of certain skills and change some of the behavior to work good together.
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Sure, and that's somewhat effective. However, in order to save users from having to manually reconfigure the combat routine every DB update where the combat routine is broken or not working and must be upgraded. Additionally, if you are not very good with code, it can prevent breaking the plugin.
 
Yeah I can ?reconfig? some stuff but I know very little about code, and I'm getting ready to prove that.. :) I'm having 2 issues that I cant seem to figure out how to fix. I know to post logs/etc but I don?t think its necessary for these 2 issues, but if someone needs them to help me fix let me know and I'll copy/post them.

Issue 1 ? At very beginning of act3, the lead character descends into the armory and goes out the other door into the main town (as it is suppose to), the 3 bots descend into the armory following the leader and don?t know where to go from there. They try to use town portal (as they would) so they can use the banner, but in that area it is not allowed and says: ?Can't do this during a boss encounter? so they just stand around in the armor as the main continues on doing act3.

Issue 2 ? Occasionally my bots say ?Items may need to be repaired / Talking to vendor? (or something like that) and then they just stay there with vendor window open. If I manually click them away they go right back, if I stop and restart them they go right back.

Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks
 
Drazz446 said:
Yeah I can ?reconfig? some stuff but I know very little about code, and I'm getting ready to prove that.. :) I'm having 2 issues that I cant seem to figure out how to fix. I know to post logs/etc but I don?t think its necessary for these 2 issues, but if someone needs them to help me fix let me know and I'll copy/post them.

Issue 1 ? At very beginning of act3, the lead character descends into the armory and goes out the other door into the main town (as it is suppose to), the 3 bots descend into the armory following the leader and don?t know where to go from there. They try to use town portal (as they would) so they can use the banner, but in that area it is not allowed and says: ?Can't do this during a boss encounter? so they just stand around in the armor as the main continues on doing act3.

Issue 2 ? Occasionally my bots say ?Items may need to be repaired / Talking to vendor? (or something like that) and then they just stay there with vendor window open. If I manually click them away they go right back, if I stop and restart them they go right back.

Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks
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I have an idea how to fix the first issue, I just do not know enough about the program to know how to do it. Is it possible to add the lines from rrrixact3 profile to the simplefollow profile (or something to do the same thing) just to make the followers manually walk across the armory after they enter and exit the portal on the other side the same as the leader, then return to running normally?
 
I get the same vendor stuck your talking about, but it only happens in act 3. Act 2 does not do this, have not tested in act 4 since there aren't any good profiles for act 4. Doesn't matter what act3 profile i run i get that vendor stuck quite often.
 
what do i do to stop the leader from trying to keep loading the profile over and over? it lags the crap out of my PC and it doesnt do anything but keep loading the same script over and over?
 
zealot said:
what do i do to stop the leader from trying to keep loading the profile over and over? it lags the crap out of my PC and it doesnt do anything but keep loading the same script over and over?
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Is Allow game restarts enabled? Maybe just keeps reloading when it needs to restart game? Hard to say without logs. Attach log please.
 
My follower is using his banner instead of the leader's banner. Any help?

Thanks in advance!

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Solved - Forgot that the "leader" has to be the "party leader" aswell.. dah!
 
Is there a way to get the follower to follow a non leader. Maybe insert code somewhere to have it follow a specific name character? Thats how d2 follow followers worked. That way we could run a human acct(legit one) and have a follow account following.
 
ectaban said:
Does it works with a human leader ?
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WolfFusionX said:
Is there a way to get the follower to follow a non leader. Maybe insert code somewhere to have it follow a specific name character? Thats how d2 follow followers worked. That way we could run a human acct(legit one) and have a follow account following.
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http://www.thebuddyforum.com/demonb...32380-trinity-compatible-combat-profiles.html

Download the no-combat/no-loot profile. Run that profile on the leader(human) you want to play and your followers will follow.
 
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