[PAID] Pet Battle Studio: Warlords of Draenor

[mymegabot]

Any chance you would elaborate on what your next project will be?

Sales may pick up during Legion. That is true. Right now we are in deepest sales hole that can possibly exist, because we are in the aftermath of a banwave and two tripwire events and in a terrible WoW content drought with subscriptions being extremely low.

I will have to let the whole situation sink in for a bit. Right now I am not objective. I just see the amount of work I put in and I am still recovering from it, before I dive full-force into the next project. I am not really whining about the situation, just trying to open the eyes of a few people, who think this is all so easy. I get that we live in a "give me everything for free and I will demand even more" culture (not talking about you). And I see the same thing in my game development business. But tell you what, if the sales don't pick up, I may just as well remove the -50% sticker and leave the prices at that level. Better to have few sales than next to none. I already reimbursed the four people that cared to buy my stuff during the first day, so there wouldn't be any harm done. And I know that my next project will blow everyone out of the water and sales won't be an issue anymore, provided that Honorbuddy still exists, when it is release time.

 

[slator]

Here's a log that illustrates the problem when trying to interact with legendary pets (during questing).

Not sure what (if anything) changed, since I didn't notice any profile updates pushed.... but this appears to be working fine today!

 

[ArChi]

Sales may pick up during Legion. That is true. Right now we are in deepest sales hole that can possibly exist, because we are in the aftermath of a banwave and two tripwire events and in a terrible WoW content drought with subscriptions being extremely low.

I will have to let the whole situation sink in for a bit. Right now I am not objective. I just see the amount of work I put in and I am still recovering from it, before I dive full-force into the next project. I am not really whining about the situation, just trying to open the eyes of a few people, who think this is all so easy. I get that we live in a "give me everything for free and I will demand even more" culture (not talking about you). And I see the same thing in my game development business. But tell you what, if the sales don't pick up, I may just as well remove the -50% sticker and leave the prices at that level. Better to have few sales than next to none. I already reimbursed the four people that cared to buy my stuff during the first day, so there wouldn't be any harm done. And I know that my next project will blow everyone out of the water and sales won't be an issue anymore, provided that Honorbuddy still exists, when it is release time.

It is interesting news
Very much looking forward
for me this before no contact pet battle
you now have put me blow me out of the water on this project

 

[Mike Li]

Very odd. It does work for my beta testers and myself. But your log clearly indicates that it doesn't. I will look into it.

Oh and please don't paste log excerpts into the thread. They pollute the thread by making it harder to read for all other users.

any update of this? I tried the Outland one and has the same problem as expected.
I have HB clean install, use the launcher and disable streaming of any plugin and bot-base from buddy store but it still the same problem.
If yours is working correctly, maybe it is because some plugin missing? oh, I have the studio companion enabled of course.

 

[Studio60]

any update of this? I tried the Outland one and has the same problem as expected.
I have HB clean install, use the launcher and disable streaming of any plugin and bot-base from buddy store but it still the same problem.
If yours is working correctly, maybe it is because some plugin missing? oh, I have the studio companion enabled of course.

There is no other dependency apart from the Studio Companion, but I really have a tough time figuring this one out.

I tried using it with the beta and live versions, with different rarities and with different products enabled. It worked every time as intended. The bot moves on as soon as he has a pet of the desired rarity. Do you have "Allow Release" activated? I got a screenshot from one of my beta testers and he has the same issue. So I am trying to figure out what the difference between our setups is.

Have you tried both clearing your cache and maybe even performing a clean installation (Guide: How to clear your Cache, Guide: How to perform a clean Installation)?

 

[Studio60]

Any chance you would elaborate on what your next project will be?

It is interesting news
Very much looking forward
for me this before no contact pet battle
you now have put me blow me out of the water on this project

You will have to wait a little bit longer. I need to get through the pre-expansion patch first and then I will see where the project stands. I don't want to announce something again and then leave everyone hanging for 2-3 months.

 

[Studio60]

any update of this? I tried the Outland one and has the same problem as expected.
I have HB clean install, use the launcher and disable streaming of any plugin and bot-base from buddy store but it still the same problem.
If yours is working correctly, maybe it is because some plugin missing? oh, I have the studio companion enabled of course.

Alright, I figured it out. The check for completion was for "Do I have at least the number of pets that are required (Wild Pets to Keep) and are all pets at least of the Minimum Capture Quality".

If "Allow Release" is disabled, the bot will always have a lower quality pet in the journal that will never meet the requirement, so the profile continues indefinitely. That condition will be fixed in the next release, but until then it should be good enough for you to enable this option.

 

[Rogtrainer]

Hello Studio60,

I have a Question!

Why Farms my Charakter not Pets? I need so the pets: Load a Capture - "Amberbarb Wasp - Gorgrond"

And the Bot give me a ->

Error Message:

[Pet Battle Studio]: Activating Pet Battle Hooks.
[Pet Battle Studio]: Setting pet battle mode to Capture / Auto.
[Pet Battle Studio]: This profile has missing requirements and can not be run in Capture mode:
[Pet Battle Studio]: - You do not have the required pets to run this profile.
Bot stopping! Reason: This profile has missing requirements and can not be run.
[Pet Battle Studio]: Deactivating Pet Battle Hooks.

What should I do so that the profile works? I have just taken the first day trial.
Because I have all of them profile of Raid Studio and am very excited. But PetBattles will not work.

 

[Studio60]

Hello Studio60,
What should I do so that the profile works? I have just taken the first day trial.
Because I have all of them profile of Raid Studio and am very excited. But PetBattles will not work.

I don't really know how to answer this question with the information I have. The bot usually refuses to run a profile in capture mode when you don't have pets strong enough to beat them. Amberbarb Wasps team up with a multitude of pets. Cockroaches, Gold Beetles, Marmots, Silkbead Snails, Leopard Tree Frogs, Wood Wasps, Twilight Wasps, Amberbarb Wasps and Junglebeak. Lots of flyers in there. So the bot is probably looking for ... magic pets on level 25. The bot is pretty good at figuring out if you have a strong enough team for the enemy. What about the other profiles? Are they available if you check the Companion window (Pet Battles > Capture > Profiles)?

You are also a long-time customer. You know that I like logs. Please add them to your post so I can help you better.

 

[Rogtrainer]

Thank you for your quick response.

Ok i checked now - Companion window - Pet Battles > Capture > Profiles.

With a Pet It just works that appeared to me also yellow. Other Pets are where listed there but .. are gray highlighted.

Screenshot :>

 

[Studio60]

Thank you for your quick response.

Ok i checked now - Companion window - Pet Battles > Capture > Profiles.

With a Pet It just works that appeared to me also yellow. Other Pets are where listed there but .. are gray highlighted.

Do you have any pets leveled to 25? Because the bot can not fight level 25 pets if you don't have any. The Teroclaw Hatchling profile does not require pet battling. That is why it is not greyed out.

 

[Rogtrainer]

View attachment 15540 2016-07-18 16.39.txtNo I have no Level 25 Pets.
only level 1er Pets and 1 Level 5 Series Pet
I would like to Draenor pets but farms will not work.

Ok here is the logfile. Bot Stopped alltime.

 

[Studio60]

View attachment 204724No I have no Level 25 Pets.
only level 1er Pets and 1 Level 5 Series Pet
I would like to Draenor pets but farms will not work.

Ok here is the logfile. Bot Stopped alltime.

Yeah.. you won't get anywhere from the looks of it.

Boosted leveling would level your pets from 5-25 in Draenor and it requires at least 2 pets on 25 which you don't have.
Relative leveling would level your pets from 24-25 in Draenor, because there are no lower level pets around.
Capture mode requires pets of an appropriate level which again is 24-25 in Draenor.

I have to leave my office in a few minutes for an evening engagement, but join me on Discord later (or tomorrow). The link is in my signature. Maybe we can work something out.

What happened here is basically like you creating a level 1 character and wondering why it can't do Draenor raids with it. But you are a long-time customer so let's talk about this on Discord.

 

[slator]

Doing a boosted level on 1 pet... it's missing opportunities to capture upgrades.

Capture Settings under Boosted Leveling:
- Allow Capture: ON
- Min Capture Quality: Rare
- Always Capture Missing Pets: ON
- Pets Per Species: 2
- Allow Release: ON
- Allow Forfeit: OFF

In my specific scenario, I had 2 uncommon "Forest Spiderling". It came across a rare Forest Spiderling but did not attempt to capture it. Are my settings wrong for this type of scenario?

View attachment 1952 2016-07-18 13.17-scrubbed.txt

 

[Mike Li]

Alright, I figured it out. The check for completion was for "Do I have at least the number of pets that are required (Wild Pets to Keep) and are all pets at least of the Minimum Capture Quality".

If "Allow Release" is disabled, the bot will always have a lower quality pet in the journal that will never meet the requirement, so the profile continues indefinitely. That condition will be fixed in the next release, but until then it should be good enough for you to enable this option.

That makes sense, let me give it a try and see if it moves on with the setting you mentioned.
This makes me more confident to buy the rest profiles

 

[ArChi]

View attachment 204724No I have no Level 25 Pets.
only level 1er Pets and 1 Level 5 Series Pet
I would like to Draenor pets but farms will not work.

Ok here is the logfile. Bot Stopped alltime.

Hello

Your situation same with me just share my solution
Use Ultimate Battle-Training Stone to lv up my first 25lv pet,(if you have so many lv100 Character and lv3 Garrison you can get many Ultimate Battle-Training Stone for lvup pet)
and goto AH buy 2~3 25lv pet, than i have 3~5 25lv pet
now your can use Boosted leveling level your pets from 5-25 in Draenor

 

[Studio60]

Doing a boosted level on 1 pet... it's missing opportunities to capture upgrades.

Capture Settings under Boosted Leveling:
- Allow Capture: ON
- Min Capture Quality: Rare
- Always Capture Missing Pets: ON
- Pets Per Species: 2
- Allow Release: ON
- Allow Forfeit: OFF

In my specific scenario, I had 2 uncommon "Forest Spiderling". It came across a rare Forest Spiderling but did not attempt to capture it. Are my settings wrong for this type of scenario?

View attachment 204727

From looking at your log, I think this happening due to the pets just dying too fast when being attacked by a level 25 pet with a type advantage. The pet probably never went into the 35% health capture range. Those type advantages are used, because the primary purpose of boosted leveling is gaining XP and killing enemies as fast as it can. Capturing is a side effect in thet mode.

The sad thing is, that there is not really a way to fix this. I have no way of figuring out how much damage an attack will do. I tried reading those data from the game, but that would come down to parsing the tooltips which is not easy due to the different game languages. Then I tried reading them from the battle.net API, but Blizzards states there, that they have no way of presenting those values since they vary with level, rarity and type advantages. And even if I had the data it would require a significant remodeling of the product. The bot does not really think turns in advance. That seemed to be overkill. Tactics are based on a fallthrough algorithm until one ability fits a certain condition. Doing elaborate maneuvers like "switch to pet 2, use ability 1 then switch to pet 3, use ability 2, hope enemy doesn't heal, then use trap" are very error prone if created dynamically. And I assume with 700+ abilities and 700+ pets in the game working through that data recursively would lead to immensely long calculations when there is a capture mode to fix the situation. Those tactics work fine with a fixed set of enemies, but not for dynamic enemy teams.

Boosted leveling focuses on leveling and captures pets if possible. Capture mode however blocks for example certain multi-turn abilities to prevent killing damage and uses pets like the turnip to increase the success rate.

 

[Studio60]

Hello

Your situation same with me just share my solution
Use Ultimate Battle-Training Stone to lv up my first 25lv pet,(if you have so many lv100 Character and lv3 Garrison you can get many Ultimate Battle-Training Stone for lvup pet)
and goto AH buy 2~3 25lv pet, than i have 3~5 25lv pet
now your can use Boosted leveling level your pets from 5-25 in Draenor

Seeing all those makes it clear I need to add more text to my product descriptions. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[ArChi]

Seeing all those makes it clear I need to add more text to my product descriptions. Sorry for the confusion.

it is ok, your UI design is easy to use and know
just want to share my experience
maybe some ppl same with me didn't hava one LV25 pets cannot use Boosted leveling
hope that can help everyone quickly use Boosted leveling

 

[Studio60]

it is ok, your UI design is easy to use and know
just want to share my experience
maybe some ppl same with me didn't hava one LV25 pets cannot use Boosted leveling
hope that can help everyone quickly use Boosted leveling

I have already added some "red text" to the product description to make the level ranges clearer. Since I expect a bit of downtime tomorrow before we get the new HB release, I will work on a way to update product descriptions automatically. That will make it a lot easier to add more information to it. Typing all the pet names and profile names by hand is annoying to say the least and if I use my own profile database to generate those texts, I can easily provide more information. Thank you for providing those tips.