HB ARCHIVES: Feedback for Honorbuddy Improvements--DO NOT DELETE!

I would definitely go with BGbuddy. Since this bot has taken off, there are a number of bg botters in the game. We all do the same exact route, in line of each other. It is VERY easy to spot who's botting. I would suggest quite a few more routes to where not all of the bots are running to the exact same places. Kind of just randomize the next route for the bot.

 

Hi, Slimwaffle,

This is the major difference between the "Combat Bot" and the (HB-shipped) "Raid Bot":

• Combat Bot does 'targeting' and 'movement'
• Raid Bot does not

Sounds like you want to use Raid Bot. You've also got the additional (third-party) options of LazyRaider and Tyrael.

Also, Starbrox is spot on. Many Combat Routines provide configuration as to whether they should 'switch targets' while in combat.

cherers,
chinajade

 

Hi, Nateshaw, and welcome aboard.

Honorbuddy ships with ProfessionBuddy which does precisely what you describe. We've even got an entire sub-forum dedicated to profiles for it.

Ref: Honorbuddy:Bots Provided by Bossland GmbH​

As to Arenas, that's never going to happen. More info here:

HelpDesk: Honorbuddy and Arenas​

cheers,
chinajade

 

Hi, Thepro27,

We've actually got quite a few bug reports / feature requests against BGBuddy. The senior development staff understands the importance of improving this bot. The BGBuddy requests are prioritized into the same overall, global priority list as all the other Honorbuddy shortcomings. In short, we can give no ETA on when the improvements might be available. But, they are most definitely on the radar.

cheers,
chinajade

 

Can you add support for using flying mounts as ground mounts? I would like to use my Warforged Nightmare for both.

 

So what I like to see improved is combat routine, I want to be on the top of heals and DPS. Also I would like to see better walking routine cuz ppl know that u are a bot, I have been kick out of things and i hate it.

 

Hi, NavyAV89,

Honorbuddy used to allow flying mounts as ground mounts. But, doing so introduces all kinds of boundary condition problems. As such, the mount types must be kept distinct—ground mounts for ground navigation, and flying mounts for flying.

When we have some time, the issue may be re-investigated to see if there is a better way to handle the boundary conditions. But, that is not likely to happen any time soon.

cheers,
chinajade

 

Hi, Urnxtguy, and welcome aboard,

Singular is the Combat Routine that ships with Honorbuddy. It is built to handle the PvE environment, which is significantly more difficult for a combat routine to handle competently than PvP. Singular is capable of switching its behavior based on its current environment:

• Dungeons solo
• Dungeons in party
• Questing solo
• Questing in party
• PvP
• etc.

Bobby53 is always improving Singular. But, because Singular is so encompassing, it would probably never be the best PvP choice. But thanks to Honorbuddy's open architecture, you've got many more Combat Routines to select for your purpose, or you can write your own.

You should probably know that at one time, Combat Routines were being a little "too awesome". For instance, 100% interrupting an enemy player EVERY time. This is a great way to get you WoWaccount banned through player reports. Fortunately, I know of no Combat Routine that is quite this awesome today. They've all gone to being a little more 'human like' and being slow or missing interrupts every so often (intentionally).

Designing a Combat Routine is not easy. Getting to the top of the 'DPS/Heals" list without being called out for botting is a delicate act. Our priority is to preserve your WoWaccount.


As far as the "walking routine"...
Honorbuddy does a decent job navigating. We've got a feature request already recorded to improve the pathing of BGBuddy. If there are other contexts in which you believe pathing is inadequate, we'll need to know the specific details.


All that said...
Botting is a 'power tool'. You can be careless and cut off your hand (i.e., get your WoWaccount banned) using it. Or, you can learn to 'bot smart'. Like any power tool, you must learn to master it. Know where its weaknesses are, and accommodate them.

cheers,
chinajade

 

Would be nice to swap routines without having to restart HB

 

It is tracked as HB-30 ("Allow the user to change routines without restart") already. Enhancements have lower priority than bugfixes, so we can't tell you at the moment when it will come.

 

I would like to propose to better dungeon farming.

What i have in mind:
Using the Dungeonbuddy bot a user should be able to chose what dungeon or dungeons he wish to farm by selecting them from a drop down menu and such the bot will farm the dungeons endlessly, mailing and vendoring should be supported.
I am proposing this because right now we use Questing bot and advance as it is resurrecting after dead is bugs the bot and stucks the character. And lets be honest DC's, crashes and lag spikes do happen. As far as i can see Dungeon resurrection works if its using dungeonbuddy it would be nice if dungeon farming solo becomes part of Dungeonbuddy

 

Would be really nice if we could have a changelog (doesn't need something overcomplicated just something simple like this https://couchpota.to/updates/changelog.html) so we can easily track fixes, pending bugs that we report and were it was pushed into and other related stuff.

Right now I know that there is a downloadable changelog file on the beta builds and aside from the latest we have to dig around piles of split threads to see any other changelogs which we actually might not be able to see since archived files can't be downloaded I think. If we have a page for that we can easily browse and search at the page by the version, issue number, etc and see how its going.

Or perhaps there is something but I am not aware of so kindly point me if there is one

 

Is there anyway you could implement a time cap on how much you wanna bot for? For instance, it would at least minimize the amount bans that could potentially happen? Say I wanna bot for 2 hours today, I just set the time for 2 hours and let the bot run and after 2 hours it would try to accurately place me in an area where I'm not getting attacked, or just uses hearthstone after quest. Just something along those lines and logs out. That way, people don't get banned because I forgot to turn off my bot kinda of dealio.

 

Check the plugin area for "logmeout" or "HBRelog" they both can achieve that.

 

I'm always crashing Honorbuddy and sometimes wow too when I use PB + BG buddy on mixed mode. Don't know if anyone else experiences this but it has happened since the beginning of my HB exp.

 

I have talked to a few of you core developers on skype about this allready but I thought I would make a formal request here.
What I would like to be implemented is a HB chat channel.
This is a chat channel that would work like WoW addon channel.
The channel has no GUI and is never showned to any user at any time.
When you auth HB you would at the same time connect to this channel.
For security reasons no character names would never ever be sent over this channel.
This channel would be for us developers.
After arguing with myself on how to solve all security issues and to make it work for only your own sessions I sugest 3 prefix.

Prefix 1 : When you auth your honorbuddy session you are automaticly linked to your buddyauth (I guess), so prefix 1 would be your buddyauth, now this make it so that you can only communicate with your own sessions.
Prefix 2 : This is for users with alot of sessions. This should have a default name, but a user can log into his buddyauth page and add prefixes, then when you start HB a popup (like when you have multiple CC's) you select what prefix you want that session to use.
Prefix 3 : Developer prefix, this is the prefix that we developers decide what it is to send/get information between our own sessions.

So as an example of a message that could appear on the chat channel:

PHP:

<MyBuddyAuthName> <default> <MyCustomBotBase> gotoloc 1,2,3


Now if all 3 prefix is correct for your session then (if the botbase is coded correctly) all sessions would move to said location.

What is the impact on the user ?
Well none, the channel is hidden, no user (or developer) will ever see it, if you as a user haven't added custom prefixes on your buddyauth page you wouldn't even know it existed (unless you read the patch notes )

What is the benefits for us developers ?
It would be a huge benefit for us developers as we can safly send/recieve information on your other sessions.
As an example, when to make a rafquester.
You can request to see if the others sessions have picked up quest, solved quest, go to specific location and wait for everyone to gather up before returning quests etc etc etc.

As the chatchannel is completly hidden and there is on GUI for it (except for core developers) this can't be abused, no developer can use it to get information about anyone else, core filtering would be that you only react to your own buddyauth prefix, and what that prefix is can never be requested, the only prefix that could be checked (from a developers standpoint) is the 3rd prefix.

PHP:

if(prefix == myCustomBotBase) {
  if(arg1 == "gotoloc") {
    MoveTo(arg2);
  }
}


Silly example but to prove my point on what the developer have to work with and what he can check.

 

Id like to see a "set bags to full" button as many profiles trigger events when bags are full, and this would help in certain occasions.

 

Could we get a checkbox in the questing-bot-settings, that lets us disable the vendor hook?
With some profiles, this really causes trouble and stucks and there seems not be a possibility to disable this at the moment.

 

I know it sounds crazy, but I am botting mostly on my 8 inch windows tablet using mobile data.
Honorbuddy is mostly very good at what I am using it for. However, it requires a little babystting from time to time.

In this specific 'on the go' setting, I have no access to a mouse or a keyboard, which is a huge pain to tap the little down arrow to pause or resume the bot for a little maintanance job. For some profile, accidental tap on stop screw things up big time.

If the pause button can be bigger and a seperate button from stop one, it will improve my quality of life greatly.

Sorry for the insane request. lol

 

You could use one of the bot plugins like sharpmessage to send commands such as start or stop