I have made major strides and breakthroughs such as auto detection of party members, using hotspots/factions/avoidmob tags in profiles. With what I have learned it may be another week or so, but this thing will probably be release in all its gloriousness. Things left to do: Add corpse recovery (easy, alreadey in follower addon) Add code so leader will come to the rescue of a party member and interact in various ways (currently just waits for them to catch up) Add other party useful features Will be added after release, hopefully: Add repair capability Add Sell capabilities Add other unforseen options Keep in mind I plan on adding most of these functions to both the leader and the follower plugin, so some rewriting of the follower plugin will be required, but should not be to bad. Unfortunatly I think it is a limitation of HB to do this properly, you have to either have the communicate either via chat or via network or some kind of interface (Which is both way beyond me and beyond my interest, bot questing is a horrible idea in my opinion anyway)
Major update, much improved Leader section and minor changes to the follower portion. There probably will be bugs, and some improvements made, but this is much better than what HB offers (which is nothing) Let me know of any bugs/improvements you would like, and NO I am not and probably will not make a questing version of this
I could tell I was tired, took a nap and went back and looked at some of the code and had a few "WTF was I thinking" moments. Fixed some major bugs, should work pretty dang good now.
I have yet to try this but am intrigued at the possibilities. Say I am a prot pally and I have my mage/dk/healers/etc bots. Would I be able to set my tank as leader, turn off movement in my cc and then lead my 4 bots through a dungeon? Just wondering...Thanks for your work!
I Doubt the Leader part would work in a instance, But the follower part should work just fine, keep in mind though all healing is handled by the cc! So if it dosnt heal properly nothing I will be able to do about it.
Excellent work my friend. It appears i have the pre-nap version, but after some tweaking i got it working again. Recommending it to everyone on the honorbuddy irc channel. I have been using this for two nights now.
I appreciate the compliments. Ya, I dunno how much of it you got working on the pre-nap version, but a couple of the problems was the fact that if you had some player targeted when you started it, it would just sit there, and another is the party protections bit did not work, It wasn't looking at the proper stuff for it to know when someone was in trouble, as well if you had a caster as leader it would get all wonkified. 3.1 fixes all of that
Another update with a bunch of code fixes, also merged both plugins and botbases together for both follower and leader, now when selecting follower/leader you can do it from just the front panel now. Read first post on how/where to change settings now.
[FONT="]Recently discovered that corpse recovery dosen't work right when both sides die, HB cant cope when a partymember goes outside its detection range and starts throwing all kinds of errors, I have ideas on how to fix this but its going to take some time, so for now don't use this unattended.[/FONT]
When grinding using Multibox Leader on the party leader and Multibox Follower running on the 2nd toon trailing behind him, the leader always loots regardless of settings. I saw a provision to enable/disable looting on the Follower, but no options for the Leader. Ideally I would like to use this as its working now but with looting completely disabled on both toons... if this is possible through editing some lines please let me know. You're definitely on the right track here, good work amigo
I made a booboo on the last change, was at work and couldnt test it. Here it is fixed, with a little bit added to it, now have to declare how many party members you have in the leader bot. It has no benefit now but will in the future. Did not give it a new version number
Thank you for the quick adjustment, I'll try it out and report back what kind of joy the new version gives me... thanks again!
Im on the verge of releasing a new version that fixes the corpse and loot bugs that exist. Should not be to much longer hopefully, just trying to fine tune it.
update 3.4, fixed leader looting issues and also much improved the corpse retrieval on both leader and followers, read first post for more info. I am sure there will be something I overlooked, so let me know.
Hah! This is awesome. Just tested this in a couple instances using my prot pally as leader bot and my mage as follower. Turned off all movement with my pally cc and I just lead my mage and I through the instance and he followed right along and assisted me the whole way. Granted it was a WotLK instance but I was just testing the concept. Hoping to try this in a Cat instance with a group sometime to see what happens then. Thanks again for your work! Excellent job so far.
Very cool, did u get a chance to test the corpse recovery while in there? I havnt been able to test that yet
Unfortunately not yet as my chars were 85 and we rolled through it. Maybe I will suicide once and see if it works out.
First of all just wanted to thank you again for this awesome addon, i have used it to 31 in about 4 days, not running it but a few hours a night. I thought i would let you know a few of my experiences with it. Corpse Retrieval is still kind of iffy. Most of the time neither character makes a run to their corpse. It occasionally hangs with the leader being to far ahead of the follower, and the follower saying it is close enough. If i just bump my mouse it starts going again. I will keep you up to date on anything else i notice. After these two i am doing two more, so i can keep trying it out for a while for you.
