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So, I'm assuming sitting does nothing for HP/MP recovery rate?
I'm fairly new to this game so I'm still figuring out basics like these

can I setup if checks for target debuffs and stack ammounts to setup decent dps rotations for my knight?

Administrator wrote:Check the timing in CPlayer:cast(). If it takes that long between casts, I assume you're lagging quite a bit and it's messing up the timing between casts.

Administrator wrote:

So, I'm assuming sitting does nothing for HP/MP recovery rate?
I'm fairly new to this game so I'm still figuring out basics like these

Pretty much. Sitting is useless. There's no point to it when it does almost nothing for you and potions are easily and cheaply available.

can I setup if checks for target debuffs and stack ammounts to setup decent dps rotations for my knight?

Yes, kind of. But it is going to require a lot of modification. I had added some code to automatically acquire buff/debuff information for the player and his target, but it resulted in performance issues. You could maybe look at the function for updating buffs/debuffs in pawn.lua and player.lua.

Administrator wrote:The calls to the function to prep that data has been disabled because of reasons before. If you want to use it, you'll have to call that function on the player's target (target = player:getTarget(); target:updateBuffs()).

Administrator wrote:Check the timing in CPlayer:cast(). If it takes that long between casts, I assume you're lagging quite a bit and it's messing up the timing between casts.

So, I'm assuming sitting does nothing for HP/MP recovery rate?
I'm fairly new to this game so I'm still figuring out basics like these

Pretty much. Sitting is useless. There's no point to it when it does almost nothing for you and potions are easily and cheaply available.

Administrator wrote:Check the timing in CPlayer:cast(). If it takes that long between casts, I assume you're lagging quite a bit and it's messing up the timing between casts.

self.LastCastTime = getTime() + self.CastTime*1000;

Can I call it right from there (my profile xml)? or should I perhaps embed it somewhere in the player cast part of the player lua (and could I then only use the target.Debuffs("whatever") right in the xml after that?

<onSkillCast>
if( arg1.Name == "CLASS_SKILLNAME" ) then
  local target = player:getTarget();
  target:updateBuffs();

  if( target.Debuffs["Something"] ) then
    player:cast("CLASS_SOMESKILL");
  end
end
</onSkillCast>

@admin: I have problems with the 'getTime()' function. That returns a table value? So I can't do

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self.LastCastTime = getTime() + self.CastTime*1000;

Is there another function to get a ms time value?

local timeDifference = deltaTime(getTime(), self.LastCastTime); -- get the difference in miliseconds
if( timeDifference*1000 > self.CastTime ) then
  -- do something
end

Administrator wrote:

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local timeDifference = deltaTime(getTime(), self.LastCastTime); -- get the difference in miliseconds
if( timeDifference*1000 > self.CastTime ) then
  -- do something
end

Administrator wrote:

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<onSkillCast>
if( arg1.Name == "CLASS_SKILLNAME" ) then
  local target = player:getTarget();
  target:updateBuffs();

  if( target.Debuffs["Something"] ) then
    player:cast("CLASS_SOMESKILL");
  end
end
</onSkillCast>

Esiw wrote:mana conservative... I still can't figure out how to make spell casting better though, maybe it waits until the game tells you it's done casting, even if you can start casting earlier than that (which is what I assumed to be latency)- I've been trying a couple of things to make it attempt to start casting faster (through for example, a difftime with -500 or so on skill.casttime but I don't think I'm doing it right)

Esiw wrote:I can't figure out any way for it to stop using those abilities randomly ASWELL as accoarding to my onSkillCast (if I add something like inbattle="false" then it will ignore my onSkillCast instructions, if I move the abilities to <hotkey> and change it to key=" then I get the same results.

printf("%s\n", variabletosee);

d003232 wrote:

Esiw wrote:I can't figure out any way for it to stop using those abilities randomly ASWELL as accoarding to my onSkillCast (if I add something like inbattle="false" then it will ignore my onSkillCast instructions, if I move the abilities to <hotkey> and change it to key=" then I get the same results.

I don't unserstand what you mean with 'randomly'? The event could only have effects after the correconding skills are used. You could add some

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printf("%s\n", variabletosee);

into the event to see, when it is used? And you could post the according MM window content if there is something wrong.

d003232 wrote:

Esiw wrote:mana conservative... I still can't figure out how to make spell casting better though, maybe it waits until the game tells you it's done casting, even if you can start casting earlier than that (which is what I assumed to be latency)- I've been trying a couple of things to make it attempt to start casting faster (through for example, a difftime with -500 or so on skill.casttime but I don't think I'm doing it right)

I will add a new SVN version this evening, where you can set a 'minus x ms' factor to cast a little earlier. And you are right. The 'self.Casting' flag could also be a handicap. But first I wan't to see the effect from using internaly ms instead of sec.

Esiw wrote: So it's SEEMINGLY random

I'm not saying that the current way it's handeled is wrong or anything, Administrator mentioned earlier that he had the mechanics for a debuff check in place but it caused performance issues- I'm assuming that the current state of the bot is just the other way of dealing with that problem versus the game mechanics.