BOTS think they are someone else ...

Hey there,

I have been looking into bots for some time when I ran across this one and I was impressed enough to go ahead and give it a shot. Installed them yesterday and it seemed to work alright, they had a few glitches of stupidity but overal, not bad.

Then we started noticing along with stats and the like that the bot came up as another name than what it actually (so if it was named Bubba and I had a player on as Krieg, it thought it was Krieg when the headshot as announced or some such). I tested this in our warcraft 3 server as well and whoa .. I thought, hey this is pretty cool, they've all got different levels and whatnot as well. Nope, they were assuming identities again. This became a real problem when my admins would get on and couldn't use any of the commands because the server thought they were someone else.

Odd and irritating, I'm downloading the latest update now in hopes that it fixes it but I'm kinda doubting it will (and I won't be able to mess with it till this afternoon). So, here is my list of addons for our regular server. You'll see the BOT isn't running right now.

Currently loaded plugins:
description stat pend file vers src load unlod
[ 1] ChickenMod RUN - chicken_mm.dll v1.0.5.1 ini Pause Pause
[ 2] phpua_mm RUN - phpua_mm_i386.dl v1.1.1b ini Start Start
[ 3] AMX RUN - amx_mm.dll v0.9.7 ini ANY ANY
[ 4] CS STATS RUN - csstats_mm.dll v0.9.7 ( cmd ANY ANY
[ 5] FUN RUN - fun_mm.dll v0.9.8 cmd ANY ANY
[ 6] Vexd Util. Modu RUN - vexdum_mm.dll v0.2.0.7 cmd ANY ANY
6 plugins, 6 running


Currently loaded plugins:
name version author file status
[ 1] Admin Base 0.9 default admin.amx running
[ 2] Admin Commands 0.9 default admincmd.amx running
[ 3] Admin Help 0.9 tcquest78 adminhelp.amx running
[ 4] Slots Reservation 0.9.7 default adminslots.amx running
[ 5] Menus Front-End 0.9 default menufront.amx running
[ 6] Commands Menu 0.9 default cmdmenu.amx running
[ 7] Players Menu 0.9 default plmenu.amx running
[ 8] Restrict Weapons 0.9.6.1 default restmenu.amx running
[ 9] Maps Menu 0.9 default mapsmenu.amx running
[ 10] Anti Flood 0.9 default antiflood.amx running
[ 11] Admin Chat 0.9 default adminchat.amx running
[ 12] Admin Votes 0.9 default adminvote.amx running
[ 13] NextMap 0.9 default nextmap.amx running
[ 14] TimeLeft 0.9 default timeleft.amx running
[ 15] Nextmap chooser 0.9 default mapchooser.amx running
[ 16] Scrolling Message 0.9 default scrollmsg.amx running
[ 17] Info. Messages 0.9 default imessage.amx running
[ 18] Welcome Message 0.9 default welcomemsg.amx running
[ 19] Teleport Menu 0.9 default telemenu.amx running
[ 20] Pause Plugins 0.9 default pausecfg.amx running
[ 21] AMX Mod Chicken Build # [ChickenMod] Dev amx_chicken.amx running
[ 22] AMX Respawn 0.9.4 f117bomb respawn.amx running
[ 23] Weapon Arena 1.1b jghg weaponarena.amx running
[ 24] Plugin Gore 1.0 mike_cao gore.amx running
[ 25] Weapon Arena 1.1b jghg weaponarena.amx running
[ 26] Admin Bury 0.9.3 f117bomb admin_bury.amx running
[ 27] AMX Spank2 0.9.3 261.recongamer.c amx_spank2.amx running
[ 28] Idiot Model chnag 1.00 IJs amx_idiot.amx running
[ 29] PSRank 1.1 DynAstY psrank.amx running
29 plugins, 29 running

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Originally Posted by Frustrated Father

Then we started noticing along with stats and the like that the bot came up as another name than what it actually (so if it was named Bubba and I had a player on as Krieg, it thought it was Krieg when the headshot as announced or some such).

I'm sorry, but even after reading this for 5 times I didn't quite understand you. Maybe it's me or maybe this passage is really not well expressed, but in any case I would welcome a more understandable expanation.
1. "Stats and the like" - you mean the cs stats plugin? Where did you notice something? In the map end stats? During a game? When and where in game?
2. "the bot came up as another name" - What do you mean, "came up"? Where did the bot come up? And what made you think that it should have a different name (or, the other way round, what made you think that the stats displayed for this bot were actually the stats of some other player)? I'm not even sure if that's what you wanted to say...
3. "it thought it was Krieg when the headshot as announced or some such" - errrr, yes. o_O Well, what's the first "it"? cs stats? And what's the second "it"? The bot you named Bubba? Where was the headshot announced? Do you mean you saw Bubba make a headshot, and StatsMe showed that Krieg had made a headie?

Originally Posted by Frustrated Father

Odd and irritating, I'm downloading the latest update now in hopes that it fixes it but I'm kinda doubting it will

Very unlikely. No coder said so far thet he was going to fix your bug.

Besides, don't you think it's a bit short-sighted to run a total of 35 plugins all together and blame the bot plugin if something doesn't work? Did you even try to deactivate other plugins and test just the bot plugin? And then, did you activate the other plugins one by one to see from which point on something went wrong? Did you try a different order in the plugins.ini? (stats plugin first, then the bot, or maybe just the other way round...)

All I know is that several ppl seem to have this bot up & running together with StatsMe and AMX, and they never reported anything like this.

[MarD]

Heyyo,

I have the same prob. What he means it that sometimes a CT bot becomes a T bot on the opposing team... well, not exactly, but they like, combine... It's odd. Like, if you're dead, and they're not, and you cycle through the players, and you sometimes have to left-click twice to get to the next player cause it won't go to the combined player.

Also, sometimes the teamnames are messed. Like, sometimes it says the CT team, and then overwrites the Terrorist Team name with CT Team again. so it looks like there's 2 CT teams, and no T teams.

[sPlOrYgOn]

Don't worry anymore about this problem.
the next release of AMX (not AMXx) will have it fixed!

[MarD]

Heyyo,

Hmm, ok, guess I need to add amx to my plugins lists... cause I don't use amx.

I'm using CS 1.5 metamod 1.17, and statsme 2.7.1... I tried 2.8.3, but it won't log accuracy, and headshots, n' other stuff....

[biohazerd87]

Originally Posted by Frustrated Father

they had a few glitches of stupidity but overal, not bad.

Whoa man take it easy lol