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Why are all bots switching to castaway from tank? castaway doesnt bane like tank does, I was trying to become self sufficent now I will drop creature and life and spc item so I can bane self with 7's. Is it Maddy that you are just trying to change to game or don't know hoe to programme banes or just hate people and want to hurt their game plays.
Yay yaya ya I know get self sufficent but this is not the olympics this is a game and you have reduced my fun time. Not having banes - you really get ripped up more. Just my 2 cents - I know you are right and everyone else is wrong.
Additionally there is only seconds to set up an account with bot, you can't put in commands until 1st time you pay, if there is a line you literally have seconds to pay and set up an account, Then you are back at the end of the line anyway -
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What is the issue with banes that you don't like? We do listen to suggestions on the Castaway dev team (I'm just the vocal member).
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Castaway does banes - what was the problem?
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i think its the fact that he does not know how to tell the bot how to bane:)
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Tiviee posted:
Why are all bots switching to castaway from tank?
I'm not.
The only think that I wish ElTank did was Brill, but then again, I can live without that.
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I should point out Castaway doesn't do a lot of things like El Tank does, and for various reasonos. Mainly because that is how Once Bitten wanted to do it. The original intent for armor baning was for the bot to open the trade window, not the player (I just looked at the old source to verify this). So if that is the complaint, sorry about that.
We'll be making some changes to a how armor baning works on user feedback though.
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<< Additionally there is only seconds to set up an account with bot, you can't put in commands until 1st time you pay, if there is a line you literally have seconds to pay and set up an account, Then you are back at the end of the line anyway >>
Sneak in a paymeant while the bot is buffing, will create your account.
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Castaway is much better than EL Tank.. it may take more time to set up the buffbot, but is (to me) a whole lot easier for the user to get buffs
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It takes more time if you want to customize your spec/spells, but other then that click a button to set your default wand, enter your portals, and pretty much set to go for most people.
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Another thing that some may not have even noticed yet Maddy is that we have expanded the self buffing profiles to include all of the "other" profiles that were only available to "bufee's" not the buffbot. This was done in response to user feedback. Many of the people using castaway wanted to be able to buff themselves with full profiles as well as be available to buff others while they were out hunting.
As a cop once told me when I told him I didnt realize I couldnt go 70 in a 30 zone. "Ingnorance of the Law is no excuse son"...If Tivee doesnt know how to use something, all they have to do is ask.
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Yup, with Stoic Enchanter gone, I've been using Castaway for my self-buffing needs now.
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I cant comment on it being faster or slower Anton, But I dont see how you could get any faster than ELTank to start a buff sequence.
You tell BuffBot, "Mage"
You tell BuffBot, "Buff"
Or for banes as well.
You tell BuffBot, "Mage"
You tell BuffBot, "Olthoibane"
Open trade, put in armour, close trade.
You tell BuffBot, "Buff"
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<< I cant comment on it being faster or slower Anton, But I dont see how you could get any faster than ELTank to start a buff sequence.
You tell BuffBot, "Mage"
You tell BuffBot, "Buff" >>
Easy, like this:
You tell BuffBot, "Mage"
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But then you couldn't add any extra profiles if you wanted, or correct any mistakes (You tell BuffBot, "clear").
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Most of the profiles are all inclusive, and we have a queue system so you can add as many buffs to the queue as permitted by the bot user. Plus there is a remove command for removing yourself from the queue.
Different approaches to buff bot is all.
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Things I like about Castaway:
Brill
Status advertisement with low level thresholds
Compatible with It! EULA
Things I like about Tankbot:
Simple ingame profile editing
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<< Simple ingame profile editing >>
Castaway does lack that.
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If you are xml savvy then it is not a problem, even if you aren't xml savvy then it's still not a HUGE issue.
But I get scared anytime I'm editing XML. Like something I type is going to make my computer go nuclear...
The only reason I bring it up is I have several characters that have unique profiles and I can't seem to get the singles from the menu to work, so I end up casting the spells manually.
A for instance, my item only xbower has all critters on armor except crossbow. He even has some lifes, so with Tank I simply profiled the ones he needed and named the profile blah. It worked great, I have as of yet, not been smart enough to do the same thing with castaway. Trust me I tried, and wow did that get me in trouble with my computer. Anyway, I really like both programs for buffing, both are tempermental and are able to break if users are not careful with them however.
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One thing that Castaway will do with all other spells is automatically fallback to lower level versions if it doesn't know the spell in question. So if the bot doesn't know Boon of the Mace Turner it will try Blud Protect Other VI, then V, etc. All part of the code, no user interaction required.
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I saw that 
I'm becoming more xml brave every day I work with it, and one thing I seem to remember hearing about was "instances" like when someone logs on it would kneel or say something on allegiance chat. I could be confused though.
**edit**
Sorry I suppose those aren't gripes...
So my gripe:
I wish that if I modify botspeech at the main file it would filter down to all the individual character files, I did that and didn't realize I had to change the character file folder, so I kept broadcasting I was a doofus for not editing the default files...
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there is/was several things I liked bout castaway.
1. brill
2. could use town/portal gems
3. worked with accomm (are yall gonna get it working with something like that again?) loved banes without having to use trade window.
4. ability to "command" my bot from any of my toons to do things like allegiance info and setting motd. Of course had to make him an officer but that allowed me access to allegiance commands no matter who I was on.
SL
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OK I'll give you credit I was wrong about baning, it is the individual bot owner who disables or not. But it is very annoying to give command xbow and then armorbane (if they didn't disable) many times when a big group is waiting) you can hve 2-3 different buff commands put in by other people in between your own commans) That really makes no sense, why not allow 2 commands to be put in at once or at least be able to add the 2nd command when it is your time to buff.
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You know that Castaway, Insane-Bot or even El Buff Bot needs for custom bot spam and response text strings?
THEMES
Shareable.
Portable.
Independent of bot settings.
You could import or edit an entire set of responses that were "in character" for your bots chosen role play style.
Then we could build an independent theme editor that would work with all buff bots.
/e stops thinking before he gets into deeper trouble . . .
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You can delete the one in the individual folder and the one from the setting folder will copy over at character login.
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I've thoguth about that Tivvee, maybe in version 2.
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