Cronus: The Ultimate Drone

[Lyinginbedmon]

Well wouldn't be difficult to instead make it only switch off prop protection when it finds it's switched on.

[Aura]

Consider a contraption that needs you to just spawn any prop at all to repair itself and wreak havoc, and Cronus becomes more revolutionary. You don't even need to weld, register, or anything with the drone, you just need to make a new prop for it to use.

And there are additional scenarios to consider. If Cronus finds out that his owner is an admin, it floods the console to disable prop protection so that no-one can turn it back on fast enough. Even then, Cronus is intended more as a player-made boss NPC to overcome on your own or as a group with other players, ideally in a server-wide conflict. It's not a mingebot.

Even if that seems pointless, consider the other technologies produced to make Cronus. Realtime pathfinding and entity(N) discovery are pretty cool as well.

Well yeah, or you could just pull out the Adv. Duplicator tool :V

[Neo Kabuto]

Well yeah, or you could just pull out the Adv. Duplicator tool :V

But how do you know when something's wrong with what you already made if it's something autonomous that you don't feel like babysitting, like a drone?

[ktccd]

Is it possible to see if the prop protection is on? as in, checking a convar? somehow? if so, then "spamming" is unneded, only really fast response.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Is it possible to see if the prop protection is on? as in, checking a convar? somehow? if so, then "spamming" is unneded, only really fast response.

Prop Protection is set with a console variable, so it should be possible to retrieve it, though I'm not sure 100% what the command is.

[Schilcote]

*trots over to server*
*trots back*

SPropProtection_toggle.

EDIT:

Except you're not allowed to mess with it from Lua. It'll give you a "concommand blocked!" error message.

[Lyinginbedmon]

*trots over to server*
*trots back*

SPropProtection_toggle.

EDIT:

Except you're not allowed to mess with it from Lua. It'll give you a "concommand blocked!" error message.

Hmm...then perhaps checking the Friends list would produce a solution?

I'm not particularly familiar with the use of E:friends() and E:trusts(E2) though.

[sean1572]

Wow, i have been looking at this all through its development on this thread, i got the svn but can use it, it has functions that i dont have. How do i get them?

P.S. The most amazing bot so far, and i havent even fought it yet. ^_^

[Lyinginbedmon]

Wow, i have been looking at this all through its development on this thread, i got the svn but can use it, it has functions that i dont have. How do i get them?

The SVN is pretty much defunct at the moment, but I'm not sure there are any functions in them that aren't already in the Wiremod SVN. The only possible exception to that is the animation recorder, which just saves a glon string to a text file, you can easily code around that and just have it print.

For the most part, still waiting on Techni's pathfinder code to continue work on this, or at least any other pathfinder code of similar calibre.

[tepholman]

I am really hoping this doesn't get released, as it would be the perfect mingeing tool. Unless you made the user solve simultaneous equations or something when you spawned it to turn it on <_> .