Bots to use [Bot] clan

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 15 Nov 2006, 08:36

Just as a courtesy for people in the lobby, could bots/autoservers put [bot] before their name? Just so that others know for sure that its a bot and dont get all confused by something.

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 15 Nov 2006, 14:26

i think this should be a rule.

then i dont have to pretend i have friends by talking to bots and not realising they are actualy not real.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 15 Nov 2006, 15:08

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 15 Nov 2006, 18:22

I figure the name "EEautoserver" is pretty self-explainatory.

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 15 Nov 2006, 18:24

Decimator wrote:I figure the name "EEautoserver" is pretty self-explainatory.

Yeah, but remember the rule, always make something as simple as the simplest person who is going to be using it, and having seen our fanbase in action, I might suggest the simpler the better for the bots

AF · Post by AF » 15 Nov 2006, 20:24

I have no access to the machine cookiebot runs on, and its a bit obvious its a bot anyways.

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 15 Nov 2006, 21:15

AF wrote:I have no access to the machine cookiebot runs on, and its a bit obvious its a bot anyways.

..not that it ever runs lately anyway.. *pokes Cup repeatedly*

+1 to original idea.

AF · Post by AF » 15 Nov 2006, 23:14

err, cookiebot is alive and kicking in #main

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 16 Nov 2006, 00:23

I'd love a custom bot icon...

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 16 Nov 2006, 11:27

P3374H wrote:
AF wrote:I have no access to the machine cookiebot runs on, and its a bit obvious its a bot anyways.
..not that it ever runs lately anyway.. *pokes Cup repeatedly*

+1 to original idea.

i sorted AF'a access out again

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 16 Nov 2006, 14:22

SwiftSpear wrote:I'd love a custom bot icon...

A custom icon for bots would be even better (something like a computer, instead of the rank icon).

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 16 Nov 2006, 14:25

HAL9000. I'll make one...

32x32:

48x48:

64x64:

80x80:

128x128:

original:

Not much work done except for some minor cutting and resizing :P. They're all 32 bit pngs dunno what format would be needed.

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 16 Nov 2006, 18:09

someone pm betalord this thread then

AF · Post by AF » 16 Nov 2006, 19:02

There's no method of identifying bots save by a [bot] clantag for which nobody has changed usernames......

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 16 Nov 2006, 19:14

you can identify if there not using TAS client, and therefore you can identify if there a bot (give or take

)

Zydox · Post by **Zydox** » 16 Nov 2006, 19:15

iamacup wrote:you can identify if there not using TAS client, and therefore you can identify if there a bot (give or take )

How do you verify that?

AF · Post by AF » 16 Nov 2006, 19:24

@iamacup: only the server and moderators/admins can use that protocol command.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 16 Nov 2006, 20:19

And how do you verify it's not some other client?
It'd need special helper or bot lines additional to mods/admins and mods/admins will have to give the bots the status manually. Better yet is to do the bot tag in the client itself rather than using the name for it, i.e. everyone logged in as a bot account will get a bot icon and the tag BOT in front of it. The server then could use verify to ensure that this isn't a normal chatclient (if it works the way I think it does) and kick it off the server if verify fails/gets a bot only response, perhaps some random encoded string...

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 17 Nov 2006, 00:23

what other clients are there apart from that linux one that noone uses because linux cant sync with windows.

being realistic, there are no other clients

and i didnt know it was limited to admins only sorry

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 17 Nov 2006, 03:32

Well it isn't all that difficult to write a small client app to mimick something and then abuse it. Better safe than sorry... :P
(one of the reasons why I get nothing done, paranoia can consume so much time)

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Bots to use [Bot] clan

Bots to use [Bot] clan