Brother/Sharing List
General News
by Demishadow on
January 28, 2004 at 06:08 PM
Ok, its time to focus on this again.
I have coded a bot that will aid us in this process this season. The bot automatically puts the data into the MR Database ensuring that I dont lose it in my forgetfullness. It also does some checks on the data to ensure that it is valid so I no longer have to harass anyone about giving usuable aliases.
Below is an outline of how to use this bot.
The deadline for this information is: Saturday Feb 7th, 6pm EST.
NO msgs from last season will be considered as input for this season. The list is BLANK. If you gave me your brotherinfo for last season your going to have to do it again for this season.... and next season... and the one after that... etc.
ALL inputs right now must be made through this bot. A number of you guys have given me this info in person inside SS or through SS messages. Well, if you gave it to me in person its gone. Sorry, but that is the life of computers. I record it in my computer somewhere, windows finds it and crashes my disk. Yay. If you gave it to me in msgs, well, I highly likely never really got to see it. I havent been able to read my SS-based msgs in a while since it crashes continuum within about 1s of it and causes me to reboot my whole computer.
From monday, Feb 2th and on I will provide an email address (on demand in game) which can also be used... but ONLY if you have dire issues with the bot. I will be using my bot to manually enter that data. It will be up to you to check that I have put it into your personal sharing list or captains sharing list by the Feb 6th deadline.
BrotherBot manual:
The "BrotherBot" can be found in ?go mr
Captains interface:
To add a player to your teams brother/sharing list.
!c_brother Your_Teammates_Rostered_Name:His_Brothers_Rostered_Name:Reason
To see a list of sharing information for your roster
!c_brotherlist
Ex 1.1)
Player: JoeSmith is on your teams roster. He is living at home with his brother, BillSmith who is on some other teams roster. You would need to msg this privately to the BrotherBot
!c_brother JoeSmith:BillSmith:They live together at home
Ex 1.2)
Player: JackSmoe is on your teams roster. He is living at home with his brother, AlexSmoe who is ALSO on your teams roster. You would need to msg this privately to the BrotherBot
!c_brother JackSmoe:AlexSmoe:They live together at home
_and you should msg the inverse to the bot for completeness_
!c_brother AlexSmoe:JackSmoe:They live together at home
Ex 1.3)
Player: JohnDoe is on your teams roster. He shares his connection with his two roommates, Jill and Joan. As this means three people are sharing the same connection it will take you two commands to the brotherbot.
!c_brother JohnDoe:Jill:Roommates
!c_brother John:Doe:Joan:Roommates
If there are 4 people sharing ONE connection, use the above pattern. It will take you 3 enteries. 5 people means 4 enteries.
Players interface:
To add a player to your own sharing list.
!brother Your_Brothers_Rostered_Name:Reason
To see a list of sharing information for yourself
!brotherlist
Ex 2.1)
You live at home with your brother, BillSmith who is on some other teams roster. You would need to msg this privately to the BrotherBot
!brother BillSmith:We live together at home
Ex 2.2)
You share your connection with your two roommates, Jill and Joan. As this means three people are sharing the same connection it will take you two commands to the brotherbot.
!brother Jill:Roommates
!brother Joan:Roommates
Known issues:
- If you happen to be on one of the teams where you play 2 leagues at once (ie, have your roster in 2 leagues) the !c_brotherlist and !brotherlist command may not show all the enteries for yourself/your team. I know why this happens and it will jsut take me some time free to deal with it.
- I am not using any of ceriums code yet. So that means I have some bugs in my bot that he has solved, namely how much text I can get the bot to spam at once. Thus sometimes the bot will not end up sending every line of text I want it to send to you. This may effect how you see the bots !help listings and also may cause an entry or two to be missing in !brotherlist and !c_brotherlist, especially if you have many enteries. Known bug, known solution. I just gotta get time to theif (err borrow) ceriums code ;)
- The bot isnt up! Yes, this happens. Either it crashes or the server its on resets, or some damned moonray hit it. Try again later. I will try to especially keep it active during weekends. One should note I am a euro so if it crashes anytime after 6pm EST it may very well not be back until tomorrow.
Bug Reports:
Please post them here: http://premier.shanky.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6348
