Xfire
16th October 2008, 11:54 PM
Hello everybody;
We got an amazing announcement to make, regarding tournament games, and, in general, any custom game played.
From now on, tournament games will ( and can ) be hosted by special, assigned bots, which will assure a pleasurable gaming on non-lagging games, for any user, from any corner of the world. It has been tested, that these bots can handle a total of more than over 30 solo games at a time, without any problem. The host is much better for European players than Northrend host ( 0,1-0,3 sec ) and very good also for non-eu ( 1 sec max ); 99% of the people who participated in testing the bot said the conditions are awesome, identical to playing on their own hosts; and half of these people were from out of Europe, like Brazil, US, Canada or Malaysia !
What can be solved so?
- Quality non-laggy tournament games, for anyone;
- High quality clanwars ( lag is well known as being a dramatic issue in cw organization on Eurobattle.net );
- Pleasurable games for non-eu players ( they could've registered to a tour, but finding a convenient host good for both them and eu players was impossible );
- Important leagues for top PG players.
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At this moment, there are 2 tournament bots, TourHost and TourHost2, which are directly connected to Eurobattle.net server, which means they will automatically be online when server is online, which is awesome!
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9089/tourbotsql0.png
Why 2 bots? Because as one bot can host a total of 'x' games, 2 bots will double the quantity of hosted games, keeping the same low ping!
1. What is done ?
2 bots hosted on 100 mb/s dedicated server, up for 100% of time when server is up
Bots can handle ( theoretically ) up to 30 games each and practically ( tested ) at least 20 ( solo )
Bots can host any roc/tft map normally, with obs or with referees.
Default trigger is dot ('.')
2. Use
Hosting a game is done by .priv/pub command after which you must type game name, e.g. .priv tour-1
Hosting a game by someone is done by .pubby/privby nickname gamename command, i.e. .privby User tour-1. Nickname in this command is case sensitive, so be sure you type it correctly ( Those who know c++ remember that 'User' value isn't same as 'user' )
Unhosting game is done by .unhost gamename ( by whisper ), .unhost ( at lobby) and .end ( during game )
Loading map is done by .map mapname command. Mapname argument has following structure : roc-mapname, i.e. roc-losttemple for roc maps and tft-mapname, i.e. tft-echoisles for tft.
Hosting map with obs/refs is done by adding '-obs/ref' argument at the end of mapname, i.e. .map tft-terenasstand-ref, roc-losttemple-obs
3. Possible/Known errors/bugs
Bot randomly kicks from lobby. In such situation, try rejoining game or .unhost it and host again.
Bot doesn't check if chosen game name already exists on server. If it does, bot will create the game, but you will either be kicked when joining or commands will not work at lobby.
Sometimes bot does not respond on commands ( in lobby ). In such situation .unhost the game and host it again
* We're looking forward to create another top-players tournament very soon, which will be 100% ran with these bots, so that everyone can convince of their incredible performance.
* These bots are under heavy development; full details about how they can be used will be posted as soon as possible. We're now looking to maximize their performance and prepare them, so that Eurobattle.net players will get the rightful amount of pleasure from playing non-laggy, quality games :)
* Credits for this project go to Anomandaris, Perito and Rake.
We got an amazing announcement to make, regarding tournament games, and, in general, any custom game played.
From now on, tournament games will ( and can ) be hosted by special, assigned bots, which will assure a pleasurable gaming on non-lagging games, for any user, from any corner of the world. It has been tested, that these bots can handle a total of more than over 30 solo games at a time, without any problem. The host is much better for European players than Northrend host ( 0,1-0,3 sec ) and very good also for non-eu ( 1 sec max ); 99% of the people who participated in testing the bot said the conditions are awesome, identical to playing on their own hosts; and half of these people were from out of Europe, like Brazil, US, Canada or Malaysia !
What can be solved so?
- Quality non-laggy tournament games, for anyone;
- High quality clanwars ( lag is well known as being a dramatic issue in cw organization on Eurobattle.net );
- Pleasurable games for non-eu players ( they could've registered to a tour, but finding a convenient host good for both them and eu players was impossible );
- Important leagues for top PG players.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At this moment, there are 2 tournament bots, TourHost and TourHost2, which are directly connected to Eurobattle.net server, which means they will automatically be online when server is online, which is awesome!
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9089/tourbotsql0.png
Why 2 bots? Because as one bot can host a total of 'x' games, 2 bots will double the quantity of hosted games, keeping the same low ping!
1. What is done ?
2 bots hosted on 100 mb/s dedicated server, up for 100% of time when server is up
Bots can handle ( theoretically ) up to 30 games each and practically ( tested ) at least 20 ( solo )
Bots can host any roc/tft map normally, with obs or with referees.
Default trigger is dot ('.')
2. Use
Hosting a game is done by .priv/pub command after which you must type game name, e.g. .priv tour-1
Hosting a game by someone is done by .pubby/privby nickname gamename command, i.e. .privby User tour-1. Nickname in this command is case sensitive, so be sure you type it correctly ( Those who know c++ remember that 'User' value isn't same as 'user' )
Unhosting game is done by .unhost gamename ( by whisper ), .unhost ( at lobby) and .end ( during game )
Loading map is done by .map mapname command. Mapname argument has following structure : roc-mapname, i.e. roc-losttemple for roc maps and tft-mapname, i.e. tft-echoisles for tft.
Hosting map with obs/refs is done by adding '-obs/ref' argument at the end of mapname, i.e. .map tft-terenasstand-ref, roc-losttemple-obs
3. Possible/Known errors/bugs
Bot randomly kicks from lobby. In such situation, try rejoining game or .unhost it and host again.
Bot doesn't check if chosen game name already exists on server. If it does, bot will create the game, but you will either be kicked when joining or commands will not work at lobby.
Sometimes bot does not respond on commands ( in lobby ). In such situation .unhost the game and host it again
* We're looking forward to create another top-players tournament very soon, which will be 100% ran with these bots, so that everyone can convince of their incredible performance.
* These bots are under heavy development; full details about how they can be used will be posted as soon as possible. We're now looking to maximize their performance and prepare them, so that Eurobattle.net players will get the rightful amount of pleasure from playing non-laggy, quality games :)
* Credits for this project go to Anomandaris, Perito and Rake.