🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:27:37 -0600, "Everett Hickey" <lit...@ev1.net>
wrote:

>"Grok[vL]" <nos...@email.net> wrote in message
>news:069D93356F53F12E.D59B1BE15237837D.F8BA08864D7C182E@lp.airnews.net...
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:21:46 -0600, "Everett Hickey" <lit...@ev1.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I've heard that there are "bots" that are able to take on the role of an
>> >opponent in starcraft, acting like another copy of the game on the
>network.
>> >
>> >I've been playing around with the packet structure used in connecting to
>> >battlenet, and am considering making a sort of "battle manager" that
>turns
>> >the game from a realistic battlefield scenario into something more like a
>> >piece of military software - helping you organize your men, etc.  Anyone
>> >know if work like this has already been done?
>> >
>> >note: due to the... err... nature.. of this product, I'm not likely to
>> >distribute a working copy of it (if I do it) unless it's set to announce
>> >what it is in-game.  This is meant more as a project on battlefield
>> >management and low-level AI, and using it competitively wouldn't be
>> >particularly fair (unless the other person was doing the same).
>> >
>>
>> If you are that talented, visit us on Battle.net.  What you are
>> describing has been done.
>
>How do I go about that?  I assume you mean in one of their lobbies.
>

Oh, just log on USEast, preferably after downloading and installing
our gateway registry entries:

http://www.valhallalegends.com/patches/gateway.reg

That file lets you choose the exact server on which you want to play,
rather than just:

USEast
USWest
Europe
Asia

you get a full list like this:

USEast #1
USEast #2
USEast #3 .. up to USEast #5
USWest #1
USWest #2 .. up to USWest #6
Europe #1
Europe #2
Europe #3
Asia #1
Asia #2 .. all the way to Asia #13

Then just '/join Clan [vL]' to get to our channel.  If the bot is on
protect mode and bans you, just try again later.  If a member bans
you, don't take it personally, just try again later.  In any case,
whisper [vL]Grok and if I'm not away, I will respond quicker if you
whisper that you're a programmer interested in joining.

In the meantime, you might want to read a little bit about our clan,
just go to http://www.valhallalegends.com and click on About [vL], and
Clan Rules.  There's enough info there for you to get an idea about
us.  We're mostly programmers, network engineers, system
administrators, and hackers.  We know far more about the battle.net
protocols than bnetd does, judging by their source code and
documentation.  They have a great many undocumented packets which we
have been using for a long time.

I'm usually in the channel in the evening, or very late at night,
Eastern time.

Grok
Valhalla Legends
Web:  http://www.valhallalegends.com
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