scripting for eq

[Xalpus]

are there any decent scripting progams u can use with eq? thanks in adance

[Dedpoet]

The most well known one is Xylobot. www.xylobot.com.

You can script, macro, etc. I haven't used it but have read good things. They have a free download of a "lite" version, I believe.

[fryfrog]

i used xylobot for a long time when it was a free "beta" and started to really really like it, just for its macro'ing ability. sure, it was limited but done right i could bot my cleric and just play my warrior...

now that it has delphi web scripting, you can do some amazing things. right now instead of just being able to heal ONE person, the dws script can pull the name of the person FROM their /tell to the bot and target them for a heal... or assist them and heal their target... or buff, or what not. join groups, follow players and the list goes on and on.

[Catt]

The only thing that has kept me from even evalutating XYLOBOT is it's requirement to communicate with a 3rd party, i.e. their license server. Who knows what it send them, or even who 'them' is?

I can understand the desire to make money of it, but that is too much, under the guise of protecting their interests.

[FuddRucker]

"They" are Ben Ziegler, "he" is a pretty nice guy. Lately Xylo has really taken off, great program, some fun scripts out there, our guild has a cleric and wizard scripted. The wizard will actually bring the cleric to the zone you are in so the cleric can res you or heal you, or whatever.

Xylo unlike SEQ doesn't look at the packet stream instead it just reads your .log file and is limited to whatever you can do in game via mouse or keyboard commands. So it can't really path and just run somewhere without getting into a mess of trouble or doing a lot of /locs. :D

[fryfrog]

yes, ben is very nice. he hangs out on his forums, helping those that need help. a few of us scripters have found bugs in his functions (and asked for new ones) and low and behold one or two days later he releases a new version that fixes/adds to xylobot even more.

nothing stopping you from sniffing the traffic that xylobot generates, and it even offers the option of changing xylobots's task name (i use netscape.exe). you can also specify the port it uses for the liscense server... so you even know which port to sniff :)

he has been around for a long time and has a lot of supporters. that goes a long way to helping establish that he is not an account theif or what not.

of the two, i would say seq has a better chance of "sending" things than xylobot due to the sheer amount of data that seq has available to sniff vs. the data available to xylobot. NOT THAT I AM IMPLYING SEQ DOES THIS, IT DOES NOT!

[liquidx]

Originally posted by fryfrog
of the two, i would say seq has a better chance of "sending" things than xylobot due to the sheer amount of data that seq has available to sniff vs. the data available to xylobot. NOT THAT I AM IMPLYING SEQ DOES THIS, IT DOES NOT!

SEQ is unable 'send' things because 1) It doesn't run on the EQ computer and 2) EQ Packets are seqentially numbered by the server, just like most online game.

The only possibly way for ShowEQ to send data to EQ would be if you ran it on your EQ computer, then it could take control of your input devices... Or had some sort of layer between your KB/M and computer which allows it to take control..

Well, they could send data anyways, but it would just be ignored, or confuse the server, or something.. but that would just be stupid and would never accomplish anything..

Xylobot however loads ittself into memory on your EQ computer, and it takes control of input devices.. It would take no more then a simple memory sweep to find a chunk of xylobot running, and ban your ass... Thats why I dont use it, but I doubt theres any danger anyways, verent == retwaded monkeyz


As for Xylo contacting an auth server, yeah, more and more software does that, its fucking lame, expecially because game/apps crackers have moved away from distributing cdkeys/keygens/cracks and moved onto distributing auth server emulators. I use one for FlashFXP, works like a charm, I can even use their auto-update server. =)

[Cryonic]

SEQ could easily send information out. Doesn't mean it has to go to the EQ servers. Could send your login/password to someone by calling a webpage, or sending information about your character to an email addy at VI.

[fryfrog]

yeah, i wasn't saying at all that seq could send data to the eq servers, i was implying that it has access to a huge amount of data since it is passivly sniffing your entire network...

it could send any ftp or telnet passwords you just happened to type while seq was running. it could sniff and send your eq password as well as any other eq password that happened to pass by it...

really, the possibilities of what it can send are limited to 1.) what goes over YOUR home/work network and 2.) what the software designers could sneak into the code. admit it, even though you CAN review the ENTIRE source code... you haven't...

now, please don't interpret this as saying that seq has or would do any of this EVER i'm just saying its possible.

[cznelso]

http://www.hagstromelectronics.com/

showeq output > application on linux box > serial port > eq keyboard port

[RSB]

Even better
SEQ modified > Xylobot via TCP

A very good pathing system could be done for open area zones. Say your a level 60 wizard in SK. Quill pops have SEQ send command (forward, turn right, turn left) to Xylobot via either TCP or UPD until you get within 100 units of Quill, SEQ at the point send target & kill quill to xylobot that runs a macro to target quill and IC him if he's still up Xylobot starts listening agian for stearing command until another blast order is given.

no special hardwar required.