November, 2009


27
Nov 09

Next Version [Preview]

Posting 12/23. New version of FFACE was released, gotta test it before posting.

Doesn’t look big feature-wise, but working on the following:

  • Newer version of FFACE.dll
  • Auto-equip Light Staff for Cure, Dark Staff for resting
  • Spell Queue for click-to-cast spells
  • Tray icon tooltip will have power leveler hp, mp, job/sub job
  • Erase and Esuna to context menu for each player
  • Auto Afflatus Misery
  • Request elevation to Administrator if not already (it is required for the bot to work properly)
  • Notifications
  • Adjusting layout of status menu (bottom where plvler hp/mp is displayed) so the Options menu is on the left and the text is on the right
  • Adjusting layout of context menu to: raise, protect, shell on bottom, refresh on top, followed by status effect heals
  • Updates are now downloaded to your local temporary directory instead of the application directory
  • Resolved unhandled exception caused by FFACE.dll expiring
  • Adjusting Cure Step Up/Down See Below

Don’t know if anyone uses it, but I’m going to change the way the bot determines whether to step up or down when both step up and down are enabled:

Example:

Old: ((CureIHP + CureIIHP) / 2)
New: CureIIHP – ((CureIIHP – CureIHP) * (1 – (CureIHP / CureIIHP)))

Assuming default preferences, it ends up with something like:

Cure II Step Up = 129 HP – Currently 175
Cure III Step Up = 390 HP – Currently 375
Cure IV Step Up = 649 HP – Currently 612

These values seem to be much better in terms of HP Healed:MP Used.

Anyway, figured I’d throw it out there. Anyone who sees a problem with the last two items (elevation or altering step up/down) leave a comment or send me an email.

Popularity: 21%


24
Nov 09

1.0.1.42

Changelog:

  • Added: Auto Blink
  • Added: Auto Self-Paralyna
  • Added: Start Paused: Bot starts paused so it doesn’t begin casting spells until you’re ready
  • Added: ± 5% Healing Threshold.
    This will add a random number between -5 and 5 to your selected healing threshold so the bot appears to act more like a real player.

    The random number is regenerated every 4 seconds.

    The interface continues to highlight only players who are below your selected healing threshold, rather than the current random threshold.

    Enable or disable in Preferences.

  • Fixed: Auto Ballad (Was previously checking whether Auto Phalanx was enabled before casting Ballad)
  • Fixed: Also Monitor: No longer attempts to heal dead targets
  • Fixed: Auto Haste: Will no longer check if auto heal is enabled before auto hasting
  • Fixed: Auto Haste: Will no longer haste dead players

Download 1.0.1.42

As usual, leave a comment or send an email if there are any questions or problems.

On Auto Update now! Go get it, and tell me if anything is broken~

Popularity: 21%


22
Nov 09

1.0.1.41

Version update tonight to 1.0.1.42.

If anyone is having any problems with version 1.0.1.x, please send me an email or leave a comment, thanks.

Barring the unforeseen, this should be the last round of fixes for 1.0.1.x. Sorry for the high frequency of updates, hopefully it’s not a major inconvenience since they are fixing annoying bugs.

Changelog

  • Changed: Checks ability recast before checking if casting a spell when attempting to use an ability.
  • Fixed: Players who leave the party/or are completely inactive are now removed from the interface
  • Fixed: Minimum stratagem recast when SCH is main job is correctly set to 3 minutes

Download 1.0.1.41

Leave a comment or send an email if there are any questions or problems.

Edit
Looks like Auto Ballad isn’t working properly. It’s erroneously checking whether Auto Phalanx is enabled before using Ballad.

Will fix when I post 1.0.1.42 sometime next week (don’t want to keep posting releases every day :o)

Oh and also… still looking for someone who can provide to me a better model for cure step up and down so that it doesn’t favor stepping either direction.

Popularity: 18%


21
Nov 09

Feature Request v2

Any feature requests go in the comments. My current list of feature requests is available there.

Popularity: 25%


21
Nov 09

1.0.1.40

Not many changes in this release, mostly some fixes for bugs and annoyances.

Edit: Looks like one more fix needs to be applied to checking whether player is active. When a player leaves the group they aren’t properly removed from the interface…Will fix and update to 1.0.1.41 tomorrow morning. Fixed in 1.0.1.41.

Changelog:

  • Added: Interface to remove Also Monitored players (Also Monitor->Currently Monitoring)
  • Added: Regardless of spell mode, one second delay between last spell cast (or penury) and auto haste
  • Added: Cure Step Up, Cure Step Down: Adds the option for the bot to automatically use a lower or higher cure spell if the selected one has 1.5 seconds or more of recast left. The negative side of it is that the cure the bot initially wanted to cast may become available after it has stepped up/down. However, in most cases it should decrease the amount of time between cure casts, and act a little more like a real player.

    This works as follows:

    If you have both Cure Step Up and Cure Step Down Enabled: Will automatically step up or down based on which has the least HP difference.
    E.g.: 100 HP to heal
    Cure I Cap = 50
    Cure II Cap = 200
    Cure I Difference = 50
    Cure II Difference = 100
    Result: (100 > 50) it will choose Cure I.

    Cure Step Up Enabled Only: Will choose next highest cure (or remain on Cure 4 or 5 if that is the highest available)

    Cure Step Down Enabled Only: Will choose the next lowest cure (or remain on Cure 1 if that is the lowest available)

    Cure Step Up and Cure Step Down Disabled: Same as 1.0.1.38

    As you can tell, when you let it choose, it favors step down to step up (because the cure caps for each level usually grow exponentially higher. I’ll work to address this, but I’m not sure how–any ideas: send an email or leave a comment.)

  • Fixed: “Balanced” Spell Mode no longer has a one second delay between spell casts (I understand if you hate 1.0.1.38 because of this–it was annoying)
  • Fixed: Check whether player is active is now done by Power Leveler, not alt. This could have caused the bot to erroneously try to heal a player in a different zone.
  • Fixed: “Also Monitor” will no longer monitor anything besides players
  • Changed: Auto Follow will now only resume following if the alt is 15′ or more away from the power leveler (no more spamming /follow. More on this to come)

Download 1.0.1.40

Leave a comment or send an email if there are any questions or problems.

This will be on the auto update tonight or tomorrow.

Edit:
1.0.1.x should now auto update to 1.0.1.40. Let me know if you experience any problems with the update or the new version.

Popularity: 7%