Gathertouch not working since patch

[he_leParticipant]

So since the patch yesterday, gathertouch is no longer working for me. Gives me the error “there is no gathering node to touch” and then terminates with execution error. Seems like if a node is not within visual range(showing up green text in the game world) the bot isnt using the compass+navmesh to move to it

Anyone else having this issue? very bad because all my ephemeral gatherers are semi broken now 🙁

[LyfoxParticipant]

What do you mean? Miqo never used compass for gatherTouch() she needs a node to be visible. It was always like that. What version do you use?

[NottParticipant]

I’m having no problem with E nodes / gatherTouch, may need to restart miqo.

[he_leParticipant]

That’s weird, did something else change? Most of my ephemeral scripts are sort of like your public ones Lyfox. Eg in an area with 3 node clusters 1,2,3 it would execute waypoint(3), gathertouch, randomWaypoint(1,2), gathertouch then continue. Prior to this patch I never had issues with it with a combined over a thousand hours of use. Since patch, if it went to waypoint 3, but only waypoints 1,2 had node spawns it would throw a execution error and stop the entire script

[LyfoxParticipant]

Hmm why exactly did cluster at waypoint 3 despawn? Did you gather it before? If you do only gatherTouch() it should not despawn on its own. You can relog to reset clusters if theyre messed up.

[he_leParticipant]

I have no idea why it despawned. I know on a few accounts all they do is gathertouch, no gather but still had issues. Do you think adding a waypoint(1), gather(1) before the gatherTouch() could help it? So makes miqo navigate to a cluster using the compass then do its thing

I’ll double check when I can later, but basically I would want to go to the area and see the locations of clusters manually then put those numbers into the waypoints right? Eg if I see theres nodes at waypoints 1,3 then I can be sure they will stay there and not be randomised on a relog/rezone?

[LyfoxParticipant]

Umm not really, if you gather(1) it will despawn it. And nodes are always randomized within each cluster.

There are usually three clusters with 4 nodes in each. Only 2 of 4 are spawned and those 2 will be different after relog. So if you put waypoints 1,2,3 above three clusters you have to make sure that all 12 nodes are linked to them. Like 4,5,6,7 for the first cluster then 8,9,10,11 for second and so on. Use 3d radar to link both spawned (green) and non-spawned (white).

Sorry if its the same as you asked i wasnt sure.

[he_leParticipant]

Yea I know it will despawn the node. My idea was to basically have :
gather(1)
gatherTouch()
… continue here

so it will navigate to a node beyond visual range, gather(despawn) it. then it will guaranteed be near another node since those spawn in clusters of 2. Does that make any sense?

I understand how the navmesh works, but the problem is eg if we have the following code(think this was from your ephemeral scenario actually):

teleport(Porta Praetoria)
job(BTN)
gatherPreset(e-Duskglow)
grid(e-Torreya-Branch)
rotationIfGP(Ephemeral-i)
rotationIfGP(Ephemeral-8/8)

//afkUntil(04:00ET)
waypoint(20)
gather(1)

randomWaypoint(0,22)
gather(1)
gatherTouch()
waypoint(4)
gather(1)
gatherTouch()

Given a mesh for example first cluster is 0,1,2,3; 2nd is 4,5,6,7 and 3rd is 22,23,24,25

When bot gets to the line randomWaypoint(0,22) and selects waypoint 0 to travel to. if no nodes are active in the 1st (0,1,2,3) cluster AND other clusters are out of visual range the entire bot hangs. I just don’t see any way around this unless im missing something major

[LyfoxParticipant]

Sorry i still dont understand why youre looking for a workaround for something that should never happen instead of trying to figure out what caused it. Theres probably a mistake in timing that made your bot to gather from a normal node when ephemeral wasnt active at all. The most logical thing to do is copy the message log into a text file and read it. Find the abnormal gather sequence which navigated to incorrect waypoint not connected to an ephemeral. If you dont figure out the real problem your workaround might break anyway.

You can show your scenario and log if you want and ill help you look for that problem.

[he_leParticipant]

I really don’t see how this ‘should never happen’. Unless you modify the scenario code each time an account relogs, how exactly does the bot avoid the problem I described above? I can go paste the the scenario/log next time it happens, but it feels to me that I’m not getting the problem across properly

Are you understanding why the bot may get stuck given the code and environment described in the previous post?

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by  he_le.

[LyfoxParticipant]

he_le wrote:

I really don’t see how this ‘should never happen’.

Bot gathers ephemeral nodes only and touches normal ones only. Normal nodes never despawn.
Just try my ephemeral scenario it works exactly like this.

he_le wrote:

Are you understanding why the bot may get stuck given the code and environment described in the previous post?

Yep.
– On first cycle scenario will gather(1) and despawn one node in the cluster. Then gatherTouch() second node.
– On second cycle scenario will gather(1) and despawn second node in the cluster. Then gatherTouch() has nothing left to touch.

[he_leParticipant]

So you realise why the gather(1), gatherTouch() system gets stuck due to node being not visible to the bot. How is that problem any different from the one in both of our original ephemeral scripts? We both use this type of code to respawn ephemerals:

waypoint(17)
gatherTouch()
randomWaypoint(21,2)
gatherTouch()

which assumes that there are nodes within visual range of waypoint 17. If there are not, the scenario simply hangs

[LyfoxParticipant]

Ive already answered that. You put a waypoint in the middle of cluster where all cluster nodes are visible and never despawn. Just take a look at my scenario.

[he_leParticipant]

Which, again, is not failsafe because if you get into the situation stated above the bot hangs. Anyway, I’m not sure if you’re missing the point or just trolling at this point but I’m pretty done with this back and forth discussion so have a good day and thanks for the advice

[LyfoxParticipant]

Wow.
Which is why i suggested to show your scenario and i would help you fix it. Sorry if you feel offended.

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