miscellaneous

Deciding when to use a shield has never been easy, until now.

This is a script that will simply tell you if you should be using a shield or not, it will also tell you which shield to use.

The script will be activated when you're in the workshop and don't have a shield equipped, right under your block chance you will see this:
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2356/pstmpfile14584426364863.png

And if you hover that area with your mouse you will see something like this:
http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2628/pstmpfile27967358836089.png

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/100895

Cant wait to test this out :)

"Deciding when to use a shield has never been easy, until now."

If block chance >= 55% with shield, use a shield, assuming you're not a piece of shit strength bot.

I CALL FUCKIN' SHENANIGANS.

Why don't you just make a script that also tells you what armour and weapons to use? And while you're at it, also make one that tells you where to allocate your stats to make the perfect bot. Honestly, Emanuel, I know a lot of your scripts are designed to make things easier for everyone, but I can't say that something like this is great for the game. It's just making the bot building experience easier and more watered down.

>http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/100895

It said there was a server error, then it gave me a 404.

Agree with Pat. I think it's a bit of a script for script's sake.

Emanuel, your various scripts are awesome, but i'm not so excited about this one. Players should figure out builds for themselves. Hints from other players are fine, but when things like fight simulators and build advisers are readily available, it takes out too much of the fun. You indeed might as well tell them where to put skill points and what weapon to buy next.

I see what you guys are saying, but shield vs dual wielding is just a matter of simple math, and doesn't require any simulations or anything.

A "Perfect Build Adviser" would give you an "unfair advantage" forever, while this would just give you a slight advantage for like a level or two if you're still dual wielding when you should have switched to using a shield.

Everything in this game is a matter of simple math ;)

404

Userscripts.org is a bit slow and you'll need to refresh a couple of times.

Clearly the god of bots does not approve of this script.

^ ROFL

Userscripts was hit with a non-intentional DDOS attack.
A guy wrote a script that made thousands of users' scripts update every 10 milliseconds. So kinda crazy.

why would someone waste there time to do this??

~Hobo

I think you guys are being a bit harsh.

I see no difference between this script & the formula that SaiyanZ calculated & posted in B2.

No one used that formula though.

And my post was correct 99% of the time, if block chance with shield >= 55%, then use a shield. You don't need a script to tell you that, most bots players know that, so yeah.

I mean most of Emmanuel's scripts are useful, but this one, not so much.

Then let this cover the other 1%.

Don't like it don't use it. Simple as that.

Ah forget it, I had an actual retort for that, but I'll just say

"lol"

And move on

As for the topic at hand, can't even get to the page 'cuz I just get 500 or 502 errors.

The script is also available at http://aquaregia.no-ip.org/bots4/Bots4_Shield_Adviser.user.js, for now.