How to do hotkey in combat bot?

[Viir (Michael Rätzel)]

@alexeisynochek

Can you help me how to postpone the Warp until the next anomaly?
Now this is one problem - the name of the anomaly does not disappear immediately after kill last NPC and the bot is already starting to look for the next one.

I remember we had implemented functions for postponing like this somewhere. I am looking into the linked app code again to find it.
Where do I start looking? The most promising place seems the memory type because delays like these use a memory. Now I remember we discussed the delay topic and how to implement a delay.
Here it is:

How could I create a function that would add a delay?

I see two ways to customize the delays: As you mentioned, use multiply the default base delay time. Setting the delay in milliseconds. Let’s look at both in more detail. Multiplying the default base delay time To complete the implementation you already started, we can copy from existing implementations. I did a quick search and found two implementations of this approach. This one is in a mining bot for the game EVE Online: bots/BotEngineApp.elm at 6da8babc2cff0a8e7c76b92b9c6723390347ec4e …

As I understand your case, it is no problem if the delay is one second longer. So the approach of waiting is enough, no need to adjust the delay within a step.

Here is the definition of the memory type where you can add the field for your delay: bots/implement/applications/eve-online/eve-online-combat-anomaly-bot/BotEngineApp.elm at e9cf4964fbed5d314c76386f1eef75474c5f59dd · Viir/bots · GitHub

You could add a counter like this: stepsSinceLastSawRat: Int
The update depends on if you currently see a rat: If you see a rat, set it to 0. Else, increment it. With this counter, it is also trivial to increase the delay to more than one step.

@alexeisynochek

And I found another problem - the bot sometimes Unlock target and removes the NPC from the overview. I didn’t find any reason for this in the code.

You can look up the reason using the time travel user interface. Going back in time, you can see how it decided each action. The time travel UI shows a timeline for the selected session, based on the recording the engine had saved to your computer when it was running the session.

Here is the guide on time-travel: bots/guide/observing-and-inspecting-a-bot.md at main · Viir/bots · GitHub