The Great Bot Hunt - part 3
Writing by Green Guy on Monday, 19 of November , 2007 at 5:51 am
A new game in SL - finding greedhead bots perma-parked in Linden sims
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Hanshin’s sim’s mystery bot
After reading the previous stories in the Great Bot Hunt series you may decide to try bot hunting yourself. In this article we cover the basics of locating the bot squatters that haunt quiet Linden water sims.
The first step is to take a look at the map - paying special attention to water sims that have a single green dot in the center - suggesting that a bot may be present. The bots seem to favor corner sims somewhat off the beaten path - although one lives in Zolezzi sim where Michael Linden previously had a getaway - which is still listed in his picks
The Linden water sim bots fall into one of three categories - ground, air, or underground. The ground bots are easy to find - open the map, teleport to where the green dot is and you should be able to see the bot without too much trouble - although they are underwater.
The bots that fly have recently become more tricky to get close to - they seem to be scanning for the precence of other avatars and fly away when you get close - the closer you get the faster they fly - although they only move up or down. Some sort of avatar scanner is very helpful in locating these bots - I like the MystiTool HUD which tells you which other avatars are near.
the flying Kyle Munro bot of Jergens sim
More challenging are the underground bots - these are located below the surface of the ground so you almost certainly need an avatar scanner such as the MystiTool HUD. Once you get close, you still have the problem if seeing the bot - to do this you will have to turn on the debug menus, then tell Second Life to stop displaying the ground. Like this:
After you turn off the surface patch rendering, you’ll find the bot underfoot:
Once you have located the bot you might decide to report it for “parcel violations” or “other” - such as creating lag. Here is a sample:
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