Autotroll / QPlayer

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I'm a bit confused about one aspect of the Autotroll / QPlayer link.
I've gotten the part where a dropped player is turned over to The Q
control (actually, in my case, Dominate) automatically by AT. There's
one setting mentioned in the AT help that doesn't seem to do much
though -- the "$QPlayer" race setting. According to the docs, a player
can send an email w/ the following in the body:

$Game: 4
$QPlayer: yes

and this supposedly turn the Q on for that player. I've gotten it to
recognize the email w/ this command (no errors), but the response
comes back w/ the "QPLAYER" line set to "NO" still, and the Q never
plays the race as requested.

Is it actually possible for a user to request (without manual host
intervention) a turn or more to be played by the Q without having to
drop out of the game & rejoin?

 

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"RBoggs" <jollygreenfat@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a bit confused about one aspect of the Autotroll / QPlayer link.
> I've gotten the part where a dropped player is turned over to The Q
> control (actually, in my case, Dominate) automatically by AT. There's
> one setting mentioned in the AT help that doesn't seem to do much
> though -- the "$QPlayer" race setting. According to the docs, a player
> can send an email w/ the following in the body:
>
> $Game: 4
> $QPlayer: yes
>
> and this supposedly turn the Q on for that player. I've gotten it to
> recognize the email w/ this command (no errors), but the response
> comes back w/ the "QPLAYER" line set to "NO" still, and the Q never
> plays the race as requested.
>
> Is it actually possible for a user to request (without manual host
> intervention) a turn or more to be played by the Q without having to
> drop out of the game & rejoin?

Yes but you must have theQ setup in the host directory ready to run. In you
case dominate must be there with the name changed to Q.exe.

There are also 2 autotroll settings:

Under the hosting tab I set Q Agressive mode for drops

And

On the game setup screen I use activate theQ for after ? turns missing and I
set the warning also.

Some of our players use the email command to set theQ and it works great but
they still cannot miss the number of allowed missed trns.

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Regards,
Merlyn

Merlyn at thelastdomain.com