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[Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Hello, and welcome to this guide understanding how an EE Bot works, and also how to make one. If this guide does not meet your needs, please see to another one.

▼Lesson 1: Learning Key Terms

First, I want you to learn the key terms of being a programmer, programming bots for EE. This will allow you to understand some
concepts that are very important.

▼Key Terms

*IDE: Integrated Developer Environment, which basically means a place for you to code.

*CODE: A piece of text that performs a task in a certain programming language.

*BOT: A tool created by a developer to automate specific tasks,
DEVELOPER: A person who creates applications
APPLICATION (sometimes called an exe, EXECUTABLES): Any program designed to perform a specific function directly for the user, or in some cases, for another application.
AUTOMATE: Convert (a process or facility) to largely automatic operation.
TASK: A piece of work to be done or undertaken.

*AUTHENTICATION: Is any process by which a system verifies the identity of a User who wishes to access it, or in our case, anybody who wants to log into EE.
PROCESS: A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.
SYSTEM: A set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular.
*USER: A person who is using or is a member of a certain system, in our case, EE, or your bot.

*WORLD ID: The string of charecters that defines you world.

*BUG: An error in your code.

*ERROR: Something that went wrong, a mistake.

*DATA: A stored piece of text, or: the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, being stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.

*CONSTRUCTOR: A C# code key term for the piece of code that constructs a class,

▼Lesson 2: Learning the backend of EE, PlayerIO

Next, I want to introduce you to PlayerIO. PlayerIO is the back end of EE, it's running the game.

▼A very basic guide on how PlayerIO works

▼The BigDB

There is a BigDB, a big database, filled with data about you.

The BigDB stores everything, your worlds, your player, if you're banned, how much energy you have, the campaigns you completed,
if a gray block is placed at 0x0 in your world, e.t.c

▼PayVault

There is also a PayVault, this stores only the items you've bought, with gems or energy.

▼Messages

And there's also the main functioning part of the game.
Basically, there is gamecode, of which EE uses, and it handles messages. A message can look like this:

"say", "I am cool". The EE gamecode handles this message, and broadcasts a message to all players. Then
the client, aka the user on the world, would handle this message. In this case, it'd display a chat message, saying for example:

TESTACCOUNT: I am cool

▼Lesson 3: Learning a tiny bit of C#

Next, I just wanna say - Learn some C#.
Don't worry, you don't have to knw all of it like the front and back of your hand before you code your bot, but if you do, it's very
helpful.

First, I want you to learn a basic amount about classes, and about a Dictionary<>.

▼A little bit of code

This is a public class. New instances of it can be created because it does not have the static modifier.
This class also has a constructor, which can be shown by the Public Player() piece of code.

public class Player
{
        public Player(string Name)
        {
                PlayerName = Name;
        }
	public string PlayerName = "";
}

This is a static class. New instances of it cannotbe created because it has the static modifier.
Rather, it can be referenced by doing

Config.BotName = "Cool Bot";

to change stuff.

public static class Config
{
	public static string BotName = "Example Bot";
	public static string BotVersion = "1.0.0";
}

This is a dictionary. We can store data with it and reference it easier.

public static Dictionary<int, Player> Players = new Dictionary<int, Player>();

We can do:

Players.Add(0, new Player(){ PlayerName = "testaccount" });

Adds a new player to the list.
In order to reference a player, you'd have to write

Players[0].PlayerName;

for example, would get the player name.

To delete a player:

Players.Remove(0);

▼Lesson 4: Using an IDE

And now that you have a basic amount of knowledge in your head,
let's get started, but first, you'll need to get an IDE, here's a direct download to Visual Studio Community 2015.

▼Quick Guide to Using Visual Studio Community 2015

Remember to follow along with the video! As soon as I start using the forums to copy-paste code, start reading the rest of the guide.

▼Lesson 5: Getting started making the bot

▼Lesson 5 Part 1: Referencing PlayerIOClient.dll

Then, you'll need to get the PlayerIOClient.dll from the PlayerIO website, it's in the .NET framework folder.
Then, add it as a reference. In solution explorer, right click on references, and click "Add Reference", and find PlayerIOClient.dll

Next, add

using PlayerIOClient;

at the very top of all of your code, or somewhere with the other "using code".
This will add the code of PlayerIOClient.dll to your project, so you can use it, and communicate with PlayerIO.

▼Lesson 5 Part 2: Logging in (Not connecting to the world!)

Now, what we want to do is log into EE.
First, outside of your code, in the class where you're logging in, you want to add

public static Client client;
public static Connection con;

This will create a public Client and Connection for use, and new instances of it cannot be created because it has the static modifier tag.

Next, we want to log into PlayerIO using the client.

string email = "[email protected]";
string pass = "ee";
client = PlayerIO.QuickConnect.SimpleConnect("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", email, pass, null);

This will tell PlayerIO to SimpleConnect (Use everybodyedits.com) into the game that has an id of "everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", using your email and password.
If you'd like to use different methods of connection, there are others:

PlayerIO.QuickConnect.KongregateConnect();
PlayerIO.QuickConnect.FacebookOAuthConnect();

Both have the same arguments as SimpleConnect, so it'd look like

string email = "";
string pass = "";
client = PlayerIO.QuickConnect.KongregateConnect("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", email, pass, null);

string email = "[email protected]";
string pass = "ee";
client = PlayerIO.QuickConnect.FacebookOAuthConnect("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", email, pass, null);

However, ArmourGames is different, with

var userid = "UserIDGoesHere";
var authtoken = "AuthTokenGoesHere";
 client = PlayerIO.Authenticate("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", "secure", new Dictionary<string, string> { { "userId", userid }, { "authToken", authtoken } }, null);

But besides SimpleConnect, all of them do not use your email and password, they require a token (and a userid for armourgames), which can be found at capasha's website

▼Lesson 5 Part 3: Connecting to the world

Next, we need to connect to EE.

string WorldID = "PWexample"; string _opt; con = client.Multiplayer.CreateJoinRoom( ( (_opt = WorldID.ToUpper()).StartsWith("OW") ? WorldID.Replace("-", " ") ), ( _opt.StartsWith("BW") ? "Beta" : "Everybodyedits" ) + client.BigDB.Load("config", "config")["version"], true, null, null);

This will connect to an open world, beta world, or normal world, it doesn't matter.
What it does, is it creates a connection by using the client to create or join a room, WorldID, and then it tells the room type, a Normal (Everybodyedits) or Beta (Beta).
Then, it grabs from the BigDB, from the table config, in the DatabaseObject config, the version, to match with the game version (214 at the time of posting this).

▼Lesson 5 Part 4: Receiving and Sending Messages

You'll need to apply this code after you have client.Multiplayer.CreateJoinRoom();

con.OnMessage += con_OnMessage;
Thread.Sleep(100);
con.Send("init");

You'll also want to create a new void, for message handling:

public static void con_OnMessage(obejct sender, PlayerIOClient.Message e)
{
	switch(e.Type)
	{
		case "init":
			con.Send("init2");
			break;
		case "add":
			Players.Add(e.GetInt(0), new Player(e.GetString(1)));
			break;
		case "left":
			Players.Remove(e.GetInt(0));
			break;
	}
}

This code, when it receives a message called "init", and sends "init2" back to connect, when it receives "add", it adds in that player to your dicitonary, and when it receives "left", it removes that player.

▼Lesson 6: Making sure you have the right code in use.

Here's the code to copy-paste into your bot:

Let's make sure you have all the code correct in your bot.

using PlayerIOClient;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace EE_Bot
{
	class Program
	{
		public static Dictionary<int, Player> Players = new Dictionary<int, Player>();
		public static Client client;
		public static Connection con;

		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			string email = "[email protected]";
			string password = "yaynoemailconfirmation";
			client = PlayerIO.QuickConnect.SimpleConnect("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", email, password, null);
			string WorldID = "PWF8rNi-8vcEI";
			con = client.Multiplayer.CreateJoinRoom((WorldID.ToLower().StartsWith("ow") ? WorldID.Replace("-", "") : WorldID), (WorldID.ToLower().StartsWith("bw") ? "Beta" : "Everybodyedits" ) + client.BigDB.Load("config", "config")["version"], true, null, null);
			con.OnMessage += con_OnMessage;
			Thread.Sleep(100);
			con.Send("init");

			Console.ReadLine();
		}
		public static void con_OnMessage(object sender, PlayerIOClient.Message e)
		{
			switch (e.Type)
			{
				case "init":
					con.Send("init2");
					break;
				case "add":
					Players.Add(e.GetInt(0), new Player(e.GetString(1)));
					break;
				case "left":
					Players.Remove(e.GetInt(0));
					break;
			}
		}
	}
	public class Player
	{
		public Player(string Name)
		{
			PlayerName = Name;
		}
		public string PlayerName = "";
	}
}

▼Lesson 7: Adding other features to your bot

Let's say you want to add other features to your bot, but you don't know how!
Like for example, adding commands!

The EE Protocol is by your side!
If you go there, you will get a list of Receive Messages and Send Messages.

Receive Messages are the messages you receive, like "add", "init", or "left".

Send Messages are the messages you'd send, like "init", "init2" or "say"

You'll also notice that each message has a list filled with the message Id, Type, Name, and Description.
The ID is the position of that piece of the message being received, like in "add", 0 was the ID of the player and 1 was their name.
The Type is the type of that piece of the message, as you could see in "add", for 0, the type was an Integer, and 1 was a String.
The Name is the name of that piece of the message. This one is just to describe what the message is all about - you don't have to worry about this in your code.
The Description is the description of the piece of the message. As said with the name, you don't have to worry about this in your code.

If you're receiving a message, and you're receiving "add", and you want to get their ConnectUserId ( which is at position 3, a string ), you'd type e.GetString(3);

If you want to send a message, for example "say", you'll need to look at what it says. The send version of the message "say" says that at position 0, you need to send a string.
So we'd do exactly that.

con.Send("say", "This is a string.");

We can also look at "b", and it has quite a bit of values, let's fill them all out to place a basic gray block ( A basic gray block's ID is 9, you can get the ID of a block by hovering over it in your block tab on EE. ) at 0x0.
It's good to know that 0 is the foreground, and 1 is the background.

//          The BlockID
//     The Y-Position  v
//   The X-Position  v  v
//   The Layer  v  v  v
//            v  v  v  v
					con.Send("b", 0, 0, 0, 9);

Thank you for reading this guide. Please leave suggestions if you have any suggestions.

▼Links

knowledge
Visual Studio Community 2015 Direct Download
Youtube Video for Visual Studio Community 2015 Useage
PlayerIO website
EE Protocol
"add" (recieve)
"init" (recieve)
"left" (recieve)
"init" (send)
"init2" (send)
"say" (send)

A side note:
Please leave your programming questions related to general C# code (that's related to your bot), or questions about your bot here, instead of creating an entire topic for them, that way the bots and programming section doesn't have to be flooded with help me topics

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capasha

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Btw. You should never send init after the "onMessage". It wont work.

"leave" doesn't exists in the EE protocol. It's "left".

And this is the way you should use for ArmorGames:

var userid = "UserIDGoesHere";
var authtoken = "AuthTokenGoesHere";
 client = PlayerIO.Authenticate("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", "secure",new Dictionary<string, string> { { "userId", userid }, { "authToken", authtoken } }, null);

Swarth100

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

It's nice that we have users working in guides, but IMO it feels a bit rushed.

I would suggest you split it uo in smaller topics with a bit more in-depth suggestions and a more complete code example (i.e. Instead on focusing on different aspect you might want to have a gradual buildup for a very simple bot on the same code)

SmittyW

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Where do I put the code? How do I start a new project? X(

Where is can I find good c#?

Tomahawk

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Yay, a tutorial encouraging people to copy paste.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Yay, a tutorial encouraging people to copy paste.

You have to start somehow. If you know a better way to teach people things though a guide, be sure to share it. (So we can copy and paste it)

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SirJosh3917

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Btw. You should never send init after the "onMessage". It wont work.

"leave" doesn't exists in the EE protocol. It's "left".

And this is the way you should use for ArmorGames:

var userid = "UserIDGoesHere";
var authtoken = "AuthTokenGoesHere";
 client = PlayerIO.Authenticate("everybody-edits-su9rn58o40itdbnw69plyw", "secure",new Dictionary<string, string> { { "userId", userid }, { "authToken", authtoken } }, null);

Fixed my errors.

It's nice that we have users working in guides, but IMO it feels a bit rushed.

I would suggest you split it uo in smaller topics with a bit more in-depth suggestions and a more complete code example (i.e. Instead on focusing on different aspect you might want to have a gradual buildup for a very simple bot on the same code)

I agree with you. This should fix it up *smashes computer with hammer* tada!

Where do I put the code? How do I start a new project? X(

Where is can I find good c#?

Ah! I havn't considered that! Adding a simple IDE usage tutorial right now.

Yay, a tutorial encouraging people to copy paste.

Actually, copy pasting is how I learn. It sounds weird, but I learn by making inferences, taking known knowledge and applying it to other known knowledge, and using a basic background knowledge of how the subject im copy pasting from works.

^But that sounds too weird my explanation, a basic example is I'm a really fast learner, you don't even have to be a teacher or experienced teacher to teach me stuff.
  ^Obviously it sounds like im bragging, and I can't help but explain it in the way that I just now did, so im sorry for sounding like I'm a bragger.

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hummerz5

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Yay, a tutorial encouraging people to copy paste.

You have to start somehow. If you know a better way to teach people things though a guide, be sure to share it. (So we can copy and paste it)

An appropriately motivated non-coder could gain the necessary information to create any of their ideas (given that they are possible on the existing system) through the PlayerIO documentation, EE message info, and the countless C#/.NET guides online. Given a copy/paste of a working bot, he or she no longer even needs the PlayerIO documentation (to a degree).

I've said it multiple times: my concern with copy and paste is that most prospective "learners" do not understand what they're facing. They then become reliant on someone else's copy/paste code.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

To be fair, having some pieces of code you can use as a base to quickly set up the project is more efficient than starting it from scratch using the documentation.
But in the end, it all depends on what you focus more on: getting stuff done/having more time for extra features, or learning programming.
I don't consider EE bots to be the best learning base, though. You mainly have to tinker with the EE protocol and PlayerIO.

den3107

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Yay, a tutorial encouraging people to copy paste.

Codecademy basically makes you copy/paste, book my brother used on university made you "copy/paste" (type over).

An appropriately motivated non-coder could gain the necessary information to create any of their ideas (given that they are possible on the existing system) through the PlayerIO documentation, EE message info, and the countless C#/.NET guides online. Given a copy/paste of a working bot, he or she no longer even needs the PlayerIO documentation (to a degree).

I've said it multiple times: my concern with copy and paste is that most prospective "learners" do not understand what they're facing. They then become reliant on someone else's copy/paste code.

It's their responsibility to look at the code they get fed and understand it. When I go to Stack Overflow I expect code, and not some fancy long prayer.
Unless you're really studying it or getting actual 1-on-1 (generally also with an actual person beside you) advise, you will not get fed code, all other moments you will, to some degree (since obviously you have to change the given code into something that fits into your puzzle).

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

^Yeah. I realize again that I've missed a golden opportunity to advertise that project i had.

wiki guide. Can't we all just agree to throw all our crap together? I mean, it'd take some editing to look good, but I'd like to see a tutorial/guide/anything from the community for the community.

but that's a personal issue? If not that, then we could sticky a topic that's actually a directory to everyone's tutorials!

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

USE AGE
▲Links
knowledge
Visual Studio Community 2015 Direct Download
Youtube Video for Visual Studio Community 2015 Useage

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Tomahawk

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Conclusion: copy/paste is good.

...

Some botters are real pros then.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Conclusion: copy/paste is good.

...

Some botters are real pros then.

Correction: copy/paste/edit
The edit part is generally where it goes wrong.

A programmer also is to copy snippets. Not programs.
Besides, when you'd be a software developer you'd get fired when you keep remaking everything while there're libraries out there that already have that functionality while your version brings nothing extra.

hummerz5

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Besides, when you'd be a software developer you'd get fired when you keep remaking everything while there're libraries out there that already have that functionality while your version brings nothing extra.

I love the thing we do on the internet where someone brings up an analogy or comparison and then it's up for validation.

If you're being paid to program, I imagine projects will rarely be "write ten lines of code [to make a snake bot]" or anything small/insignificant like that. If you grab a "library out there that already has [snake] functionality" for that small of setup, you're doing something wrong.

So I disagree with your analogy in that libraries are necessary for large or difficult tasks like making the connection to PlayerIO or hammering some perfectly-RFC-compliant crap.

But I do agree, people often seem to get stumped at the point where they copy someone else's code and find out it doesn't compile. lol

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

How do you make a bot follow a player to a world if the bot's account added the player?

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

How do you make a bot follow a player to a world if the bot's account added the player?

I guess you are talking about friends? If so. You could use a timer that check if he is online and is in a new world.
This code did I make from the ActionScript 3 from the SWF. And it works.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

How do you make a bot follow a player to a world if the bot's account added the player?

I guess you are talking about friends? If so. You could use a timer that check if he is online and is in a new world.
This code did I make from the ActionScript 3 from the SWF. And it works.

Converted to Form and hooked to my bot. It works! Thanks capasha, now I can be lazy again.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Still too complicated for me, lol. I need a tool that will do the copy/pasting FOR me and maybe this might make more sense XD.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Just leaving a question,
If I fill the world using my bot. My bot doesn't pick up any commands until it finished filling up the world.
Is this perfectly natural or is there a magic trick to avoid it?

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Just leaving a question,
If I fill the world using my bot. My bot doesn't pick up any commands until it finished filling up the world.
Is this perfectly natural or is there a magic trick to avoid it?

What I should do. Is some sort of threading for the filling. If you use threading the messages are going to work.
Also do some checking if filling is in progress, ignore people to use the filltool command until it's finished.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

What I should do. Is some sort of threading for the filling. If you use threading the messages are going to work.

If you mean using Thread.Sleep, I'm already using it.

▼VERY messy code

for(int y = 0; y <= worldy; y++)
{
	for(int x = 0; x <= worldx; x++)
	{
		blockL.Add(new block() {x = x, y = y, layer = int.Parse(cmds[2]), bid = int.Parse(cmds[1])});
		blocks[int.Parse(cmds[2]), x, y] = int.Parse(cmds[1]);
		con.Send("b", int.Parse(cmds[2]), x, y, int.Parse(cmds[1]));
		Thread.Sleep(20);
	}
}

Also do some checking if filling is in progress, ignore people to use the filltool command until it's finished.

If you mean limiting the fill command to players with certain ranks (aka owner only). It is already.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

Read here, first of all: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar … s.71).aspx

Threading allows you to do two things at once, basically. Problem is, PlayerIOClient will fire your OnMessage each time there is a message, but after you're done with the last one. I guess that's actually a good thing.

So you can't respond to a "say" message until you're done with the last "say" message. If you loop for thirty seconds, you'll wait thirty until the bot responds to the message.

But with threading (That is, using more than one thread) you can do your looping nonsense AND work on responding to the new folk. Using Thread.Sleep is not threading because you're only telling your existing (one) thread to stop.

We've had a discussion about whether or not one should use threading or timers, but I'm not sure you're up for that yet.

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

What I should do. Is some sort of threading for the filling. If you use threading the messages are going to work.

If you mean using Thread.Sleep, I'm already using it.

▼VERY messy code

for(int y = 0; y <= worldy; y++)
{
	for(int x = 0; x <= worldx; x++)
	{
		blockL.Add(new block() {x = x, y = y, layer = int.Parse(cmds[2]), bid = int.Parse(cmds[1])});
		blocks[int.Parse(cmds[2]), x, y] = int.Parse(cmds[1]);
		con.Send("b", int.Parse(cmds[2]), x, y, int.Parse(cmds[1]));
		Thread.Sleep(20);
	}
}

Also do some checking if filling is in progress, ignore people to use the filltool command until it's finished.

If you mean limiting the fill command to players with certain ranks (aka owner only). It is already.

Also if one user use the fill command. The fill command is in use. If someone else use the filltool while the filling is still filling, your bot will maybe crash.

The other thing, yes you can use thread.sleep, but if you use something like this:

Threading thread = new Threading(fillcommand);
thread.Start();

Your code will run in another thread. Which will ignore the messages. Which mean you would get messages.

MartenM

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Re: [Guide] Understanding how a EE Bot works, and how to make one.

1. Make a button on a form.
2. For the button code
   Thread.Sleep(5000); or your fill.
3. Form freezes.
4. Go to google to find out how to fix this problem and why it occurs.

That's how I found out about this problem, and how to fix it.

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