Mercator

Mercator

The Communication Robot

Description

Mercator is a trade bot which has been enhanced by VinoVeritas to provide additional information or communications functions, some of which used to be provided by Gossip bot.

For suggestions about Mercator's functions you can leave VinoVeritas a Message either via his bot or via PM.

Bot for Mercator also has a web interface, for info: web interface With it you can get

• Announcements
• Invances
• Special Days
• Lottery Results

Misc Commands

Note: Normal trade bot commands suppressed from list.

<text> needs to be replaced with your input all other bold words needs to be written after /mercator help - Displays list of commands help <command> - Displays help for that command (exact syntax) loc - Displays my location info - Displays some information about me tell <player> <msg> - Sends a message to player ignore add <player> - add player to your personal list from whom you do not want to get tell messages ignore del <player> - deletes player from your personal list from whom you do not want to get tell messages ignore list - shows you your personal list of people from whom you do not want to get tell messages isonline <player> - Displays if player is on-line and if not when player was last on-line instance <number> - Provide number out of (60 80 100 110 120) range lists people who can do the instances that start with the said number instance <start> <end> - List of on-line people whose A+D/2 levels inputs are start and end numbers members on <guild> - Shows the known members of guild who are on line members all <guild> - Shows the known members of a guild guildies - Shows people on line from your guild guildies add <player> - Tells mercator that player now belongs to your guild (person walking by mercator has same effect) guildies del <player> - Tells mercator that player left your guild (person walking by mercator has same effect) tellme add <player> - Tells mercator to notify you if player logs on or logs off tellme del <player> - Tells mercator not to notify you if player logs on or off tellme list - Lists all players and their on-line status that you have in your notify list about me - Shows information mercator has collected over you about <player> - Shows stats and on-line status of player. admire <player> - Send player an anonymous admire announcement - last 10 blue Server - or mod messages specialday - Tell you when and what last specialday was specialday <string> - Tells you when last specialday which matches the written part of your String occurred. lottery - Shows last El Lottery winner treasure - Gives Information if the treasure was found. pear - Gives Information if the pear was found. invance <level> - Level e.g 100-120 shows you last recorded 20 minutes Broadcast for Invance 100-120 skill <name> <min> <max> - Mercator sends a list of (on-line) players with min-max level in a skill. Where <name> stands for the first three letter of a skill such as: att, def, har, alc, mag, pot, sum, man, cra, eng, tai, ran <max> is an optional attribute. myskill combat - Returns your current combat level

Moderator only commands

mods all - List all mods and their online status mods add <player> - Add a mod player to the mods list mods del <player> - Deletes a mod player from the mod list

Note: unimplemented commands suppressed from list.

Preference settings with mercator

are controlled by pref command and you can see and set various preferences via sub-commands.

pref list - Tells you which preferences you can be set pref instancelevel <number> - Set your instancelevel to this number in case you have privacy on (game or bot) and want to be found for instances pref privacy on - Turn off shouting your stats. pref privacy off - Turn off shouting your stats. pref Specialday on - Turn on sending Emails about specialdays to you pref Specialday off - Turn off sending Emails about specialdays to you pref LoginGuildies on - Turn on showing your guild mates who are online pref LoginGuildies off - Turn off showing your guild mates who are online pref tell on - Enables message forwarding left for you in pm pref tell off - Disables message forwarding left for you in pm (messages still get stored if off) pref admire on - Enables telling you if someone admires you pref admire off - Disables telling you if someone admires you (messages get not accepted) pref profile line1 - Changes the first line of your mercator-biography Available are 5 lines

How to access the Mercator Information Center

• Create a password in game. PM mercator with pref password <password>
• Use a different password from the one you use to log in for security reasons !
• You get a message with: [PM from mercator: Your Password is set,]
• Visit : http://holy-eternalland.de/mercatorweb/
• There is a menu bar item called Login/Logout. Click on it to get a login prompt
• You can now log in with your in-game-name as username and your password set in the PM above.
• You have now access to your MessageBox, Settings and On-line List.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

How can I ask Mercator what my combat level is ?	/mercator myskill combat
How can I ask Mercator to calculate my instance level ?	/mercator myskill instance
How can I appear on the instance list without giving up my privacy ?	/mercator pref instancelevel <your instance level>
	you can manually tell Mercator your instance level
a	b	c	d

Example: Assume your attack level = 50 and defence level = 51

 #calc (50+51)/2

Result = 50.50

 /mercator pref instancelevel 50.5

• How can i set my privacy to OFF ?

 #set_privacy off

• How can I find players to go to instance with ?

Mercator is checking the stats of players online who have their privace set to OFF

 /mercator instance <lowest level> <highest level>

Example: Assume you want all players listed who are between a/d level 100 and 120

 /mercator instance 100 120

• How can I leave a player a message who is not online ?

 /mercator tell <playername> <your message>

Example:

 /mercator tell SolarStar I just wanted to say hi ^^

• I want to check my Combat Level regularly, how can I do it without sending a PM to Mercator every time ?

First you must create an Alias. Choose a number you can remember easily. For example 10.

Create your alias now:

 #alias 10 /mercator myskill combat

Execute the alias which you saved under number 10

 #10