-3 ping in warez all the time?

[Sixen]

Hmmmm.. Wasn't really sure where to put this, so here it is. It was either here or the BnetDocs research forum, ahwell. Has anyone ever tried to ping themselves in "warez"? Apparently no matter what your ping is -3, any ideas why? :/.

[Barabajagal]

What the hell are you using to ping yourself?

[Leaky]

this thread is irrelivent considering blizzard removed warez... you can't even get into it with 0x0C anymore

[brew]

this thread is irrelivent considering blizzard removed warez... you can't even get into it with 0x0C anymore

False. You always could and still can join the channel warez with 0x0C.
As for getting the ping, I would imagine, by parsing the ping value within a EID_FLAGSUPDATE chat packet received while in that channel? Probably from unsquelching your own username.
Sixen: Since -3 is an extremely strange value, I suggest you review the code you use to determine ping within your bot.
@Ripple: Nice avatar.

[warz]

oh snap - FALSE

[Barabajagal]

Thanks, I've been improving my site's UI a bit... Still no graphic artist, but hell.

As for the claims on this page:
Ping works fine. You don't get flags update on yourself when you unsquelch someone. I got my ping using emote, and it was correct.
You can force your way into warez no problem.

[Sixen]

Technically this isn't "Bot Development", it's more of a general Programming question.. Or something of the sort. I was simply using StealthBot, joined warez, and pinged myself. However, I just heard that -3 is the default ping on SB, which would make sense.

this thread is irrelivent considering blizzard removed warez... you can't even get into it with 0x0C anymore

False. You always could and still can join the channel warez with 0x0C.

QFT.

[brew]

Technically this isn't "Bot Development", it's more of a general Programming question.. Or something of the sort. I was simply using StealthBot, joined warez, and pinged myself. However, I just heard that -3 is the default ping on SB, which would make sense.

-3 is the default ping on Stealthbot? That's pretty amazing, especially considering how you don't have to wait some 4294967293 milliseconds to get that value.

[Warrior]

Technically this isn't "Bot Development", it's more of a general Programming question.. Or something of the sort. I was simply using StealthBot, joined warez, and pinged myself. However, I just heard that -3 is the default ping on SB, which would make sense.

-3 is the default ping on Stealthbot? That's pretty amazing, especially considering how you don't have to wait some 4294967293 milliseconds to get that value.

I love what brew has become. His sarcasm levels are unprecedented.

[Sixen]

-3 is the default ping on Stealthbot? That's pretty amazing, especially considering how you don't have to wait some 4294967293 milliseconds to get that value.

I'm just going by what was said to me, I have no idea. If I knew, I wouldn't have made this thread, .

[brew]

Could it be -1 instead, by chance?

[Barabajagal]

Brew... you do realize Stealthbot was written in VB6, and uses Longs for ping values, right?

[UserLoser]

Brew... you do realize Stealthbot was written in VB6, and uses Longs for ping values, right?

Still doesn't make sense because the server would have to be telling the client the ping is 0xfffffffd for it to be -3.  I'm yet to test this my self so has anyone else verified this ?

[Barabajagal]

It's stealthbot specific. You can never get yourself in a warez userlist because flags update doesn't update your own flags. If you use emote to get your ping, it returns the correct ping. In stealthbot, if it can't find your ping, it returns -3 apparently.

[brew]

Brew... you do realize Stealthbot was written in VB6, and uses Longs for ping values, right?

Of course I do, why wouldn't I realize that?

Still doesn't make sense because the server would have to be telling the client the ping is 0xfffffffd for it to be -3

Hrmm. That seems to be exactly what I said, except I said it in decimal. You would have to wait 0xFFFFFFFD (aka 4294967293) milliseconds to get the value of -3 ping. Sorry Andy, but nice try on making me sound stupid