Welcome to the largest IRC game written in the mIRC scripting language! Battle Arena is a game in which you join together to kill monsters and bosses to gain orbs and new weapons/skills/techniques. The game was heavily inspired from the Devil May Cry and Final Fantasy series; though it includes more than just DMC/FF monsters/bosses/weapons/items. The whole purpose was to make an mIRC game that is completely automated in terms of the battle system (there doesn’t need to be a DM around to do !next and control monsters).

Here players join the battle when the bot announces an open battle. After a few minutes, it will generate monsters/bosses and have them join the battle and the battle will start. When it’s a monster’s or boss’ turn, they will automatically do their things. When it’s the player’s turn, there’s a few commands you can do (attack with a weapon, attack with a technique, do a skill, use an item). If the player idles for too long the bot will force their turn and skip over them. This is done so that someone can’t disappear for an hour and cause the battle to drag on forever.

There’s a bunch of weapons that can be bought and each weapon has a few techniques attached to them. . You buy weapons using black orbs when you obtain via winning boss fights and being alive at the end of one and then upgrade your weapons, skills, and techniques using the red orbs you find by killing monsters.

That’s really the gist of what the bot is.

The zip contains everything you need to run the game. Make sure you unzip it into a folder like C:\BattleArena\ and if you need help, read the README.txt that's included. If that's not enough help: http://battlearena.heliohost.org/doku.php read through this wiki as that might help you out.

Enjoy!

VERSION 3.1 changes/additions/fixes
Due to the size of the changelog, I won't post everything here. If you want to see the full list go here: http://battlearena.heliohost.org/doku.php?id=version_3.1 The following list is just some of the bigger changes/additions/fixes:

• Added the Dragon Hunt system
  The game will now generate special dragon monsters that hide in lairs. Players must use !dragon hunt to hunt for and discover these lairs to face the dragons within. Leaving the dragons alone is dangerous as they can kidnap NPCs for the evil forces.

• Added the Bounty System
  The game will pick a random boss from any boss in the \bosses\ folder. If this boss is defeated before the bot picks a new boss an orb bonus will be applied to the battle.

• Added the Torment Battle Type (aka Endgame)
  Using Torment Orbs players can enter a 3-wave battle against any enemy in the game. Winning will result in items that can be used to craft high level equipment and items. Torment Orbs can be crafted using a new misc item, Death'sBreath and higher Torment Orbs result in harder battles but more rewards.

• Added Dungeons
  These are special battles that can be activated once per 24 hours by using special keys bought in the shop once the new shop NPC shows up. The dungeons have a variety of monsters and bosses within as well as unique accessory rewards.

• Added an October shop
  During the month of October players can accumulate CandyCorn and spend it in a special Halloween shop with unique items and armor.

• Added new Augments
  Several new augments have been added into the game.

• Added a Resting Bonus
  For every 1 hour that a player isn't in battle the player will receive +150 orbs to their next battle. Note that at least one battle has to have happened before the player can start to accumulate this resting bonus.

• Added Breakable Objects to Battlefields
  There's a 25% chance that one will spawn on certain battlefields. Although they are technically monsters, they don't get turns and only have 1 HP. Just break them to help boost your style.

• Added Info Upon Logging In
  Upon logging into the game players will be greeted with a bit of information including the local bot time/date and how much of various currencies he/she has. A message of the day (admin message) will also display if an admin has set one.

Changes:

• Changed the code for techs and items so that you can use ME as a valid target name to target yourself
• Changed the warmachine boss battle type to no longer spawn additional monsters alongside it
• Changed the boss "Magus" to "Maou_Magus" to stop an exploit with the trust NPC Magus.
• Changed the "TechBonus" augment so that it only applies to non-magic techs
• Changed the code for checking for an item drop so that it's centralized in one spot
• Changed Player Access commands so that players must have logged in within the last week in order to be controlled.
• Changed PVP battles so that bot admins can specify a level cap for players to enter under. Use !startbat pvp # to set the cap
• Changed the skill Speed to consume 10-25% of a user's HP based on the skill's level
• Changed portal items so that they cannot be used if Shenron's Wish is on.
• Changed the maximum resist-skill that a player can have in a dungeon to 50, down from 100. This does not include accessories.
• Changed certain boss battles to hopefully give a slightly bigger orb reward
• Changed certain bosses/monsters/summons/npcs to have the ignore elemental message flag
• Changed some modifiers on certain monsters/bosses
• Changed gold chests to remove Big Whoop from them and to read from the black chests for portal items
• Changed ignitions to remove str/def/spd down as people were abusing that
• Changed the technique Torcleaver to not be magic and made its AoE damage and TP cost match the -jaII spells
• Changed the guardian style to be capped at level 5 in dungeons and portals
• Changed the streaks you can use a portal item on to 1-20. Anything higher will block portal usage.
• Changed the elemental weapon to use attack_elemental.txt since they don't technically use staves/wands
• Changed healing/battle items a little bit
• Changed elementals to use different techs based on streaks (a minor change)
• Changed the way the shop displays certain error messages and what it says when you use !shop by itself.
• Changed the way summons and clones work when summoned outside of a portal battle. Now they are skipped
  on the round they are summoned on and will only take action on the following round.
• Changed the "Battle open" message to show the current winning/losing battle streak at the end of the line.
• Changed HP healing items to work on a percent amount of a target's max HP rather than a static value.
• Changed portal battles so that the allied notes reward is split by the number of people who enter the battle
• Changed the shop so that the maximum amount play can upgrade a weapon via the shop to is level 250.
• Changed the armor equip command so that players do not need to !unequip armor before !equip armor
  The bot will automatically remove the old armor before wearing the new one.
• Changed the shop so that shadow portals show up on their own line
• Changed the max amount of portal items players can use per 24 hours to 10 (up from 8)
• Changed the AI slightly to try and prevent NPCs from using techs that will heal monsters
• Changed the AI slightly to try and prevent NPCs from using techs that would inflict the same status a monster already has on
• Changed the code for how the bot generates the deathboards.
• Changed the bot so that if the streak is automatically reset to 0 the next battle will be an AI vs AI battle
• Changed the max amount of enhancement points for HP
• Changed !npc status to be color-coded. Red means kidnapped, maroon means not found yet and green means at the HQ
• Changed code so that +1 accessories, weapons and armor all show up in blue. Legendary weapons and armor will show up in orange.
• Changed code so that Torment reward items (Horadric and crafting) show up in orange in the items list
• Changed the max level of the skill OrbHunter to 30. However, the base cost from 21+ is 2500 per level instead of 250.
• Changed the cost of the Orb Bonus potion effect
• Changed the chance of certain special bosses to occur
• Changed the orb penalty for Spirit of the Hero to be not as much
• Changed many lines in translation.dat to be consistent with equipment and weapon colors

Fixes:

• Fixed a typo that was preventing ignition augments from working right
• Fixed a typo in !misc info
• Fixed an issue with !view-info and the pokeball summon item
• Fixed an issue with %enemy in a provoke skill description not showing the right name
• Fixed an issue with "Conserve TP" showing up in both status and skill lists. It should only be in skills now.
• Fixed an issue where a person who was asleep would still get an extra turn occasionally
• Fixed an issue with the DTrigger ignition description
• Fixed an issue with charm not wearing off immediately if the charmer was erased due to multiple wave
• Fixed an issue with berserker NPCs
• Fixed minor issues with the various damage formulas
• Fixed a potential bug with the monster list
• Fixed a portal battlefield limitation issue that could be exploited
• Fixed the "On the Edge" achievement so that it actually gives the Super Potion item correctly
• Fixed the elemental spell totals in misc info being counted multiple times on AOEs
• Fixed a bug with orb rewards for players who are far under the streak and not using SotH
• Fixed a bug in which fists were being calculated wrong for their damage (being counted twice, basically)
• Fixed a bug in which NPCs who had mechs would try to use them in no-mech battlefield conditions.
• Fixed a bug with en-spells counting towards the elemental spell totals in misc info when they shouldn't have been
• Fixed a bug in which the elemental messages for en-spells were not showing upon melee hits
• Fixed a bug in which npcs and trusts weren't being killed in portals that had no-trust or no-npc set.
• Fixed a bug with AI vs AI battles when NPCs used shadow copy
• Fixed a bug with AI vs AI battles in which if the streak was less than 0 it wouldn't work properly
• Fixed a bug with !flee not counting the number of times fled properly
• Fixed a bug in which provoked NPCs may try to attack dead targets that have been erased due to multiple waves
• Fixed a bug in which player clones would die if they were summoned before a no-trust or no-npc portal battle happened
• Fixed a bug with the enhancement point shop that might prevent certain skills from showing up in the shop
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the wall of flesh from ever being chosen
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to get around the melee penalty if the same weapon is used twice in a row

Removals:

• Removed the elements from NPC weapons
• Removed attack_Aettir.txt, and attack_ChatoyantStaff.txt as they are no longer needed
• Removed the Elder Dragon boss battle type

Again, this isn't everything. Be sure to read the versions.txt in the documentation folder for a full list of everything or check out the changelog URL.