Sending Meat

[JGefell]

I'm having trouble sending meat out to get my morning Ode. It used to send the meat, but then the buffbot I was trying to use went on hiatus or a bit and I had to change. Now that I've changed names, it doesn't want to work. I've tried a variety of different things and nothing will work.

Examples of things I've tried

csend 15 meat to NoblesseOblige;
send 15 meat to NoblesseOblige;
cli_execute("csend 15 meat to NoblessOblige");
cli_execute("send 15 meat to NoblesseOblige");

when the name was kolabuff the message would send, but I never got my buffs as mentioned before. If i try to use just the send command mafia returns "please use csend if you need to transfer meat". I've also tried just running this line on its own via the ash command. What am I doing wrong?

 

[slyz]

Unknown Player: NoblesseOblige

 

[lostcalpolydude]

/who noblesseoblige
Unknown Player: noblesseoblige

You need a space in the name. Additionally, mafia automatically converts to non-philanthropic buffs, so it will send 2615 meat instead of 15 meat. Even though 1500 turns of ode is useless (but it makes sense for everything besides ode).

 

[JGefell]

can I stop it from sending so much meat?

 

[nworbetan]

Here's a little script I use to send multiple buff requests at once. You'll need to open the file and set the buffbot name before you run it. It's not very sophisticated, but it gets the job done. If I weren't lazy I'd probably make the script stop and complain if the buffbot wasn't online.

Additionally, mafia automatically converts to non-philanthropic buffs,

I've never used a public buffbot like Noblesse Oblige with my script so I'd never seen that happen, is there a way to specify philanthropic buffs?

 

[Rinn]

http://kolmafia.us/showthread.php?4048

 

[Catch-22]

acquireBuff can be used very easily for this, as Rinn has posted.

It's possible to send requests for philanthropic buffs but there's a reason why the roadblocks were implemented in mafia in the first place.

Here's a bit of history.

Edit: If you wanted to take the "don't be an asshat" route, there's several buffbots that run non-philanthropic "Ode to Booze" buffs in smaller quantities (NotBot, SevenLances_com, Tinkerballa). In these cases, automating a send for the non-philanthropic price shouldn't get overridden.

To be more specific, sending 67 meat to Tinkerballa should result in 25 turns of "Ode to Booze".