EnergyMech

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:13 pm

Just an info gathering post really.

Has any of you guys ever used an energymech? I keep seeing people talk about them but have never really messed with one. I guess i am biased with eggdrops.

Are they any good?

r0t3n · Post by **r0t3n** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:38 pm

I tryed energymech once. Buts it takes up quite abit of CPU. Its a good bot tho. I would try it again actually.

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:09 am

It's like you can load many energymech bots on IRC with just 1 process loaded into the background. So the more bots you have connected to IRC with that single process the more CPU RAM that background process consumes.

Moreover the energymech is a simple bot as compared to the eggdrop. The eggdrop has alot of customizable features, settings unlike the energymech. So in conclusion it's just a more simpler bot.

Post by **caesar** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:25 pm

The 'thing' that makes eggdrop 'have alot of customizable features' is the TCl support. I know that emech support it too, but not as much the eggdrop dose.

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:37 pm

I once installed energymech for a user but never actually used, I think it supports other languages too (not sure though).

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:27 pm

well the energymech guy states that "3.0 is almost here", and 3.0 supposedly supports Tcl, so it might be worthwhile to take a look at it

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:19 pm

Thanks for the info guys. I might give 3.0 a go on a rainy day

LorT · Post by **LorT** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:31 am

energymech 3.0 is out....

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:57 am

it's out indeed, but from the brief look I had at the source and rather scarce docs, it seems to me that it comes nowhere near eggdrop's versatility, flexibility and rich Tcl scripting interface

IMO, the multiserver feature may very well be the only advantage energymech has over eggdrop

Post by **caesar** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:58 am

Then I'll just wait demond's review about it.

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:38 am

caesar wrote:Then I'll just wait demond's review about it.

you missed it by one minute

seriously, a proper review implies actually running the bot, which I'm not too inclined of doing right now

Post by **caesar** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:42 am

Heh, just noticed. Who said I'm in a rush?

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:14 pm

However I have heard energymech's are more stabler than eggdrops and have also experienced that in the eggdrop uptime contest on eggheads.org. Them being more simpler, not alot of sophistications, reduction of source code could be one of the causes.

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:37 pm

awyeah wrote:However I have heard energymech's are more stabler than eggdrops and have also experienced that in the eggdrop uptime contest on eggheads.org. Them being more simpler, not alot of sophistications, reduction of source code could be one of the causes.

Then off you go! Test away. We all wait with bated breath.

demond · Post by **demond** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:29 am

the uptime contest doesn't mean much, it's not representing most of the bots on Internet, only a limited subset; and even within that subset you can't draw conclusions since host machines differ significantly - I mean running a bot (eggdrop or energymech or whatever) on a private host that never reboots with the only user being you and load averages of 0.01 is one thing, and running a bot on a public shell where dozens of people run their bots too is obviously completely another