BrutalCombo tips,hints & tweaks

Sharigan-jutsu wrote:

kenichiro wrote:

Before you run the combats, make a copy of it. Run the original, then replace it with the copy and run again.

I keep a copy of the data that I last ran combats, but I don't use for the next day because I usually create more pupils on the working copy. I make a copy right before I run the combats then repeat the steps in the first paragraph.

OK, so if i understand. the copy of yesterday will be the original of tomorrow.and after you make the figths you make a new copy rigth?

Cps.

In short, yes, but Bob's method is much easier.

bamb@m wrote:

has anyone tried making an extra full copy of bc so you can run two different files through combats at the same time? considering it takes me about eight hours per day to run combats on my computer running one file at a time based on my connection and re-running each file 2-3 times, I figured I'd try two at once. I don't see much slowdown in the operation, so it looks like it runs faster overall. I will update when I am done running all my data.

I usually run up to four different data files through combats at once.

@kenichiro:

wow, I wish I had a fast connection like you I wish I had thought of this sooner, so I could spend less time fighting each day.




and one question about running data for brutes when the file is not updated. say, like stsin, you have a file with all brutes listed at lvl 1, even if they are lvl 10, does bc make them fight a lvl 1 opponent first before it realizes they are actually lvl 10 and then run the other two fights against the appropriate opponents? does it basically make you earn a maximum of 5 points per day for a pupil even if you win all three fights?

bamb@m wrote:

has anyone tried making an extra full copy of bc so you can run two different files through combats at the same time? considering it takes me about eight hours per day to run combats on my computer running one file at a time based on my connection and re-running each file 2-3 times, I figured I'd try two at once. I don't see much slowdown in the operation, so it looks like it runs faster overall. I will update when I am done running all my data.

I use to run 3 separate ones, but now I made it into 1 big one.
Reason was my modem couldn't handle the amount of requests.

Level of the brute in the file doesn't matter. During combat it looks up the level.

ok, thanks for that info, neutrino. I won't worry about it in the future then.

bamb@m wrote:

@kenichiro:

wow, I wish I had a fast connection like you I wish I had thought of this sooner, so I could spend less time fighting each day.




and one question about running data for brutes when the file is not updated. say, like stsin, you have a file with all brutes listed at lvl 1, even if they are lvl 10, does bc make them fight a lvl 1 opponent first before it realizes they are actually lvl 10 and then run the other two fights against the appropriate opponents? does it basically make you earn a maximum of 5 points per day for a pupil even if you win all three fights?

It checks their actual level before selecting opponents. If it didn't, copying data files wouldn't be efficient. Unless copied them back after training, which you don't have to do.

I also run simultaneous BCs for training, adding to the advantage of doing them on the faster connection. But if I do 3 or more, have to turn off torrents or it may lock my router, lol.

Running BC combats simulatenously will depend on the speed of your internet connection. Usually, one BC combat takes around 70k-100k "bytes" per second and thats roughly around 1Mbps internet speed.

You can still run multiple BCs but the combats for each data folder will be slower. So if your connection is really fast like example 8Mbps or more, then runnning 8 BCs or more will be smooth and faster.

i usually run 4 BC combats in parallel for 3Mbps connection and 4-5 virtual pcs doing pupil creation.

Running BC seems to use up 300-600+ ports each. Pic 1 is training with two BC's.

Looking at that, realized that I lowered the max ports long ago...for some reason that I forgot.

Changed it back to 4096 in pic 2.

And now it's much better as shown in pic 3 with more BC's training :)

So may want to check your router and set it to max ports if planning on running multiple BCs for training.

I'm using a cheap $30 Linksys with DD-WRT firmware.

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i usually run 4 BC combats in parallel for 3Mbps connection and 4-5 virtual pcs doing pupil creation.

combats no problem due to my 14mbit connection... but how do you run more than 1 BC to create pupils with only one internet- connection?

or do you have more than one connection?

I'll bet he does, since his setup looks like top-of-the-line stuff, but I figured out how to use the same IP address on four brutes at the same time (on two different servers, of course) and I have already tested it and it works flawlessly