Kurgan Posted July 23, 2005 Author Posted July 23, 2005 I changed it to 6 before I left. People are paranoid though and don't know about /serverstatus so they always demand to know if there are bots, etc even when there are none. It's because people don't instantly reply and go "no, I'm not a bot!!!" because they are busy playing, poor typists or non-english speakers. Razor I think in the next update you should add a bot reply matrix keyed to words like "bot" so that the bots will reply to inquiries about the # of human players in the game, just to further confuse these guys.
razorace Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 Well, I don't know about that. I don't really want to force people to play with bots thru frauding them. If they can't tell the difference without the bots lying to them, they won't care anyway.
RpTheHotrod Posted July 23, 2005 Posted July 23, 2005 I play multiplayer to play with people. If I wanted to fight AI, I'd play singleplayer again I grew up completely alone. I don't join a multiplayer server to play alone. I enjoy people's company. I cannot stand bots, and I refuse to play in a server with one.
acdcfanbill Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 same here, i hate playing bots, and i hate it even more when servers try to hide which players are actually bots. /serverstatus was a nice way to know on JA+ servers, but most people dont know, and continually talk to them or complain about them and it gets annoying
razorace Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 *shrug* I've only done it because it was requested by server admins (since people never join a server unless it's been "seeded" first.) and because I wanted people to give the TABbots a chance.
Lathain Valtiel Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 Originally posted by Kurgan While I'm gone the rest of this week, Lathain is in charge. *Cue lightning and thunder effects followed by maniacal laughter* Er... Hehe? Incredibly, few people have misbehaved. I've only had to kick bots who occassionally keep running into walls and only turn around when an enemy gets near them. And then they only seem to do it in the Imperial Drop Zone CTF map. I still maintain that they are killing machines with a disruptor and plenty of ammo though.
razorace Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 I've redone the bot routing for most of the basejka maps and done a bunch of tweaks for theobsticle avoidance code as well. Once I'm finished I'll upload everything to the server and we can see if that fixes most of the problems.
Kurgan Posted July 31, 2005 Author Posted July 31, 2005 Looks great Razor! So far the bots seem vastly improved and they rarely get stuck anywhere on the maps I've played. Now they just need to be able to use inventory items. Btw, the server now has ASTEROIDS MOD goodness, so feel free to join us for some Siege Destroyer 2.0! Get the mod from pcgamemods.com or lucasfiles.com!
Kurgan Posted August 1, 2005 Author Posted August 1, 2005 Well, I know that Sunday night/Monday isn't exactly "peak time" for JA, but how come more people don't want to play Asteroids Mod? I had exactly 1 person join for a game. Are people just not interested anymore?
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