K-Logic 19 Posted June 2, 2016 So, I'm sure it has been brought up before, but why no bot for a single person in a server? It'd be nice to just go bang bang a bot that doesn't give any exp or points to our ranks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MisterTurkes 544 Posted June 2, 2016 no 3 Jiffy, Cman and slyfox reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
K-Logic 19 Posted June 2, 2016 but war3 is love. war3 is life. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bite 367 Posted June 2, 2016 Bots are too strong dood Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Face 1910 Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) I'm pretty sure this has been discussed in the past (probably before my time). @skitt @thorgot @bulletford any particular reason other than "it isn't worth the effort to prevent xp and shopitems/make sure people don't find a way to exploit"? Edited June 2, 2016 by Face Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EL_PATRON 1344 Posted June 2, 2016 It would be cool if the bots could play different races, like a lawnmower just rushing at you haha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Face 1910 Posted June 2, 2016 1 minute ago, EL_PATRON said: It would be cool if the bots could play different races, like a lawnmower just rushing at you haha By default they play random races with random levels. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thorgot 2420 Posted June 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Face said: I'm pretty sure this has been discussed in the past (probably before my time). @skitt @thorgot @bulletford any particular reason other than "it isn't worth the effort to prevent xp and shopitems/make sure people don't find a way to exploit"? Three reasons. They ignore invisibility, so the "fix" is to transform your invis to damage evasion when bots shoot you. This is lame but not enough of a reason on its own. They don't use active abilities at all. Making an intelligent way to make them use them would be difficult. Making them use them randomly would be pretty easy and a good-enough solution. Controlling a bot was a huge disaster in terms of switching races midround back then, though this has definitely improved a lot. It's also possible sm_cvar bot_controllable 0 would fix this issue entirely by preventing bots from being taken over. We didn't know about that cvar or maybe we tried it and it didn't work. I'm not against the idea of having bot_quota 4 or something like that. If nothing else it helps get past the classic problem of nobody wanting to join an empty server. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zip 1034 Posted June 2, 2016 2 hours ago, EL_PATRON said: It would be cool if the bots could play different races, like a lawnmower just rushing at you haha shadow lurker bots w/ aimbot? yeee Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turbulance 105 Posted June 3, 2016 How about All bots randomize from a pool of races that do not have active abilities/ultimates. Like undead scourge, flame pred, angel of light, etc. IF we wanted to be super douche's and make it even more challenging give all bots ultimate immunity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Face 1910 Posted June 3, 2016 I'm just gonna be honest, I really don't think this is something worth worrying about. Typically the server sits at 0/1 players or it very quickly climbs to 6+. I don't think the bots will change very much or make playing alone any more enjoyable (when there is 0 benefit). 4 Smash, MistaChang, Agent and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yiyas 66 Posted June 4, 2016 (edited) It's been empty all day today, I wanted to play because I heard y'all got good EU ping now but it's just nigh impossible to get the server started for 3/4s of the day. Keep in mind people searching for servers will often completely ignore empty ones, leaving only regulars the ability to start up a server population. Oh, you also get no XP if you are the only person in the server, reducing any benefits to being there to zero. The main issue when the server has only a couple people in it is the huge imbalance of skill and/or levels. Edited June 4, 2016 by Yiyas 1 Aero reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aero 1427 Posted June 5, 2016 18 hours ago, Yiyas said: It's been empty all day today, I wanted to play because I heard y'all got good EU ping now but it's just nigh impossible to get the server started for 3/4s of the day. Keep in mind people searching for servers will often completely ignore empty ones, leaving only regulars the ability to start up a server population. Oh, you also get no XP if you are the only person in the server, reducing any benefits to being there to zero. The main issue when the server has only a couple people in it is the huge imbalance of skill and/or levels. LORD YIYAS HAS SPOKEN! 1 Yiyas reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turbulance 105 Posted June 5, 2016 He's not a lord anymore he's just an oldfag like Junzou but ya..I agree with what he said. 1 Yiyas reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites