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[gerdawg]

Wanna spill the beans? I'm interested in putting a (clanxgi.net) bot in there so we can get a little more activity on the site. Can you give me some pointers of how you made it possible?

Also register up for the new site and tell me what you think

[deFain]

I don't have a bot in there. You mean a server bot of course. There is one out though. You can add it to your vanilla Q4 server. It runs as a mod and you can have more than one in there. You can get it at:

http://quake4.filefront.com/file/Sabota8;52204#Download

..and it comes from

http://www.oakbots.co.uk/

..and a discussion about it

http://www.oakbots.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=7

[gerdawg]

yes...I mean a server bot.. silly. 

Does it take up a bunch of resources like the CSS ones do? I'm just looking to get one in SPEC mode only, we get a lot of traffic on XGI and I would like to post the website, etc...

[deFain]

= Performance =
As a rule you generally want performance over graphics in multiplayer games anyway, and throwing in CPU eating bots means you may want to consider dropping details down a bit.
i.e. High special effects and shadows off, dropping down resolution. Have a look for Quake 4 tweak guides on the net.
As well as experimenting with how many bots your system can comfortably handle.

I've never run the bot-mod. This is a quote from the author.

[gerdawg]

Ok me is throughly confused.

If you look at the game server browser from XGI - http://www.clanxgi.net/index.php?name=GameServers&do=query&server_id=5

It always shows these guys as being "on" the server..

Fain      109 
 TURKEY.COM      83 
 URL      101 
 SEFT.COM      77 
 untDown      0 
 tyFilter      105 

Hows that work, I thought it was a bot that was added, but the replys don't match up. Just wondering how it was done.

[deFain]

Ok me is throughly confused.

If you look at the game server browser from XGI - http://www.clanxgi.net/index.php?name=GameServers&do=query&server_id=5

It always shows these guys as being "on" the server..

Fain      109 
 TURKEY.COM      83 
 URL      101 
 SEFT.COM      77 
 untDown      0 
 tyFilter      105 

Hows that work, I thought it was a bot that was added, but the replys don't match up. Just wondering how it was done.

I saw that. Those are parts of the admin info.

such as...

//--------------------------
// DEFAIN'S Q4 SERVER
//--------------------------


si_name "^2NEW! ^4Rails Rails Rails ^2v1.1"


//-------------------------
// Broadcast INFO
//-------------------------

sets ".Admin" "DeFain"     
sets ".Host" "ESCAPEDTURKEY.COM"     
sets ".Location" "Texas"     
sets ".URL" "PLANETRELOAD.COM"   
sets ".Mod" "BASEFT.COM"

//--------------------------
// MAIN SETTINGS
//--------------------------

It appears that the game viewer is getting mixed up. Maybe because of the mod?

[deFain]

by the way, like right now, 6 players on the server and their names are not being shown on your viewer but are being shown on q3px and here: http://planetreload.com/quake_join.html

[gerdawg]

Damn that sucks. For a second I thought you had something good going on there, only to find out I have something bad going out. Life's not fair. HEHHEHE

I guess it's time to go back and take a look at that code and see if it can be parsed diffrently or better yet ignored.

Thanks Dev.