Bots

Starting from version 1.0.3 bot 1, the server admin can put bots on the server. The bots are currently very simple but still fun to play with.

Overview

Bots work properly only on simple maps where rooms are not separated to different parts by walls.
Bots are fast shooters.
Bots use quite a simple strategy.
Bots can’t cope well with a great number of power-ups (at least one in every room).
Bots don’t understand the friendly fire.
Bots don’t understand locked flags.
If the server is full, bots don’t give room for an incoming player.

The bot settings are in the gamemod file.

Range	number of bots, 0–32
Default	0

The minimum number of bots in any situation.

Range	number of players, 0–32
Default	0

The server adds bots so that there are always at least bots_fill players.

Range	1 to enable, 0 to disable
Default	0

The balance bot is used to keep the number of players even.

Range	integer, 0–500
Default	0

This is the bots’ ping. The smaller it is, the quicker the bots react. Over 100 makes them act very stupid in some situations.

The server admin can manage the bots also by console commands.

/bot	Display the bot commands and current settings.
/bot add n	Add n bots.
/bot remove n	Remove n bots.
/bot fill n	Set the `bots_fill` setting to n.
/bot balance s	Set the balance bot `on` or `off`.
/bot ping p	Show or set the bot ping. This does not change the ping of the playing bots.

Updated 2006-02-19 – Jani Rivinoja