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amazinglarry
08-22-2007, 09:40 PM
Greetings,

A few of my friends and I at work play the Beta at lunch but we can never get a team of Strogg that's all bots. It's pretty frustrating because we like to think of ourselves as fairly intelligent people, and the Server Launcher is pretty straight forward.

So, in the Bot Options we set the Minimum Clients to 8, we set 0 for GDF and 8 for Strogg. We also turn the team balance off. Problem is, when we start up the server, every single bot joins the GDF. What? We set GDF to ZERO! Why are they joining the GDF!

Ok fine, maybe the 'bits are flipped' so we set 8 for GDF and 0 for Strogg. Woo! All the bots join... GDF AGAIN!

So we tried to get around this by having 12 minimum bots, with 8 to Strogg and 4 to GDF, so that way we can just join the GDF and maybe force some bots out but again, no luck... the majority of bots are once again on GDF. Even if we try to use admin commands to move bots to the other team, it doesn't work. They'll end up "disconnecting" from the server, so the teams are either widly lopsided (GDF > Strogg) or we need to have the majority of us on Strogg. It's pretty lame.

Is this a known issue that I can't find or has nobody tried to do anything like this? I know there's a bot issue where bots won't make room for players when 'balance teams' is on but bleh. Is there a workaround if we do a .cfg server as opposed to using the Server Launcher?

Thanks!

hackjoe
08-22-2007, 10:34 PM
I just login as admin and add the bots manually. I never tried it via the server.cfg.

spirit
08-22-2007, 10:58 PM
I also noticed that the server launcher seems to mess things up.

A friend and I were trying to play 8vs6 with bots in both teams (the 2 of us + 4 bots on one team, 8 bots on the other) - this never worked, the bots always switched teams until there was a total of 8 players on OUR team (regardless whether we were GDF or Strogg) and 6 bots on the other one. They would never allow us to be on the team that had less players.

It works when I set things up in the main menu via the 'play computer'-button though.

amazinglarry
08-23-2007, 01:35 AM
Yeah the bots work fine 'play computer' but naturally it's not possible to play a LAN game with friends that way. :/

amazinglarry
08-30-2007, 08:40 PM
Nobody else have any idea as to whether this is a known issue and will be resolved or?

Babylon
08-31-2007, 02:07 AM
set bot mode to "fill"

if you will be playing with 5 humans set GDF to 5 and strogg to 5.

When you join you can swap players around to one side...with admin..

pls ask if you need help witht eh admin...its dealt with separately......