I have just played a quick match on chr's test server, and I noticed, maybe some bots were playing. Dunno though, but they were such an easy prey.

Currently only the name doesn't show corretctly, if it's a bot or a human player. I remember the first time I played q3 online, I was playing and having fun on a server, owning a guy, who's name Doom. Then I realized, I was playing against a bot

So how about nameing the bot in the next version with [BOT*]TheNameOfTheBot or something like that? This way everyone should know, it is a bot.

owned brutail

Its not tjhat hard. If you play agains a player with the same name as the model, its a bot. And yes. There are two bots on the server to make its possible to test the charging nexgun without opponenents. I think Kadaver is working on some code to make the bots disconnect if real players connect, a minimum number of players or somehting.

Still I'd like to see a separete very clear name for a bot.

I don't think adding [BOT] is a big thing to do.

I think that bots should have normal names so that you can't really tell. You have to notice the AI traits to tell that it's a bot. Afterall, if you can't tell the difference between a bot and a player then the AI has passed the turing test.

Wrong... in any quake-based games I can clearly divide humans from bots in 1-2 minutes...

1.:
Bots do not strafe-jump. Most ppl do.

2.:
If you own them, and try to help to play better, bots do not reply, or is they do, you can recognise it.

3.:
If they ge REALY 0wn3d, most ppl levae the server. Bots don't

I support C.Brutail's suggestion. I think it is good to know if a player is a BOT. The name prefix is good, but it should be impossible to set a player name with this prefix.

It could easily be a server variable.. anyone?

From what little bot-code i have seen so far this should be rather easy but this is soooo low priority... Maybe a variable holding a botname prefix with default "AT-" would even be funny..

esteel wrote:From what little bot-code i have seen so far this should be rather easy but this is soooo low priority... Maybe a variable holding a botname prefix with default "AT-" would even be funny..

Yes it ouwld..

If you say the word "bot" many times over, it loses all meaning. Bot bot bot...

C.Brutail wrote:Wrong... in any quake-based games I can clearly divide humans from bots in 1-2 minutes...

I never said you couldn't. This was my point too. If you can tell the difference between bots and humans anyway, why have [bot] names? I don't think they're such a good idea as it spoils part of the illusion that they might be a real person.

I've just been on a server called 'All out war' or something which had [bot] names. It's also running a whole load of other custom settings I haven't seen before. The physics are different for a start.