[crossfire] New bot flag

Andrew Fuchs fuchs.andy at gmail.com
Sat May 20 14:06:00 CDT 2006


On 5/20/06, Nicolas Weeger (Laposte) <nicolas.weeger at laposte.net> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just added a bot flag, for players.
>
> To activate it, a client just has to send "bot 1" (or anything atoi will
> recognize as non zero) through the "setup" command.
>
> When activated, this flag will make the player have a proeminent "[BOT]" in
> "who" output, and more important this player will not be counted in
> statistics sent to metaserver.

Both will probably help players a lot, once the bots adapt the flag.

> This lets us send only relevant information to metaserver, real players :)

Unfortunately, some servers seem to purposely boost their player
count, so new players will connect to their server.  This IMO should
be taken care of at the metaserver.

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Andrew Fuchs



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