Bots! Avoiding, playing or improving them!

A lot of people are quickly looking for a way to avoid servers running bots, though they serve as fillers until real players hop in

This guide is about bots, from how to avoid them to hosting a server (local or online) with them on, and even how you can help the community by learning and improving them through waypointing!

Very WIP guide!

A small notice to say this guide is a WIP!

It'll be improved step by step!

What is a bot?

First things first!

A bot is a computer-controlled player, ran by the server

It will follow some instructions, by the bot mod and the waypointer who wrote precise, per-map instructions

You can easily check if a player is a bot with its ping: 0!

Else its behavior...

Finding bot-less servers

(I have to check again but i believe ET: Legacy has a filter for this)

As said in the introduction, have in mind some servers only have bots during low-activity hours, so don't discriminate them too fast!

The only vanilla way is to use online trackers such as SplatterLadder or TrackBase to filter-out bot servers

Links:
https://et.splatterladder.eu/?mod=serverlist (Properties tab)
https://et.trackbase.net/serverlist/

Hosting a game with bots

You want to have some offline action, or play a LAN with friends but you're not enough? :/

Then just add bots to your game!

Most of the stuff is available through the official Omni-Bot (OB) Wiki:
https://mygamingtalk.com/wiki/OMNIBOT_-_Enemy_Territory_Modification

Installing OB:
https://mygamingtalk.com/wiki/Template:Install_Omni-bot_ET

From there, you'll be able to host a game and play with bots!
You can even tweak them if you find them too easy/hard with their default behaviour! ^^

Making and editing bots: a quick kick-start introduction to waypointing

As of now this section will just supply links, will be improved!

Forums: https://mygamingtalk.com/forums/forum/82-omnibot-development-and-discussion/

Wiki: https://mygamingtalk.com/wiki/OMNIBOT_-_Enemy_Territory_Modification
Including the page to download the SVN repo: https://mygamingtalk.com/wiki/Assembla

Project page with SVN repo to be up-to-date: https://app.assembla.com/spaces/omnibot/subversion/source

Extras

A few sample(s) of what can be achieved through advanced scripting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovtVMg1Q_Jw

[>M@tEo$<]

You're right, updated, thank for the heads up!

[⎛⎝[FN] Der Meister⎠⎞]

Domain has changed to et.splatterladder.eu

[>M@tEo$<]

How so?

[⎛⎝[FN] Der Meister⎠⎞]

SplatterLadder is not useful anymore

[SlenderKnirpZ]

Oposite I am.I prefer often Servers withz Bots!