@100 Bots at one server.

[optic delusion]

Looking at the server list I see eight servers with a 200 player limit. (and they are all currently empty)

Would it be possible for one of those servers to start using, let's say 100 bots?
What is to prevent me from signing on with 100 bots?
Would it be better if ten players signed on with 10 bots each?

....just a conjecture....

[Winny]

how come you put almost this same thing in another section of the forum ?????

[optic delusion]

The two topics are not the same. Completely different.

[(Un)Guided Missile]

Your CPU would need to be pretty powerful to cope with all those bots...

[Winny]

ya I can run about 5 bzflags on my pc with a 3.2ghz cpu and I use about 80% cpu time then

and my videocard gets hot

[A Meteorite]

ya I can run about 5 bzflags on my pc with a 3.2ghz cpu and I use about 80% cpu time then

and my videocard gets hot

Ever hear of -solo?

I'm starting a private server and seeing how many I can do...

[Winny]

solo doesn't work on mine for some reason.........

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C:\bzflag\bzflag.exe -solo 10

that is it right

[Spazzy McGee]

i'v run 50 bots locally before. it's not too hard going on my dual G4 1GHz

[optic delusion]

Lets see what it loooks like spazzy. Let's see, where's meteor...

[A Meteorite]

Let's see, where's meteor...

Right here.

I'm running 100 bots (1 as observer) and then minimized the BZFlag window. It makes my 2ghz G5 float around 50% usage. It's also around 70°C. (seems high, but it's always like that)

Right now it's on a private server, once my main one settles down I will add 50 bots for kicks. (and see how people react ) Only problem is, that BZFlag crashes on me if it sits idle too long in the Dock.

[Winny]

you guys are nuts

see unlike you I like not to fry my computers

[A Meteorite]

you guys are nuts

see unlike you I like not to fry my computers

Well, I don't know exactly what the normal temp. is on a G5...

Is there a way to have BZFlag not output any graphics? Just have the Terminal sit there and stare back at you.

I know you can specify the server address in the command, so wouldn't that be possible?

[Winny]

you can just set your bzflag to all low video settings you

could also turn off openGL

[A Meteorite]

you can just set your bzflag to all low video settings you

could also turn off openGL

Hmmm... I turned everything off and quality is at low. I even turned effects off. CPU still hovers at 50% and 70°C.

How do you turn off OpenGL? I don't see any settting in-game. (though, I am on a Mac )

[Winny]

well then you may be stuck ( don't even know if a mac has that, shows how little I know about macs)

I know in windows I can do that in settings in advaned features

[A Meteorite]

Woah. I restarted my server and tried bots, but when the bot logs in, not one other bot does. But I don't get kicked either.

[sid6.7]

Looking at the server list I see eight servers with a 200 player limit. (and they are all currently empty)

Would it be possible for one of those servers to start using, let's say 100 bots?
What is to prevent me from signing on with 100 bots?
Would it be better if ten players signed on with 10 bots each?

....just a conjecture....

its not polite to logon to someones server with BOTS
some poeple will ban you if you do...get permission
first...

i've banned a number of folks for this...generally
a week... if its only 1 time they try it...

[optic delusion]

I know it's not polite, but I went ahead and did it anyway. David's Boring Server, seemed like it needed some excitement.
I checked that the server was empty first, then tried 20 bots, but it seems like 12 is the limit. Tried to get someone else to sign on with more bots, and they could not. Some real players joined, and actually, it seemed like that server has a 20 player limit, even though it's advertised as 200.
My lag stayed under 300 most of the time, but did jump to 600 more than once. I removed the bots in under ten minutes, all three times I signed on. The first time there were still ten players on the server an hour after I left.

I just wanted to see what would happen, I was hoping I could get 50, or more, bots. Apparently, I cannot.

[Spazzy McGee]

this is making me doubt wether david has the bandwidth the says he has.....

[The Knights Who Say Ni]

and also if you did do thand it was a public server then the server would go stright to the top of the list as it has 101 people on

[BinarySpike]

Yeah, bot's should have a special identifer and shouldn't be counted.

[The Knights Who Say Ni]

yer it could be miss-leading or you could set it inside the coding of the server that it dosent allow more than say 20 bots connect but with that many and your self (21) that would still put you up in the top 10

[(Un)Guided Missile]

Hmmm... I turned everything off and quality is at low. I even turned effects off. CPU still hovers at 50% and 70°C.

70 is normal

I'll try on my Dual 2.5GHz G5 in a mo...

[(Un)Guided Missile]

I couldn't do any more than 50 without it becoming laggy either...

[optic delusion]

So try to get more than one player to sign on with bots at the same time.

David has dropped his player limit to 20, and seems to have figured out a few other settings as well. So if he had a twenty player limit, and I could only get 12 bots, I wonder if the server limits bots to 3/5 of total players.

If you crash anybody's server, you must accept responsibility, and post about it. Really, we should be asking them first, I already think I should be punished for suggesting this.