Bots filling server

[snowman]

I'm hoping someone has the answer to this question.

I enabled bots on my server so you (and me) have something to do while waiting for others to join. The only problem is that after a few map cycles the server would fill up with bots. (actually.....it would fill up plus one)

Now even I know it's a hack that I must have in my base3 folder, but does anyone know what file it is?

I deleted one called todds that seemed out of place and a few more that were just numbers, but it's hard to tell what are maps and what are bots cause they're all pk3 files. I notice I had one on today called "cash". I looked and can't find a file for that anywhere.

Help a stupid snowman out please

[*Nastyz00m*]

Do you have enemies snowy? It looks like someone is after to bully you with all these hacks. : (

and dont ever say you're stupid, whoever did this is stupid.

[snowman]

I think this is something that I've had in my folder for a long time. I most likely picked it up when I use to have autodownload enabled.
(Kinda like the zz stuff)

It's been ok all day so far. Maybe i got rid of it by deleting the todd_bot stuff.

We'll see.

[*NastyJR*]

pk3 files can be opened with any zip program and looked at, each map should have it's own bots? someone correct me here if i'm wrong

[*NastySaw*]

snowman said:

It's been ok all day so far. Maybe i got rid of it by deleting the todd_bot stuff.

We'll see.

Spoke too soon. Ten bots and counting. I never saw this before. I'll post a query at Q3World.

[snowman]

I looked at the log and it appears they didn't start showing up until someone actually joined the server.

I turned off bots until I can get this sorted out.

[*NastyJR*]

when i had looked there were 5 bots, i noticed in settings you have it set to 2 weird how it overrides the setting, but then i guess if given the command it would just add more, whats also weird yesterday was max players is 9 an 10 bots were there and normally you can join a server and it just kicks a bot, i tried and it wouldn't let me join instead i got the cd key crap at times and other times it would just say it was full

[*NastyJeff*]

Was JeffBot there?

[*NastyAuri*]

Was auriBot there and fragged JeffBot?

Rhetorical question

[*NastyJeff*]

Hey! The bots want to play also.

[snowman]

I took away some Karma from you.....

[*NastyJeff*]

Wow, look at yours, the number of the beast....it all starts to make sense

[*Nastyz00m*]

lol now you play nicely boys! teehee...

[kaustic]

To answer Jr's question ,no maps arent assigned bots. If you unzip/unpack a map pk3 file all you should find are the following folders and text files- maps,textures,scripts,models and levelshots and possibly a readme text file or 2. As far as the funky bot activity on your server goes ,someone or something has or is re-writting the server config file. The config file has been corrupted and you need to go in and re-write the portion concerning bots.Once you'e gotten it corrected make a backup incase it happens again.Your baseq3 is easy to fix.I dont remember what exactly is in the baseq3 by default after a clean install (1.32)but basicly you should only have the pak0 thru 8 ,q3config, q3key and maybe a screenshots folder. Every bot file I have in my baseq3(custom bots) starts with the word bot or bots. For instance bot-spawn ,bots-aeon_flux. Custom models are md3 files(md3-aeon_flux). Map files you should know.

[dday]

Wish I could help with the tech part, but it's good to have bots enabled. It's actually a lot of fun playing 3 v 8 against the bots. It's good team practice.

[Snowbot]

Not when they're filling up the server so no one can join..

[Mik3y]

hmm

try to make a ceprate quake3 you just use for ur server.. and clean out the mod you use..

this way you can dd any map to baseq3 or any file to the mod that you want/might people to have.

Mik3y <3