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zodiac

Mar 26 2004, 08:49 AM

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I recently was browsing through forum at Serverspy and spotted a whiner on the subject of people abusing bots in order to bring up their Georank.

The link to this interesting conversation can be located here:

http://www.serverspy.net/site/forum/topic....d=129&replies=6

Hope this works. For the details check out the link, here is my comment reply:

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Just wanted to make a comment. I hear alot of slamming on BOTS in particular it seems as though they have gotten very unpopular with "live" players. I think BOTS are fine to have on a server as long as they are not abused,sure having a server consisting of a majority of BOTS is probably not the best and might make it unfair to other servers that are "BOTless". I know of alot of legitimate servers that are known as BOTless servers that use BOTS as a buffer until "live" players show up, especially servers that are just starting out. If there is nobody on the server then nobody wants to play it is simple as that, how fun can playing with yourself be? I have found that the join a server rate is practically 0 with a new server unless there is at least 4 players on it. You cannot expect a Game server to be a hit overnight therefore you have to get players in there somehow. The truth is unless you have a known reputation on the circuit it is impossible to get people to play on your server unless there are pre existing players on it. BOTS defintely are useful for this purpose and yet does not steal ranking positions.

Whatever happen to the days when you can enjoy beating the computer?

If the link does not work the path is:
Webmasters and Server Admins>Server Rankings>Why are bot servers ranked the highest?

Would like to address the forum and get your feelings on this conversation, should be interesting. Hope you guys don't mind me addressing another forum but the subject matter applies to all of us on this forum using bots.

Gruuunt

Mar 26 2004, 10:29 AM

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ok I have added my 2 penny-worth to that forum as follows:

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So what you are saying is that BOT Servers have no right to be more popular than some-one who has no BOTs?

My Bot Server is Generally in the top 5 of my Geo-rank and occasionally in the top 50 or so of the world rankings. I run 4 bots out of a maximum of 15-slots so I would hardly call that being full of bots.

I average 1000 players per day, and have had 22300+ since I started in January. No-one in their right mind could say that they were all bots surely?

I agree with the points made by Zodiac, and I think it would be massivley unfair to negate servers with bots on purely because they are there. Fine, if the bots are removed from the count by the lack of a steam id and the final count of human players become the count that is used. This would then be a fair rating I believe. So please Pierre could you do it this way if possible?

On a final point I do give the players who join my server a huge clue that it is a bot server they will be joining and not just the fact there are 4 clients there. Its called:

Gruuunts uk Combat with Bots V3 Beta 3
82.68.100.90:27016

Nuff said

I hope other members of the Bot community will do the same as Zodiac and I ...

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