Bots only joining when a player connects Options

[trizmorrow]

Hello, I have an issue with the bots.
They only join after a player connects.

I've seen many servers for HL2:DM and DOD:S that use RCBot2, and they are able to keep their bots on 24/7 without requiring any players to connect. I would also like to do the same if I knew how.

Thanks.

[RoboCop]

Hello, sorry for the delay but the RCBot2 to join after reboot is the last thing on our mind.

The recent VScript update for TF2 update from December 2022 made some negative impacts on RCBot2 as the server crashes, especially when a human player joins - even if the bots aren't spawned yet.

Also, I will be making some improvements to the DODS waypoints as most of them are poorly designed. I had to upload some RCBot2 Youtube guides on how to manually repair waypoints that were not designed to allow bots to run from cover to cover in wide-open areas that make them easily exposed as prime targets. I even had to reroute the pathways to allow them to directly obtain bombs from a pile of explosives like in dod_strand - which allows bots to focus on their main objectives properly. Also, I had to make sure those waypoints in the respawn rooms had one-way paths to allow them to emerge from their spawns and instantly proceed forward to complete their missions. Besides we don't our bots to wander in their spawns for too long.

Keep in mind for making RCBot2 work, it's important to be aware of some side effects of the latest Source engine updates and that AlliedMods needs to keep their HL2SDK updated for them to provide us with the essential SourceMod support. But the thing is with DoDS, TF2 and HL2DM as the headers from HL2SDK don't appear to be compatible with newer standards at C++17 or above because AlliedMods haven't modernised nor updated the header files for newer compilers and we had to revert by undoing the modernisation of our RCBot2 source code.

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