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.

[VSG]

Thank you for the detailed information and for your assistance offer, RoboCop.

Found out that my hosting provider (for game servers) was shamelessly sabotaging my Source servers, because they didn't like that I had to downgrade on March to a cheaper option, and I guess they didn't like the bots either, although my 10 game servers used about 25% cpu of the 4 shared cores server, never more than 30%.

They also did other nasty things like removing my bf2 and FEAR combat files, no warnings, disabled root access, disabled backups...

Before that situation, I never experienced so many Rcbot crashes, I was using an outdated version (a Nightc0re's 2015 build), but as a matter of fact, neither DoDS & HL2DM haven't been updated since (except for Steam Deck?). They were running fine and dandy.

The name of the hosting company is gamed.de, so you can be cautioned. I will be migrating all my games to Hetzner now, it's going to be some intensive work.