Server Help

dhall · Newbie Joined: Jan 04 2006 Posts: 4 Offline

two questions -

1. When in a zone in SS, I can see that several bots are currently running in the zone. Is there a way for me to tell what type of bot each of those is? (meaning for a given zone, 'bot1' is a MERVbot, 'bot2' is some-other-bot)

2. Is there a good location for me to get source code for various bots being used in SS currently? (i.e. latest MERVbot src code, etc.)

Lastly (I know I said two originally! =P), can someone give me a high-level view of how bots actually interact with the client and server? For example, for a given zone, I know there are several bots running in that zone, however I only see one (or maybe 2) bots physically logged in. How does this work? Are there 'sub-bots' that piggy-back on the 'active' or 'logged-in' bots, and if so, how do these sub bots interact with the parent bot, and in turn with the client and server?

D1st0rt

dhall · Newbie Joined: Jan 04 2006 Posts: 4 Offline

so is there a difference between a 'bot' and a 'bot core' - other then the fact that a bot core is capable of running several bots, each in their own thread?

Also, from what I've seen, most bots run as a sysop users. I thought I had read, or heard, somewhere that there was a cap on the number of sysop users a given zome could support, although looking at it now, that doesn't seem to be the case. Is there a limit on the number of sysop users a zone can support (thus limiting the number of bots a zone could support)? Are there any other limitations on the number of bots a zone can handle?

Solid_Fire · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject:

You can have as many sysops in a zone as you want, and there is a specific amount of bots allowed per arena/zone.
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D1st0rt · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

The specific amount of bots allowed per arena/zone is the same as the amount of players allowed minus the number of players in the arena/zone. For a zone, this would be how many player id's the server can assign, which I believe is like 32,767 (they are signed right? because you can get id of -1 in a packet?) For an arena, if the bot isn't on a staff account it has to obey the max arena population. Otherwise, any bot that is in the zone can be in that arena.

Feel free to correct anything I've overlooked.