Bots not spawning

[Padwen]

Total noobie here, so stop reading now if you get annoyed by dumb questions.

Running a dedicated server under steam. I want to use the min_bots and max_bots settings to always keep a number of bots playing. The problem is that bots are not spawning.

min_bots 0
max_bots 14

max players on server is 24.

If I add bots from the server console they spawn and play, but eventually they all get kicked and the server is empty again.

Now, if I add a number of addbot commands to the podbot.cfg file, new bots are added when the map changes, but bots are not being added otherwise.

I must be missing something obvious...

[sPlOrYgOn]

what version are you using?

[Padwen]

POD-bot 2.6 metamod. 5/11/2004
MetaMod 1.17.2
admin_mod 2.50.60

plus a handfull of plugins

don't know if it is related, but after running for a while the server crashes with this message:

Fatal Error - Dedicated server
SZ_GetSpace: Tried to write to an uninitialized sizebuf_t: ???

I've got podbot.cfg set to addbot seven times, just to get some bots in the game.

[sPlOrYgOn]

yea that version has some problems with min_bots and max_bots.
it's best to update.
goto the thread that's called something like Come Here to get the Podbot2.6mm in the main pb2.6mm forums

[Padwen]

Okies, found PodbotBETA.zip dll 8-15-2004, we will see how it goes. Thanks for the replies.

[Padwen]

Still no good. Bots still not spawning. min set to 0, max set to 23, 24 players maximum on server. As an experiment I added 23 bots. When I added the 24th bot the server console was spammed with a message that maximum number of bots had been reached. It was stuck in a loop. Any suggestions?