CP,
The .INI is not making the training task easier but rather it can force bots to learn something which they would never learn by simply 'spying' the human behavior. No .INI means less smart RB
Regarding the experience files .RBX, there are indeed linked to the nodes files .RBN. RBX simply collects information like the 'danger' of a node: whether a bot has been hit there, ...
-eric