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...