Hey hello. Just thought I'd check in and say, thanks for the super positive response. Links are a good place to start, I've already got a link to the Bots United forum on the Marine Bot forums, and a link to Bots United on the UA Marine Bot page, and on the official Marine Bot web site is in the works as well.
If you are interested in the official Marine Bot website, this is the url for that:
http://www.marinebot.tk/
(currently down... >
oh well, as they say, "stuff happens"
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Links are a good place to start, but I would like to see if we can get something more out of this relationship eventually. Honestly I don't know what, I have some ideas, but they are just ideas at this point and I'd like to hear other ideas. No stress on this one, and I'm in no big hurry, I just want you to know that if you think of something tangible that UA/Marine Bot can do for you, or vice versa, let me know and hopefully, if we have good ideas, we can all do something to implement them.
On the brainstorming/dreaming side, the community here would be the ideal place to start once HL2 is finally released, to pull together a team to create a bot template, like Botman's HPBot, for HL2. That is, of course, if it isn't released with its own bot template. And if HL2 is released with a bot template, then this community would be the ideal place to start looking for teams to code bots for new HL2 mods.
Alot of "ifs" and "maybes" in there I know, but this is the sort of thing I am thinking of right now. There is a great pool of experienced coders here that could potentially move on to create some great bot mods for HL2, or other platforms, providing of course that HL2 is as mod friendly as HL is, and if it isn't, then I am sure there will be other game platforms that are also mod friendly... or maybe HL will continue to be the modding king for some time to come...
Anyway, as I was saying above, I'm just brainstorming...