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TomTom · **Re: SW_Goldrush_te -** 09-10-2007

Since Crapshoot may not visit regularly I'll try answering.

Some of your complaints are not specific to the waypoints. Currently Fritzbot ET only properly supports damageable vehicles that are specific to one team. This is why the waypoints for supplydepot2 are not released yet. Mal apparently tried in January (when he had some spare time) to create a vehicle fix but it compiled buggy and he has not had time since.

As to manning an enemy vehicle mounted mg even in bobots your bot team mates will still attack the tank just like many human players carelessly do.

The barbed wire is another behavior that can't be fixed in the waypoints. The waypoints simply tell the bots whether it is ok to navigate along the road. But the bots do not depend on the nav nodes when they are close enough (500?) to the objective (healing) or when fighting. It would be nice if the bots better understood various dangers in the map but I don't know if Mal has any plans in that area.

Offhand the only thing that a waypointer can do in your list is try to improve the focus of the engineers to blowing the barrier (by turning the vehicle support off and disabling all other priority engr actions and routing the engineers through safe paths avoiding fights).

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TomTom ET Waypointing team member Status: Offline Posts: 745 Join Date: Jun 2006	Re: SW_Goldrush_te - 09-10-2007 Since Crapshoot may not visit regularly I'll try answering. Some of your complaints are not specific to the waypoints. Currently Fritzbot ET only properly supports damageable vehicles that are specific to one team. This is why the waypoints for supplydepot2 are not released yet. Mal apparently tried in January (when he had some spare time) to create a vehicle fix but it compiled buggy and he has not had time since. As to manning an enemy vehicle mounted mg even in bobots your bot team mates will still attack the tank just like many human players carelessly do. The barbed wire is another behavior that can't be fixed in the waypoints. The waypoints simply tell the bots whether it is ok to navigate along the road. But the bots do not depend on the nav nodes when they are close enough (500?) to the objective (healing) or when fighting. It would be nice if the bots better understood various dangers in the map but I don't know if Mal has any plans in that area. Offhand the only thing that a waypointer can do in your list is try to improve the focus of the engineers to blowing the barrier (by turning the vehicle support off and disabling all other priority engr actions and routing the engineers through safe paths avoiding fights).