THANK YOU BOTMAN

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

With this new year 2004 arising, it's also THE big guy of the scene who bows to the public and retires...

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~botman/yabb/YaBB.pl

I would like to take this very moment to rally everyone wishing to offer a big

THANK YOU

to the godfather of the Half-Life bot scene:

Jeffrey 'botman' Broome.

Without him, no bots in TFC, no bots in Counter-Strike.
Without him, no HPB_bot. No POD-bot. No RealBot.
Without him no such a community of developers always willing to help each other out, hacking the HL SDK all around the place.

botman, we all owe you a big thanks for keeping alive your forums so long, for your friendliness, your constant advices to newcomers, for being what you were: always the guy to ask to, who has always a kind answer for you. I just hope the story isn't completely over, and that we'll see you often here at Bots United... anyway...

We all unite to wish you a wonderful life full of beer and Barneys, lots of Barneys (and lots of beer too), the best luck in your carreer as a game developer, lots of lines of code, to get married with a gorgeous botwoman if you aren't already and have a lot of little botmans. Don't work too much, also: remember that all work and no play makes botman a dull bot !

God I hope the story isn't completely over: please come here as often as you can !

botman, man, man, we will m*thaf*ck*n miss ya !!!

[@$3.1415rin]

is there anything to add ? I don't think so ...

THX for everything

[stefanhendriks]

what to say? :'(

[botmeister]

I'll add "A great role model for us developers to look up to"

[Rick]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo :'( :'( :'( :'(
Ah well you've been nice and especially helpfull to everyone as Pierre said

botman, man, man, we will m*thaf*ck*n miss ya !!!

:'(
Hopefully you will hang us much around here as you did on your own forum.

[Bluesman]

Yeah, thanks for everything Botman!

What PMB said

[botman]

Thanks guys! I had been thinking of shutting down my forum for several months since the traffic was gradually decreasing and since I didn't have much time anymore to check it everyday with all of the stuff going on here at work (Gearbox). Unfortunetly, I can't discuss what Gearbox is working on right now, but I thought it would be better to make a "clean break" than to let my forum linger and have people posting questions to me that never went answered.

Anyway, change is GOOD! Change makes us grow, learn and experience new things. So don't think of it as a sad thing, think of it as new oppertunity to make something better.

botman

[Nova]

Originally Posted by botman

Thanks guys! I had been thinking of shutting down my forum for several months since the traffic was gradually decreasing and since I didn't have much time anymore to check it everyday with all of the stuff going on here at work (Gearbox). Unfortunetly, I can't discuss what Gearbox is working on right now, but I thought it would be better to make a "clean break" than to let my forum linger and have people posting questions to me that never went answered.

Anyway, change is GOOD! Change makes us grow, learn and experience new things. So don't think of it as a sad thing, think of it as new oppertunity to make something better.

botman

Well, but hopefully you will still answer or occasional call for help
I think I speak for everyone here when i wish you all the best, good luck with your work and hopefully well see you around from time to time.

[-=RAV=-AdrianShephard]

man botman was one of my personal heroes he allowed me to play games like tfc and all the other retail hl mods when i had crap internet..

too bad he must leave :'(

THANK YOU BOTMAN!