Bots and "other" game engines

[botmeister]

Are there forums for any of these bots? If so, then it would help to drop by and chat with people, let them know what we're up to.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Go for it, HangFire!



I've been visiting the jvbot website, a script-based multiplayer bot for Medal of Honor. It has a very active forum. It won't be easy to attract them in our Half-Life centered community. That's what scares me the most. These other bots won't feel at home. We need to be attractive for them. See how much trouble it is to get a HL bot maker to open just a forum here ? Cpl. Shrike for example is saying he wants to keep his current forum...

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

Go for it, HangFire!



I've been visiting the jvbot website, a script-based multiplayer bot for Medal of Honor. It has a very active forum. It won't be easy to attract them in our Half-Life centered community. That's what scares me the most. These other bots won't feel at home. We need to be attractive for them. See how much trouble it is to get a HL bot maker to open just a forum here ? Cpl. Shrike for example is saying he wants to keep his current forum...

Same for me I don't want to move because my site is on esf itself, and I don't want to lose all my forum posts . afaik invision free won't let you transfer your stuff to another forum...

[Onno Kreuzinger]

well then we should start to propose new organisation structures, i.e. not all should (have) to decide on everything. and each one of the council/mods/admins involved should be ready to do considerably more administrative (no not on the server *g*) work, like writing nice public documents, organise threads and build working teams to accomplish task like: re-organise the forum to fully reflect the comunity we want to become. make a decent start page which is not only optimised for google but also distinguishes us from other "amateur" boards. (i.e. become more than a board and individual project hosting)

but thats a lot of work not everyone might have expected when comming here, in turn i saw more than one regular here who can shurly do a lott, if BU finds a way to steer that into the "right" direction.

just my thoughts (4,5 cents *g*)

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

that's worth more than 4,5 cents, memed.

It's the role of the president to steer all this in the right direction! President Stefan!! where are you when we need you ?

We need to work together and
1* Make a list of documents to produce
2* Dispatch tasks
3* Put deadlines

Open a thread dedicated to this here in the Agora where people would post their requests about the documents they would like Bots United to feature ?

[botmeister]

I think I read somewhere that Stefan's internet got cut off which is why he's gone missing.

I agree a restructuring is needed. In order to attract outside of HL. We'll have to start talking about generic bot AI that can apply to any type of game engine.

For example, if we look at the "united bot" idea, there's a whole lot of design work that can be done which has nothing to do with HL and may be very attractive to people who are working outside of HL.

I think the "united bot" thread which is here
http://forums.bots-united.com/showth...=9080#post9080 should be made into a forum of its own, and prioritized as THE primary technical project of Bots United. If we succeed, it will be a great acheivement in collabration and something that can be applied across game engines - and hopefully serve as a bridge for cross game engine bot develoment.

Note: Please check out my latest post in the united bot thread. I have some new ideas showing how we can actually build a cross game engine bot.

*whew* I need to relax now.

[stefanhendriks]

goals:
- get a non-hl coder here and interested to join BU
- get ourselves into other game worlds, dig new information sources.
- get a start with United Bot