Hi KWo,
thanks for your effort for reactivating my account.
Here are a couple of Suggestions, experience feedbacks or even ideas, which i have come across after years of running servers and running podbot. I will put them all in this single thread for a better overview.
1. weird..after all those years, i found out a few days ago that if there is only 1 player on server and he is VIP on a map like
as_oilrig: when he reaches target (helicpter spot) , all bots auto-die. This late discovery might be due to the fact that as_ maps are unpopular and i haven't installed any of those maps untill recently on a new cs server. Since there are two ways for bots to autodie (player death, NoClip) i would suspect user goes into NocLip mode after reaching target but i am not sure.
2. Man..years ago i asked for a plugin on another forum that would reset round when a player joins server while only bots are playing. No one likes to watch bots playing, even more so on large or 3rd party maps where it takes a very long time for bots to finish.. Then the player has to sit there for minutes and watch bots playing until the bots finish the game. They leave of course! It's a no brainer and probably one of the biggest problems with podbot. Since connor (i think it was him) gave me a plugin that has been working flawlessly for years, i never mentioned this big issue to you. Let me search...
here:
A plugin that i would appreciate (round restart)
I don't really understand how you could let users watch bots playing for minutes, which is the case for any default PB user as i understand. I think if i hadn't had this plugin i wouldn't even have used podbot all these years..as great as podbot is. There is
no way CS players will watch bots play for a longer time. They leave! This is a fundamental issue.
3. As requested in a PM, i would ask for the
Noclip Autokill feature to be removed. Gameplaywise there is no reason at all for killing bots after user goes into NoClip. And this causes big problems in Mods where e.g. users can go into NoClip as a SuperHero or where users can buy NoClip from a buy menu.
Thanls
KWo for developing PodBot, which has become legendary and known worldwide
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