Right now they just seem to spontaneously generate. Would it be possible to have a "wormhole entering" effect whenever a bot spawned? It would add a smidgen of realism/depth to the botting experience if everytime you killed a bot another warped in instead of magically appearing.

Just a suggestion.

/me imagines herding the bots together then n00king them with an avalon.

4 seconds later...

Holy Flying F***!* It's a Pirate Fleet warping in off the port bow! Hard left! Hard left! They're firing! Nooooooooo...! *KABOMPCHSHOOOOOOOOOWWWSSssssssssss...*
*** You were destroyed by Pirate Fleet (Yarrrr...)

"Holy Flying F***" is copyright Andy Sloane 2004. All rights reserved.

Haha. This would be great. I dont think it'd be hard to implement either. Have some sector where they spawn, and have them devwarp into their appropriate sectors.

My only requirement is that they warp in a fixed amount of time after they are killed, say, 4-6 seconds... so if we ever DO get avalons back, that scenario could potentially happen.

And put the (Yarrr...) bit in there, too.

Yeah, I think if an NPC kills you they should say something...
"Yarrr..." does very nicely.

"D'yarrr" would do nicely.

how about "d'yarrr uz been owned by an inatimate object! have a nice day! :)"

That's funny, I don't remember ever saying that. But a quick grep of my irc logs confirms it, although John said it once before me.

Anyway, this would make botting slower going but it's very easy to do. Maybe I'll throw it in.

Which suggestion? Trash talking bots or warping in bots?

I hope for both ;)

a1: you said it in response to the blindfolded Mario pianist... near the end of the video.. around 9:30 in.

simon: I hope for both too. :D

Mmmm. Bot armada!

arrr ... how about an evil pirate frig bot armada :D

http://home.arcor.de/famscheffler/ven/cliptest.avi

just a test render it's not yet finished :P

would be awesome to have slightly more complex tactics like that scripted into the bots :D since with the current engines you can easily run from everyone in the game.