Bot names wanted

Tequila · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

Hi & welcome RailedRobin,

I'm just adding new names as I just want to get rid of some limitations involved by the little number of bot names. I'm also trying to fix few bugs in the code. But I don't trying to tune each bot character... So you're free to tune the bots Wink

Lucky Bro · End User Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 143

Tequila · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:16 am Post subject:

Why don't fix ? Because that's not really a bug but a feature... Okay I said that's a bug in my first post in that thread, but I was wrong and I apolozige for the confusion.

By the way, I always can add any bot I want with the addbot command. I can also change the bot name with the addbot command.

I agree the problem is not critical, but if we can just extend the game by extending a name list, that's always easier than fix the code. And in the same time I was showing people where we can easily enhance the game with simple contributions, without coding skills Wink

And again, I thank people who gave their name list, and I thank in advance RailedRobin for his work on AI tuning.

torhu · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject:

I would have to agree with Lucky Bro. Smile

I like how each skin has it own name. To me it would look better to have several Clints on the same team, than to have Clints with different names. The limited number of bot names also means that it's easy to know who's a bot and who's not. Even Clint 2 and Clint 3 would be ok if that's easier than fixing the code, at least then you know it's just the Clint bot.

ReD NeCKersoN · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject:

Lucky Bro · End User Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Posts: 143

Oh, I don't mean to debate Smile

But since I have started it, let me close this debate as quick as possible Smile

The limitation of maximum start bot number could be fixed right when someone of us will have free time and wish to do so.
And current job with bunch of new names could be used right at the moment when we'll need it. It seems that Robin get some success on his work, so nothing is wasted.
And Tequila even may just replace some current bot names with new ones (with Robin's patch applied). As a small present to upcoming 1.1 version (with ReD's permission, of course Wink

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I hope debate is over Smile

RailedRobin · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

I've actually had Tequilas work with names in mind when tuning the current bots, which should make it rather easy to add new bots and still get variety in their behaviour.

Don't know if you want me to explain more in detail what I'm doing and how the bots and botnames work, and not sure if this is the right topic for it, so I'll leave it be for the moment. But simple put, the current version of SG uses one set of files for all the bots, it's just the names that change. I've just added more sets to be used, without limiting them to one bot or another (apart from male and female versions).
So when Tequila is done with all the names, all he, me or anyone actually, has to do, is just change some text in a .txt file and use the .pk3 I'm putting together (If it's approved of course Wink

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The only "problem" right now is the limitation of skins available, which can lead to what you've been discussing about different bots with the same skin. But I guess that is something we can discuss in the texture-forum Wink

MegaByte · End User Joined: 14 Jul 2010 Posts: 19

Correct me if i am wrong and it does exist I do not know where to look yet but it would be good to have a text file that we can define names in that get randomly picked per model. Like say we add a bot with the male model 1 it selects a random name and prehaps personality as sugested above for that model Smile

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RailedRobin · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:08 am Post subject: