Bots do not attack other bots or players when bot count is high about fun-bots HOT 13 CLOSED

I've made some improvements on the latest smart_nodes branch. I tested with 15 bots on each side and it seems to have resolved the issue. If you can, try out this branch and let us know if it solves this issue.

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The issue wasn't spaces, the issue was that the client didn't have the same list of names as the server. so I rewrote the client code to be name-independent entirely.

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I think, the Problem is the iteration/loop with an misimplemented behavior.

You would have to implement the whole thing like a kind of collision check, that each bot in its instance makes a near-by check of the position. Did you know what i mean?

I have the same problem with 30-40 bots as zombie opponents. It starts lagging because iteration takes so long and then the bot ends up being out of scope. So the bot can never see if there is an opponent nearby because the checks take too long.

The whole thing is probably never noticed with a small number of bots.

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Right now we need Raycasts to detect if a bot can see a player or bot. But these are only supported by the clients. As a bot has no client a real player has to do the calculation for the bot.
But maybe we can finde a little better algorithm or improve the speed a little.

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I can confirm there is an issue with the BOTs not attacking one another, even with just 12 v 12 BOTs, a lot of the time they are just walking past each other.

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Its a matter of computing power on the client.
With only one client there are with 3 agains 3 bots 9 possible connections to check. As One client only checks 1 connection every 0.1 second this takes a long time with more bots. I will double check if everything works correctly. As soon as there are more real players on the server the number of checkable connetions inceases a lot...

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To your example:
with 32 vs 32 there are 1024 possible connections to check.
With only one player it will take 102,4 seconds for one complete cycle. So it can happen very likely that bots totally miss each other.

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Major has added an fix. On my side, it was an little ugly implementation of Bots since Joe had startet the development.

The commit ed15ce9 will fix the issue.

Have you changed your BotNames? If they contain spaces, there could be problems. Previously, the bots were determined based on the player name, which led to problems. The behavior has now been changed a bit.

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Good point and also why don't we make it so the bots are treated as players, or at least seen as players to the bot, thus they will attack them as well and not differentiate between players and other bots.

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I will check these today, when i bring up my windows server. I had crashed/misconfigured it yesterday.

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To add to this it seems like it is worse when they are near an objective in modes like domination or rush. Particularly if they are arriving at the objective to take it they tend to ignore anyone. This was with a low bot count.

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They don't have spaces in at all. You can look them up in the Shared/Constant folder. Glad this works again for you. :-)

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Right now no option to improve this...

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