What botskill is best for public servers?

[torhu]

Seems most servers with bots on them use a botskill (cvar g_spSkill) of 2. This is a plea to the admins: Please increase the skill of the bots!

This would make it less boring playing bots while waiting for other players to join. At g_spskill 2 they are practically sitting ducks, and 3 is not much better. 4 makes them fun to play against. I haven't tried 5 yet.

The problem is that skill level 4 might be enough to scare new players away, so maybe level 3 is the best way to go. With lowered bot_thinktime and possibly bot_challenge on, or something? Not sure if, or how those work in wq3.

[ReD NeCKersoN]

I agree. I think 3 would be a good choice.

[dolny]

I miss WQ3 :( Sharp's rifle and bank robbery... :cry: :cry: :cry:
Pity that people only play stupid games like Counter Strike. If a mod doesn't have the modern weaponry almost nobody plays it.

I recommend you http://www.bgmod.com for half life. I've been playing it for 3 days - cool atmosphere :)

[torhu]

Yes, Battle Grounds is cool. The gameplay becomes really different when it takes so long to reload. It's cool because it's different, I guess.

[sig11]

I've changed my server which has bots to g_spSkill=3. I never realized I could make them smarter (also, if I play Singleplayer, it is set to 3 already, ah well).

[torhu]

sig11, now there's one bot with skill 1 on your server and two with skill 2. Maybe you need to restart the server an extra time to make it work? I tried starting a server on my own, and got seemingly random skill levels the first time I started the server, but it worked ok the second time.

But thanks anyway, hopefully it'll be less boring playing only the bots from now on