How cool would it be if bots could Command?

I heard that the NS DEV TEAM needs to release real impulse list for fakeclients. (READ THIS)

umm? aren't bots a third party thing

RCBots can command. Sorta. They drop buildings all over the place and it costs them no resources.

NS dev team has nothing to do with bots. This really doesn't belong in this forum, you should talk with the bot developers about this if you want bots to be able to command (although I imagine that the reason they haven't implimented it already is that it is hard as hell to make an AI behave properly in the chair)

This used to be a feature in the older RCBots but was discontinued I believe. They built for free (used no res) but couldn't control precisely where they dropped structures (I remember seeing an armory in bast's readyroom once).

Regardless, as already suggested, go to RCBots Forums to suggest this.

Please read this Thread: Click Here

Cheeseh, the maker of RCBot had made the bots command by hacking NS 2.01.
"The old way they did it was hacked in and left stuff in RAM and could crash the server. Thats why it was removed."-LordSkitch

If Cheeseh has the official impulse command list he won't have to hack NS and making NS unstable.

P.S. I wouldn't of posted this thread if it doesn't belong on this forum.

There is no impulse list for commanding, that's why you can't bind "Drop Armoury" to a key, or something like that. Flay or another dev would have to assign every action an impulse call, and I doubt they would do that, having the final release and ns:s and ns2 on their minds.

Just a small sidenote: Would you actually listen to a bot commanding you

Slightly off topic, but relating to bots, view Duel of the Bots.

It's not the command impulse list I need, I'd prefer some kind of command chair API through the code, some functions that allow me to build a given structure at a given co-ordinate, which does all the stuff like changing resources and making the nice build sound etc.

that requires the developers to make some kind of exported functions, say in an exported functions table, that my bot would be able to pick up so they can use it. I don't know any mods that have this kind of thing, but it would also be advantageous to other plugins, as they can access NS realted stuff that can't be assecible by other means except "hax"'ing through the memory that is likely to change every mod update.

Wow Cheeseh thx for clearing things up

@Zunni what do you say now? what's my odds of getting the Dev Team to work on this?

@Depot when you do it be sure to record it because it will so much fun to see. However I think the New Whichbot(0.94g) will now win with the fade.

The issue that really needs fixing is the inability to change Marine and Alien resources. If they were stored in a specific entity, such as the info_gameplay entity, they could be altered dynamically by any plugin, which would more or less resolve this issue.

Currently, only individual Alien resources can be altered. You can't alter any of the overflow Alien resources. You can't alter Marine resources at all.

I say we eject this bot he sucks get the next 1 in their...

I think this would be really worthwhile. Not only would it allow current bots, like RCBot, to command, but it could provide huge advantages in other areas. Think if everything a player could do, a bot could do as well. And not just bots, plugins would be much easier to make.

This could also carry over to NS:S and NS2. This function structure could really help in both the development and post-release community modding.