FAQ

Here are some frequently asked questions and answers:

General Questions

What can the bots do?
Read it here, you must have missed it when you carefully read this documentation.;-)

Is there an official site?
Yes there is, it's part of the official site! ESForces Bot site.

 

Bugs, Solutions and TroubleShooting

The bots use <insert something like melee here> to much
Open the botpersonality editor(esf\esf_bot\BotEdit.exe) to change the bots behaviour.

Bots can swoop slow when the bot is created after a sbot is kicked, metamod is installed.

Restart the server.

Super Bots crash.
How unpleasant. They are experimental, if you don't want them to crash, don't use them.

Esf_battlearena sometimes crashes
We know, we currently have no good solution, we are working on it.

The bots own me!
You could try to change the botskill or the melee percent to a lower value

I own the bots!!! W00t w00t!
You should set the bot skill to best (botskill 1), melee percent to 80% (bot_melee_percent 80) and
the teleport percent to 100% (bot_teleport_percent 100), then we'll talk again.
Note: you could also change the skill.cfg file, you are able to tailor the skills of bots even more.

I still own the bots!!! W00t, w00ter, W00test!
Try the super bots.

I can't get the bots to work.
Check if you activated them, to activate them run Activatebots.exe located inside your Earth's Special
Forces directory. If that doesn't work try reinstalling Earth's Special Forces or the ESF bot.

When i try to start the activatebots program i get an error about a missing dll .
Not you too?! you need msvbvm60.dll, this will fix all your problems :-)

I have a problem with something else.
Post your problem at the Esf bot forum.

I found a bug! help!! aargh! bugs! get em off get em off!
Please post the bug on Esf bot forum, also how to reproduce it.

I have a suggestion if you could add this and that.
You can post your ideas and suggestions on Esf bot forum, where they will be reviewed and possibly
added in the future.

 

Other Questions

When will the new version of Earth's Special Forces come out?
When its done, the ESF team is not working on Earth's Special Forces as a fulltime job you know, these
people have something called a "life". :-P

When will the new version of ESF bot come out?
When its done, [Me], the creator has to code the bots in his own spare time.
Maybe there is a new version out right now! check either www.esforces.com or at the Esf bot forum for
new versions.

This bot sux! I'll never use it again!
That's your loss.

This bot suxx0r, even i can make a better bot!! W00t R0XX0RZ MY B0XX0RZ!
Then what's stopping you?

 

If you have any other questions please feel free to post them on the Esf bot forum.