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Offline TigerVX

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Bots in LAN Team Games?
I finally got some of my friends into Freespace 2 and we've been playing around in coop games so far, because in a dogfight or team I'd wipe the floor with them (I rack up 40+ kills on Gauntlet, they get 10 or less). Theres more then a couple amusing coop games, but I was wondering if there was a way to play team games and have all of us on one team, with all the other fighter slots filled up with bots? This seems like it wouldn't be so far fetched to me since in coop all the spare slots are made up of AI's, so is it possible in team? Thanks!

 

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Nope at least one player has to be on the other team in a TvT.  If your that good put all of them on the other team and send your AI home C30. 
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Offline karajorma

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
You could edit the mission in FRED to be a Coop and resave it under another name. :)

I've never actually done it but off the top of my head all that would be required would be removing the Player Ship option from every ship in Zeta wing, giving the wing a much higher repeat count and changing the mission type in mission specs.
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Offline Shade

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
I could see a case for someday allowing playerless teams in TvT, but it shouldn't save stats. Just like how you can play coops alone but won't get points either.
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Offline karajorma

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Right now it would require far more coding than it's worth in order to work though.
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Offline Blue Lion

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Isn't that basically just a coop mission?

 

Offline TigerVX

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Yeah pretty much, its nice to have simplicity though over the normal coop missions where you and a Fenris Cruiser fend off wave after wave of Ravana Destroyers =P

I'm pretty handy with FRED though, so I bet I can do what Karajorma advised, thanks for the help!

 

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
If it crashes when you make it a coop change the name of the enemy wing to something other than Zeta.  Not sure if that bug has been fixed or not but coop missions didn't like Zeta as a wing name. 

One other problem is that the enemy wing won't spawn like a TvT.  You may want to make 4 dummy wings with 1 ship in each so they spawn immediately when killed. 
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Offline karajorma

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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Or just set the wave threshold for Zeta to 2. :)

It's not quite as good since now two ships have to die before 4 more appear but it should be close enough in difficulty to be interesting.
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Re: Bots in LAN Team Games?
Even better make them friendly player ships then just have an event at mission start to set them to hostile. 
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