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You know what strikes me as a cheap way to run a bunch of bots to populate servers? Send users a wasm binary for running a bot and run several bots on a user's
by kamray23 5y ago
You know what strikes me as a cheap way to run a bunch of bots to populate servers? Send users a wasm binary for running a bot and run several bots on a user's computer in the bg while they're playing themselves. Maybe check for resource usage and such, though. You can populate enough servers to keep a constant rate of growth up to some reasonable plateau because the amount of bots scales neatly with the amount of players, keeping a constant feeling of crowdedness as you spool up more real servers.
Eh, maybe just have the bots be part of the server software. They're not that expensive. But cool idea.
- moritonal 5y agoIn gaming, trusting the client with any responsibility will almost always result in hackers causing grief for you.
- jasonkester 5y agoNah, bots are really cheap compared to simulating the game. You need to run the whole thing on the server all the time anyway, so you might as well keep a few dozen bots alive while you're at it. It's only when hundreds of actual people show up that the machine needs to do any real thinking, and by that point you will turned all your bots off anyway. Source: I built and run https://joust.life/ https://joust.life/