Nah, 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

Nah, 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/