Too many autohosts?

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 01 Dec 2006, 21:52

It doesnt seem to me that people prefer human hosts. I certainly don't, and autohosts hosting popular mods are used constantly.

What exactly you have in mind?? What do they usually need to do and must use "longcommandhere" ? And why is that slower than trying to convince AFK host to do it for you?

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 01 Dec 2006, 22:02

Imo just ask betalord to add "hide empty" and "hide passworded" to lobby game list.

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 01 Dec 2006, 22:03

Licho wrote:Imo just ask betalord to add "hide empty" and "hide passworded" to lobby game list.

+37

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 01 Dec 2006, 23:51

Licho wrote:There is no way to tell human player from a bot.. Even if there was some, bot's can still report as an ordinary TASClient to lobby server (because protocol is open).

O_o They have a bot icon next to them because they're accout has been modified so that they are listed as bots.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 02 Dec 2006, 00:37

you cant have too many autohosts.

knorke · Post by **knorke** » 02 Dec 2006, 01:09

Its usefull when you want to play a friend and both of you are too stupid to forward routerports.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 02 Dec 2006, 01:22

LordMatt wrote:
Licho wrote:There is no way to tell human player from a bot.. Even if there was some, bot's can still report as an ordinary TASClient to lobby server (because protocol is open).
O_o They have a bot icon next to them because they're accout has been modified so that they are listed as bots.

Yeah, if you ask Betalord you can get bot icon and increased traffic. But there is no universal automated way to detect that account is a bot.

Uberleechen · Post by **Uberleechen** » 02 Dec 2006, 06:56

Since I started hosting the nanoblobs autohost, I've been checking the chatlogs, and it seems a number of people have been trying the mod for the first time. This would not happen with peoplehosts (or at least, it'd be a lot of work for someone).

+1 to the "filter-passworded-games-option."

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 04 Dec 2006, 05:45

Can i still have my bot filter? Its not that i can't tell the difference between a bot hosted game or not, i'm just sick of looking at them.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 04 Dec 2006, 18:12

Tough luck man, go puke..

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 04 Dec 2006, 19:40

why would anyone have anything against autohosts?

it's not like its hard to scroll through the server list anyway

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 04 Dec 2006, 19:50

Are u kidding???

Do you know how many calories i burn scrolling through that ungodly list

like maybe 1-3???

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 04 Dec 2006, 21:16

hunterw wrote:it's not like its hard to scroll through the server list anyway

it's harder then not scrolling at all...

why would everyone buy bigger monitors if scrolling was as convenient as not scrolling?

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 05 Dec 2006, 01:15

find me someone who bought a bigger monitor in order to not have to scroll through the ta:spring server list, and i'll find you da leprechaun

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 05 Dec 2006, 07:48

Licho wrote:Tough luck man, go puke..

Hmmm.
Two observations.

1) You're taking this too personal.

2) You are missing my point. I don't want to get rid of autohosts. I just want to filter them from my screen. Is that too much to ask?

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 05 Dec 2006, 10:54

But you don't want to filter bot-hosted games, you want to filter empty games...

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 05 Dec 2006, 11:02

imbaczek wrote:But you don't want to filter bot-hosted games, you want to filter empty games...

Filter them all for all i care. I DO want to filter bot hosted games. Cause i personally do not play them. The whole point is to offer options. not restrictions. oi

LBPB · Post by **LBPB** » 05 Dec 2006, 12:02

Quanto042 wrote: Filter them all for all i care. I DO want to filter bot hosted games. Cause i personally do not play them. The whole point is to offer options. not restrictions. oi

+1

AF · Post by AF » 05 Dec 2006, 12:42

find me someone who bought a bigger monitor in order to not have to scroll through the ta:spring server list, and i'll find you da leprechaun

I replaced my 15" CRT with a 21" so I didn't have to scroll.......

Spring RTS Engine

Too many autohosts?