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« on: 24-07-2010, 19:07:24 »
Bah! screw the number of players. If multi player game play is near perfect the player base will remain constant and even grow regardless of how much time has passed. Nostalgia is a very strong attractant. It's the players that entertain each other and the game is only the arena. The only thing going to draw them away is a bigger better arena with more stuff. What's gone or “dying” is BF2 mod development....which means it's pretty much over. Boredom and melancholy are just a few steps away. BF2 is losing it's hair and the talented mod devs are fading away introducing their kids to dreaded babysitter consoles...like the traitorous scum they are. May your kids die of blood clots in the thumbs!
What ever you do with the bots don't bother focusing on things you can't fix. Instead focus on the things that will hide the ai's imperfections and that takes an frigging artist. Getting too tied up in technical details and troubleshooting may go completely unnoticed for the player that has no interest in reading the changlog or visiting a forum in order to appreciate your work. Mind you if the game crashes no one is playing anything. You could probably start by simply deleting the offending piece of equipment or detail and move on from there. My favorite tried and true troubleshooting technique is method of elimination. You can always put it back later once you trip over the reason but focusing on it for days and weeks could keep you from developing more noticeable and appreciated details...but don't ask us because we aren't artists and probably don't even appreciate art when we do trip over it.
Speaking of art something that blows me away to this day was how the hell did the NAW guys get that shoulder launched Javelin missile to lock on, fire straight up in the air and attack the target....from the top?! Too bad their last release caused massive crashing on half the machines it encountered and with little or no interest in troubleshooting the mod is now dead...troubleshooting forums are dead...it was released in April with 4 enormous map packs. The NAW team's solution was really quite conventional and really quite useless. Fill out this form and we'll get back to you. I love mods more than anything but fill out a form? FU.