A new usage condition for server hosts has been added to the Cod4x Docs
- Bot clients shall not be disguised as real players. All bots must report a ping of 0 or 999, and their names shall be prefixed with [BOT].
Context: Some servers in the past have spoofed bots to give them fake pings etc, making them appear as if they are real players. This is a shady and deceiving practice, the server hosts who abused it know it was.
We are now making this explicit in the usage conditions. One of the main reasons CoD4x was created was because servers on 1.7 used bots to appear more populated than they actually were.
A new rule regarding bot names has also been added.
This is to make it clear to new players which clients are bots and which are real players. We feel like this is a fair compromise. We have no issue with servers using bots, so don’t worry about that.
We hope that servers will quickly adopt this change, at the latest by October 1st.
I will give friendly reminders to servers that have not adopted the change leading up to the deadline. (servers using the default bot names of bot0,bot1,bot2.. will not be delisted)
We also removed some old redundant rules from the usage conditions.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.
