Hi,
I was talking to Jinnate the other day and had a crazy idea.
It would be nice if we could let mgnu bots enter the tourneys, to fill the empty spots.
I could ask the programmer of the bot if he could implement that, but first i would like to know what you guys think of it.
In my opinion they should not auto-join the tournaments but only when invited by tourneybot (initiated by a TB operator).
The down side of bots entering tourneys is that some players maybe won't think it's fair and object.
Also the bots would probably win at least half the tournaments. :angry:
Do you have any ideas on this?
MadMatt: is this easy to omplement in TB?
This could be useful when you need just one more player (or two) to have a nice number bracket, I'd been thinking about it myself.
There are both good and downsides to it.
Good:
- complete the bracket
- it'd be interesting to see how many tourneys they win
- we could hold bot tourneys to see which one's the strongest
- another nice feature for the mgnu bots and TourneyBot as well
- bots play fast, less hold ups in tourneys
- we want to include everyone in this, so why leave out bots? we're not bot-prejudiced :)
Bad:
- More work for me
- More work for me
- Neverendless whining by people who get matched-up with a bot
- Stability. THis goes both ways, if TourneyBot's not there/malfuctioning it might break the bots... If the bots are not there/malfunctioning it could break TourneyBot
- the bots are incredibly strong, would they win too many tourneys?
- bots have many many saved games. How to get around that, if they're paired up with someone they have a saved game with?
- Did I mention that'd mean more work for me? ;)
- What happens if a bot wins a prize tourney?
Don't do it -- It's a good idea in theory, but I promise you that when implemented, it will cause way more trouble than you want with people complaining. Byes are much, much better.
Besides, in a tournament, I want to play people. I can play the bots anytime, but a tournament is a fun competition with people. I like the human element.
JLee
Yeah, I vote no. JLee has it right.
I vote no as well.
But it would be fun to enter all the bots into a bots ony tourney, or better yet series of tourneys. That would be interesting to watch.
JJ
No for me too (http://www.fibsboard.com/html/emoticons/puke.gif)
I like JonJon's idea... something like this happened once, where the bots were set to play each other. It drew great interest.
JLee
A big resounding no here as well - sorry
I dont think either, that bots should play in normal tourneys.
Anyway, I'm very interested to see mgnu_bots playing each other in their own tourney :)
OK OK OK.. it was just an idea !! ;)