Will XXX Bot work with YYY mod?/Will there be support for XXX Bot in YYY mod?
This is a popular question. You cannot use such and such a bot (unless it is a client-side bot) with such and such a mod unless that mod has support for the bot written into it or the bot author has added support for the mod themselves. Examples are OSP Tourney DM (which has Gladiator bot support built-in to the OSP files) and the CTF mode in the Eraser bot (CTF support has been coded into the bot’s files) respectively. Quite often there are hybrids of a bot and a mod (or a bot and several mods) created by a third author, not related to the bot or the mod(s). Examples of these are the Holywars Frogbot merged by numb and the WeaponsFactory Eraser by Acrid. When merging bots with other mods it’s not just a simple case of putting the two files together, they have to be properly merged *and then* code has to be written so that the bot nows how to play the rules of the mod. With more complex mods this can mean bots can never be merged in (or written internally) for the mod as it is very har
