Why don't the default bots have AiConnections?

[Greek2me]

The default bots are not parented to AiConnections. If they were, it would be a lot easier to basically treat them as players. Unfortunately, the lack of a client means that I will have to rewrite most functions for bots.

To see what I mean, look at these class hierarchies:
AiConnection
AiPlayer

Would it cause any problems if I added an AiConnection to every bot that's spawned?

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[elm]

Bots in general are bad. I'd like to see someone write up some nice framework for them (if done right maybe badspot can add it to the default code). Also, i think some guy had problems with aiConnections which caused his server to crash.

[Greek2me]

Yeah, I bumped Xalos's topic and sent Badspot a link as well.

Anyway, I feel like the way bots should work is that every bot hole has a client and then that client is used for any bots that spawn there.


Edit: This is how I'm doing the clients:

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package Slayer_Modules_Bots
{
function fxDtsBrick::onBotSpawn(%this)
{
parent::onBotSpawn(%this);
%bot = %this.hBot;
if(!isObject(%bot.client))
{
if(!isObject(%this.aiClient))
{
%this.aiClient = new AiConnection()
{
bl_id = getBL_IDFromObject(%this);
class = "HoleBotClient";
};
}
%bot.client = %this.aiClient;
%this.aiClient.player = %bot;
%this.aiClient.bot = %bot;
}
}

function fxDtsBrick::onRemove(%this)
{
if(isObject(%this.aiClient))
%this.aiClient.delete();
parent::onRemove(%this);
}
};
activatePackage(Slayer_Modules_Bots);
This seems to cause death messages to display when you kill a bot. Any suggestions?