Bot Enabled Server AI Load On CPU

[WildcardX]

I haven't yet done any performance evaluations of the bot code as I've been focused on bug fixes and features for bots in a group. But I've been thinking about the new features I have been adding to the AI and I am wondering how this is performing on a larger scale. I know there are a few bot enabled servers out there like The Hidden Forest (love their YouTube video!!) and I hear Mort has a server with bots running around. I'd like to hear some feedback about how this bot code behaves on a larger scale. If there are any performance issues, I'd like to hear them so they can be addressed.

[Lillu]

Hey WildcardX, thanks again for all your hard work improving the bot system. We are looking forward to update the server code with the new bot AI. Tbh, we already gave some hint to our playerbase that some cool stuff is coming soon.
I'll ask our community to provide feedback and will keep you updated.

[Lillu]

Our cpu (I call it The Beast) is a Xeon X3320 2.5 GHz Quad-core processor, dedicated to THF server and the web based sql tools (our portal is hosted on a separate host in US). with 100+ players online and 1 bot per toon the cpu it hardly ever breaks 30% usage, at 10% average.
It's a IBM x3200 M2 server with 4G ram.

Will let you know how things change once we updated our code.

[WildcardX]

That's encouraging to hear. How popular are the use of bots on your server among your player base? Can I read from those numbers that if you have 100 players online, then there may be as many as 75 bots spawned?

[Lillu]

I would say, 50-75ish. We have a 1 (spawnable) bot per toon limit, and 1 bot per group limit. Players mostly solo or play 2-3 box with one bot (besides the group/raid zones and progression content).

[WildcardX]

Did you impose these limits on the bots because of performance concerns or simply your arbitrary choice?