The reason why I said majority is because you said, "I (and many others) come to panda to play against people", which I agree with.
I also agree that there's always that one asshole, who switches the direction of the rockets, or steals/upspikes rockets going 200+. Nevertheless, that still occurs when playing against players.
Many people get the rocket to a certain point and then cant control it anymore / someone moved in an unfortunate way and whoever had the rocket beforehand doesn't even have fault, etc... And there's often several people who end up in that unfortunate position before that one guy dies.
I would suggest adding the option to vote for yourself to play last.
While I like the general concept, that would probably make for pretty long roundtimes as, from experience, everyone wants to be last. But it certainly is an interesting option.
I have two concerns about having the bot be disabled, when another player joins:
Okay, to slap a name on it, I used to play a whole lot on AKOD (R.I.P
). There when you joined as a single player the bot would be automatically enabled and it would automatically be disabled once another player joined.
If the bot was present because players voted for it it would stay.
If a player wants an opportunity to practice with a bot, they'll have to play early mornings or late nights.
I can see that happening, and I know the feeling. However with a well-visited server such as panda it would be hard to actually
practice anyway. (And playing against real players usually makes for better practice). That single player would be best off playing on a server of their own if they wanted that kind of practice. (That was my solution to the aforementioned problem anyway)
Some players, including myself, enjoy playing against a bot with friends.
I can see how that is fun. All I was proposing was a bias against the bot in votes. That way there actually needs to be a strong (relative...) majority that actually wants the bot and if the bot is to be disabled there needs to be a strong majority that is enjoying playing against the bot to be able to keep it. If your group can form a majority that is ok, if there are 3 people playing a game and you join with a group of four and turn on the bot, most would consider that rude. (Again, just my experience. You muricans are weird about how you play db anyway
)
One way I've seen this issue solved by other communities was just to make a 24/7 bot server with the same physics as the main server.