[Werewolf_UK]

The bots on my server have stopped spawning automatically and I can't find out why. I've updated Sourcemod, Metamod and Steamtools to the latest versions. There are no errors in the error log relating to any plugins that might interfere with bots (the only error it has is regarding the parsing of my admin_overrides.cfg)

Speaking of plugins that might interfere with bots, I have disabled my SourceTV and plugins related to that, a plugin that makes bots use the mvm robot skins, and checked that my afk_manager isn't kicking them.

This is what I currently have in my server.cfg:

//Spawn Bots
sv_cheats "1"
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot1
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot2
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot3
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot4
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot5
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot6
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot7
bot -team Blue -class scout -name Bot8
sv_cheats "0"

What's particularly puzzling is that if I run my server.cfg after the server has booted up, it will spawn the bots. The problem now is getting them to spawn automatically after the server has restarted which it used to do, but now won't.

Just for the record, these are meant to be the static bots spawned with the "bot" command, NOT the moving/attacking bots spawned with the "tf_bot_add" command.

Anyone got any ideas / insight into what might be happening?

[Snaggle]

To anyone else who may have this problem, the issue was caused by the recent hibernate cvars introduced for TF2. The server goes straight into hibernation due to no human players and kicks the bots, but doesn't add them again afterwards when a player joins.

Solution is to change tf_allow_server_hibernation to 0

[Benoist3012]

Maybe when the server enters hibernation tf_bot_quota is set back to 0, if you want I can write a quick plugin to add them back once a player joins.