How Do Bots Affect Bandwidth If At All?

[DAX]

Hey guys,

Just joined up and I'm early in the process of planning and building a server. Great info on how player slots affect bandwidth and all that. But I'm wondering how bots affect the available bandwidth, if at all?

I'll be running a zombie horde style server (not ZH, but a mod very similar called SPAZM) and I hope to have a 25 slot server with 17 bots. So a maximum of 8 human players joined at any one time.

Thanks for your help.

[Drocona]

Bots don't use any bandwidth since they run on the same computer as the server (so all traffic is local).
They DO however pump up the average bandwidth of all clients since there are more "players" and events that need to be reported.
If your server is 33 tick, with 25 slots full, you'll use 8KB/s (64kbps) on average for each real player.

[DAX]

Excellent, thanks for the info man. Now would 66 tick effectively double the real player bandwidth, or is there a different calculation to figure that?

[Drocona]

Should be safe if you use double yes It's a little different, there isn't really a formula to use, maybe there is but it's a hard one for sure then! But on average I take 12-16KB/s per slot for 66 tick.

[Spartanfrog]

I think it uses a tad bit more than double the bandwidth

[DAX]

Right on, tks guys.