Bots and immersion in solo mode

[3ne3ne-sys]

I’ve been playing a lot, and everything seems to work just like it did back in 2010/11. Lumbridge is bustling with activity—bots mining and woodcutting; they travel to the mines south of Varrock, and there’s plenty of movement at the city's east bank. They walk over to the city sewers, but as you head toward the town square, things go quiet—there are no bots walking around. To the south, you can barely spot any bots chopping wood, and the market is a total ghost town; it creates a real sense of emptiness. It would be great to have at least a few bots standing around like in the old days—burning logs or taking strolls to the south bank—just to bring back that joy of seeing people in the square and the market (even if it's just for show, since I’ve enabled instant purchases for solo play). That’s the only thing missing to make it 100% perfect. I’m attaching a photo from back then to illustrate that feeling; I usually keep 300 bots running since the server handles it perfectly.

[GregHib]

100% agreed, bots are quite simple and don't cover a lot of the world map atm. @trunksbomb has been expanding the areas out to seers village recently but there's going to need to be a lot more to get it feeling how it was back in the day. There's also been some experiments with trading with bots, them using the G.E, doing quests etc... but they're not ready yet.

So these things are in progress and are the desired end-goal 😃

[trunksbomb]

I've got one PR pending for most of the Western side of the map. Port Sarim to Karamja to Ardougne to Oo'Glog, and another one building up to refine existing areas and add new activities.

With the recent bot fixes and improvements, I've got a lot of ideas queued up. The "activities by area tag" is going to make your world pop with activity when I'm done - I'm tagging so many areas. Stay tuned.