16 Player Warcraft????

I was looking through the War3.mpq to find some cdkeys for my bot, and I came across this file. It's located at: \scripts\blizzard.j
I scrolled through it and I found that the MAX player slots for wc3 was 16.

I copied the text:

Quote :

// Game constants
constant integer bj_MAX_INVENTORY = 6
constant integer bj_MAX_PLAYERS = 12
constant integer bj_PLAYER_NEUTRAL_VICTIM = 13
constant integer bj_MAX_PLAYER_SLOTS = 16
constant integer bj_MAX_SKELETONS = 25

If I change the MAX_PLAYERS to 16, will I be able to make games with 16 players?

thatd be cool

No, the last 3 slots are for creeps, aggressive, neutral and friendly

You can have people in those slots but starting with them will crash everyones game
If you have more then 12 people in the lobby the game will crash immediately once the 13th person joins

BUT pat you've explained the theory of MERGING TWO BOTS.

You could have like 20 people in one game :d

He was talking about doing it without bots

Even with 2 bots theres still a max of 12
1 bot would have 12 in one game, the other would have 12 in the other

All actions and chat would be relayed and synced between them using the bot to talk for people that arent playing on the same bot and computers to simulate the actions of the people that arent playing on the same bot
Giving the illusion that all 20-24 people are playing in the same game

Its 20-24 because depending on the game you will need more computers, if its something like a maze you could get 24 people in, since theres only 2 teams, but every team would require another computer, you can count creeps as 3 computers but i dont think you can change their alliances so depending on the teams you probably will only be able to use the aggressive creeps as a computer
So 2 enemy teams (with people on both sides) would need 1 computer to take 1 slot in each game (making the max 11v11), 3 teams would need 2 computers (6v6v6 with 2 unused slots, or 7v7v6 if you dont care about them being even) and so on