It has been figured out (by the admins at gamedaemons.net):

'set bot_enabled' has to be placed before the maps load. Simple as that.

Thanks very much for the help!

It has to be something with the setup - I've googled and googled and googled and all the info I've found to make it work doesn't. And you can see in the console that the bots are parsed at startup. I'm going to double check with the admins at gamedeamons.net to see what's going on. Thank you for all...

I actually have the rcon password set in the local cfg file, but I did as you asked anyway, along with the minplayers change. Still no bots. I wonder if they're even installed on the server?

Yep, that was it. Duh... I had 1.30 on my computer. Thanks. BTW, what's OSP? So now my pals and I can join up, but I can't add bots. I tried adding bots from the console using RCON like so: \rcon addbot Hunter 4 Blue ...but nothing happens. I changed my server.cfg file a bit, most notably remming th...

Hi, I've got an a hosted Quake 3 server over at http://www.gamedaemons.net/ and I'm totally, completely lost. First off, I've never played Quake 3 online - just on a LAN with some friends. So the only way I know to start a server game is through the UI. This here hosted server (linux, BTW) with web ...