The following patch may prevent the reporting of practice robots to the
metaserver, allowing the players to better appreciate the load on a
server.

-- 
James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/
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Index: solicit.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/netrek/server/Vanilla/ntserv/solicit.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 solicit.c
--- solicit.c	2 Jan 2006 07:27:52 -0000	1.5
+++ solicit.c	3 Jan 2006 04:43:47 -0000
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
       
       for (j = queues[queue].low_slot; j < queues[queue].high_slot; j++)
       {
-	if (players[j].p_status == PFREE)
+	if (players[j].p_status == PFREE || strstr(players[j].p_login, "robot"))
 	  nfree++;
 	else
 	  nplayers++;