The only downside of using a .pk3 is that clients will get a message saying it's required - not mandatory to download, but still, the message shows up if auto-download is disabled.

It's not a real problem, but it's worth mentioning.

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But the question still remains - why doesn't the script load from the config?

Option #2 - create a regular folder inside the excessiveplus folder with any name, but with the extension .pk3dir at the - zzzz-names.pk3dir and create the scripts folder there in the same way, inside which bots.txt will be located. Advantage - it is read without archiving into a .pk3 file. Disadvantage - the priority between the zzzz-names.pk3dir folder and the zzzz-names.pk3 file will be towards the .pk3 file. Therefore, as soon as you go to a server with custom bots and download such a file, your bots will be read before this file and you will not understand why your bots do not work.

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All my maps are in /baseq3

Bot files are in /excessiveplus
one for Carnage and one for DM17

Did you change the names of the bots in the .pk3 file or do you have a .pk3dir folder or did you run a separate bots.txt file?

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У него сервер оригинальной версии 2006 года, поэтому у него ещё всё работает как описано в "bots.txt". На любых других альтернативных версиях уже надо плясать с бубном как ты им пытался объяснить выше ))

PS
И спасибо что подсказал о проблеме с /locations и /playes! )

Do you mean there is an old engine file like quake3e.x64 from 2006, or an old version of the Excessive Plus modification itself, before flags and the like appeared?