Bots

**Bots** are non-player entities in games that take the role of countries. Their position, behavior and difficulty defines a large part of gameplay. The number of bots depends on the number of players in a game, and they spawn randomly all across the map. Bots can be easily identified by players with an underline beneath the name of the bot.

## Behavior

### Singleplayer

Bot behavior changes as the difficulty of single-player is increased. When the mode is set the *very easy*, the bots are usually slow to expand and put most of their resources into attacks. As the difficulty is increased, bots put less resources from their balance to attack. The bots expand faster at the beginning of the game, and have greater aggression towards players. Bots tend to attack their weakest neighbor.

From 1.76 and onwards, singleplayer bot names has [Bot] Empires.

### Multiplayer

In multiplayer modes, bot behavior is most like the *very easy* setting. They are usually very weak as they devote the majority of their resources in attacks. Although, some bots can grow to be really big, and can easily conquer weaker players or bots. Sometimes, a bot will randomly give out resources to support another player, and the better the player is performing, they get more money from more bots.

When a player leaves, it creates a new bot, with the players name in square brackets. These player bots act like regular bots, but they attack with a reduced percentage of resources sent in attacking, and they do it faster. These bots are still simple to conquer if you have enough resources, although, when the feature originally debuted, these player bots were way harder.

There is also an unofficial bot. His name says he is not a bot, but he behaves like one. He never communicates, doesn't spend resources, and attacks when the enemy is below his level. So if an enemy is stronger than him, but your whole team attacks despite the power difference, he doesn't attack until the enemy is weaker than him.

### Zombie / Infection Mode

In the Zombie / Infection mode, bots are way harder, as some bots get resources faster than others. They also attack at full strength, but keep in mind, some bots have a lot more resources than you. This is more comparable to the Very Hard bots setting in singleplayer.

Before the 1.77 update, no [Bot] Names were allowed in the Resistance. After the update, the creator included a few bots to fight the Virus to make the game slightly easier,

## History of Bot Names

### 1.84

Sometime around June of 2023, the multiplayer bot names were seemingly changed from [Bot] Names to [Bot] Empires. The reasoning for this was unknown, as the creator didn't mention anything about the matter.

### 1.76

In the 1.76 update, the bot names were once again changed to [Bot] Names, but changing some names, i.e. [Bot] Gabrielle to [Bot] Gabby and [Bot] Daniel to [Bot] Daniil, or removing names, like [Bot] Scott or [Bot] Victoria. This naming list is still being used to this day.

### 1.75

After the 1.75 update, The [Bot] Names were replaced once again with [Bot] Countries, but with all [Bot] Numbers being replaced with historical entities, or [Bot] Empires.

### At 1.74

In the 1.74 update, [Bot] CountryName and [Bot] Number was replaced by [Bot] Names, backlash ensued as country names were way better.

### Before 1.74

By name, bots are divided into 2 types: [Bot] Countries and [Bot] Numbers.

[Bot] Numbers have their own number from 0 to 999, and [Bot] Countries have country names from all 196 UN Member States, and this is the list which was inside the code of the game.

2. Albania
3. Algeria
4. Andorra
5. Angola
6. Antigua and Barbuda
7. Argentina
8. Armenia
9. Australia
10. Austria
11. Azerbaijan
12. The Bahamas
13. Bahrain
14. Bangladesh
15. Barbados
16. Belarus
17. Belgium
18. Belize
19. Benin
20. Bhutan
21. Bolivia
22. Bosnia and Herzegovina
23. Botswana
24. Brazil
25. Brunei
26. Bulgaria
27. Burkina Faso
28. Burundi
29. Côte d'Ivoire
30. Cape Verde
31. Cambodia
32. Cameroon
33. Canada
34. Central African Republic
35. Chad
36. Chile
37. China
38. Colombia
39. Comoros
40. Republic of the Congo
41. Costa Rica
42. Croatia
43. Cuba
44. Cyprus
45. Czechia
46. Denmark
47. Djibouti
48. Dominica
49. Dominican Republic
50. DRC
51. East Timor
52. Ecuador
53. Egypt
54. El Salvador
55. Equatorial Guinea
56. Eritrea
57. Estonia
58. Eswatini
59. Ethiopia
60. Fiji
61. Finland
62. France
63. Gabon
64. The Gambia
65. Georgia
66. Germany
67. Ghana
68. Greece
69. Grenada
70. Guatemala
71. Guinea
72. Guinea-Bissau
73. Guyana
74. Haiti
75. Vatican City
76. Honduras
77. Hungary
78. Iceland
79. India
80. Indonesia
81. Iran
82. Iraq
83. Ireland
84. Israel
85. Italy
86. Jamaica
87. Japan
88. Jordan
89. Kazakhstan
90. Kenya
91. Kiribati
92. Kuwait
93. Kyrgyzstan
94. Laos
95. Latvia
96. Lebanon
97. Lesotho
98. Liberia
99. Libya
100. Liechtenstein
101. Lithuania
102. Luxembourg
103. Madagascar
104. Malawi
105. Malaysia
106. Maldives
107. Mali
108. Malta
109. Marshall Islands
110. Mauritania
111. Mauritius
112. Mexico
113. Micronesia
114. Moldova
115. Monaco
116. Mongolia
117. Montenegro
118. Morocco
119. Mozambique
120. Myanmar
121. Namibia
122. Nauru
123. Nepal
124. Netherlands
125. New Zealand
126. Nicaragua
127. Niger
128. Nigeria
129. North Korea
130. North Macedonia
131. Norway
132. Oman
133. Pakistan
134. Palau
135. Palestine
136. Panama
137. Papua New Guinea
138. Paraguay
139. Peru
140. Philippines
141. Poland
142. Portugal
143. Qatar
144. Romania
145. Russia
146. Rwanda
147. Saint Kitts and Nevis
148. Saint Lucia
149. Saint Vincent
150. Samoa
151. San Marino
152. São Tomé and Príncipe
153. Saudi Arabia
154. Senegal
155. Serbia
156. Seychelles
157. Sierra Leone
158. Singapore
159. Slovakia
160. Slovenia
161. Solomon Islands
162. Somalia
163. South Africa
164. South Korea
165. South Sudan
166. Spain
167. Sri Lanka
168. Sudan
169. Suriname
170. Sweden
171. Switzerland
172. Syria
173. Tajikistan
174. Tanzania
175. Thailand
176. Togo
177. Tonga
178. Trinidad and Tobago
179. Tunisia
180. Turkey
181. Turkmenistan
182. Tuvalu
183. Uganda
184. Ukraine
185. United Arab Emirates
186. United Kingdom
187. United States
188. Uruguay
189. Uzbekistan
190. Vanuatu
191. Venezuela
192. Vietnam
193. Yemen
194. Zambia
195. Zimbabwe
196. Taiwan

## Zombie / Infection Mode Names

Zombie / Infection mode debuted with exclusive names. Originally, there were these bot names:

1. Infection Area
2. Infected Hordes
3. Contamination Zone
4. Restricted Zone
5. Exclusion Zone
6. Deserted Area
7. Prohibited Zone

Eventually in the 1.78 update, all of the names mentioned above were changed to the 1.76 bot names, with the regular human zombies having [Bot] and the zombies having [Zombie].