Sorry I don't and I doubt too that I am the first to come up with this. If it could be done it would be very good.

Meh you know me by now, just thinking with my mouth open. But I still wonder if its possible. I meant bots, but for wild animals I was thinking more along the lines of a vehicle. If you had several wild animals/vehicles on a map, that where spawn points until someone spawned in them (like in rise of kobol's fighters) you could make those spawn points open to only people of a certain class (shattered faith says they've figured out class based spawn points). So what if you made your bots only choose a class, say a class called 'bot', and this class was unavailable to others to choose. You could either do that by if possible making that class choice not appear on the selection screen (not sure if you can do that), or by letting it appear on the class selection screen, but make it a limited class only a certain number of players can choose (I think several mods are doing that already). Say there where three bots on each team, that class can be limited to 3 people. Bots could be programmed to choose only that class the instant the server starts, leaving no time for anyone else to choose it.
To tell you the truth I think cooler stuff could be done with bots than wild animals, I just mentioned that. But I think bots would be great for commander asset stuff.
For instance the call-in-able air strike idea on infantry maps, or maybe objective based ones. The way that could work would be that several fighters/bombers could spawn floating on the edge of the map. These are spawn pionts like I described above. The bots spawn into them, and fly to where the commander ordered the strike. Or if it was objective based, say the rebs had to plant a beacon on a power generator, which can only be destroyed by a proton torpedo. They lay the beacon, the commander orders the strike, and the bots are programmed to target the beacon.
Or for my dark trooper suggestion a couple hyperspace pods could come down where teh commander clicked, and where the pods fell dark trooper vehicles could spawn. Then the bots could spawn in them like the fighters.
The whole reasoning behind teh bots having their own class would be that they can't spawn at any of the other flags, they can only spawn at the points created by commander powers. So for a regular old conquest map like you said, they wouldn't spawn at all, unless the commander had one of those assets to use. Though I'm stumped on figuring out how to stop them from being kicked by real players comin in.
It might not work, it might work but be more of a hassle than its worth, or maybe its just something to think about for some far off future release. Don't know. But it is cool to think about.

Futurama: You Can't Prove it Won't Happen

I think what your forgeting is every bullet you shoot is processed server side, this is often why you shoot a guy and he doesn't die. Yes it takes bandwidth to send the packets but the latensy is caused not by the network but by the computer proccesing the infomation. If you want proof of this one you can trust me cause I know my stuff or you can check in the object_server.zip which contains only.con files and .collisionMeshes and in the Objects_client.zip  that contains .bundleMeshes and textures. Also AI is not run by your computer, but on the server, if it didn't and everyones computer ran the AI then Bots would be running in different directions on different peoples screen. Yes less human players would  mean you need less bandwidth (theoretically a high ping) but with 255 players it wont matter the server will more than likely lag. 90% of the time when a game lags its not to do with ping, (except that one time I tried to play on a Isreali server from Australia Ping = 500) but with a lagging server (in which case everyone lags, or a lagging client inwhich you lag.

General Un-Co,
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