Seems that the guys from The Starport have cracked it.I found it accidentally while looking for the HUD mods.I don't understand one bit of it, that's why anyone out there that has programming skills, maybe Cannon if he's somehow not busy, please take a look at this and tell us if it works.It would help those CapPeople.
When I fly a cap with that many bots, I usually either have full bots or have just repaired myself from 20-ish % hull, which leaves me with considerably less than 999 bots. If the solution was even the slightest bit lag-inducing I'd say it wasn't worth it, but it appears that the number was just arbitrarily chosen and can be modified like any other constant. I don't see what could go wrong other than perhaps the numbers extending over the HUD at small resolutions, but testing never hurts. Lack of testing is why Vista updates were more dangerous than viruses, after all...