Okay.

This is something that could probably use a bit of testing:  The Glowshell model and how it functions.  I've seen a few things that would indicate it might be a fixable situation other than just on epoly.  It looks almost as if it's the glowshell on the player model that causes the problems, not so much on the powerup / rune models.  BUT - here's the funny part:  The glowshell generated by several of the adminmod plugins don't have the same laggy effect.  It seems almost like there's a hangup within how Valve has the glowshell vs. how everyone else does the glowshell 3rd party. 

I don't know if that makes any sense, man...

I really don't have any problem sharing stripper files either.  If anyone wants mine they can just ask.
I'll edit out the parts where I banged on the keys aimlessly just to see what happens.

DMQ3 is still in Beta, and mfrx made a few changes other than the armor shards.  If you go to the geeky site and hunt around you can see some of the other things that ended up in the request bin. 

Well, no; because admins add them into the maps with stripper files.  We make those specific to our servers and it adds to their uniqueness.  This way people can add more or less (or none) of them as to their individual liking.

Just a thought, Fireball - You may be able to rename the old one "HPB_bot_mm.dll" and get it to work.   I seem to remember certain versions of them that worked with metamod just by renaming them.   It might be worth a try if you want to keep the old jumpy bots without having to upgrade to the face melting hpb bots that use the LG.  I had to pester Dive to find the windows version of mine; they're the no-lg bots from the old Free-Fall.

You may very well have the last surviving copies of the old MDB jumpybots.

That's odd.  Can you run the bots without the  +localinfo mm_gamedll "dlls/HPB_bot.dll" argument?  I've never had to use it so not really sure why it would make a difference.  I don't use that in the command line but have HPB bots and the shards work fine...

I can confirm that they're now working on my server.  Yaaaay.   I think what may have happened was I have metamod p's .dll file in 2 places, and replaced the wrong metamod file.  And also confirmed they work w/ stripper2 running, although I haven't tried putting them in a different map yet with a .str file. 
Cel2 now plays exactly as I thought it would.

I'm glad that code went to good use, because I doubt this Quake mod is going to get released anytime soon.  There's just way too much to do.  Out of curiosity, how easy was it to squeak it into HL?  I haven't really looked at the engine code in ages.

Edit:  Added a few to dcdm5 via Stripper 2.  It works.  Cheers m8 and thanks

Yeah, I'm running all of the above.  It won't return any dialogue in console either.  The menu pops up, it's interactive, but doesn't accept entries, or does but doesn't do anything with the entries.  Weird.

Idk why the shards are not working on my side then... I can't think of anything

I don't see them   What gamemode?