Trying to play with Friends on BF2042

Yea, the idea was to make a few portal games we can all jump on and have fun in, we would invite more friends and fill in the rest of the spots with bots. Then, as you mentioned, I found out that exp is restricted when using bots. Between some of us having to get the ps4 version of the game, and exp being restricted with bots, the whole idea kind of became pointless... sadly.