How come the bot only supports 9 character nicks? My network allows alot more chars (like 32?) and I would like to support this since I have a long nick myself
You need to change the nick-len setting in the conf file for bot to support longer nicks.
If you want it to support longer handles, you need to edit ~/eggdrop1.6.xx/src/eggdrop.h (setting HAND-LEN) and recompile the bot.
Note that if you want to link it to other bots, their hand-len setting must be the same as yours