PsyK wrote:
pasik wrote:
There's one "unofficial" dedicated server using the name "dedicated" located in United Kingdom, been online for a past few days, hosting map2 at least from what I've seen.
I would like to ask the host to check the media files on the server, as it seems map2 is from an older build than 0.73 -- it is shown on clients playing on the server as another crate getting destroyed than the one you try to smash, and then OOS can happen easily as the client won't go through a box locally but it does on the server. The object UID's are apparently not in sync between the server resources and client resources.
Any chance, Redxeno225, that it's your server? Would be great to get it in sync, it's great that we have a real community server too!
I would like to ask the host to check the media files on the server, as it seems map2 is from an older build than 0.73 -- it is shown on clients playing on the server as another crate getting destroyed than the one you try to smash, and then OOS can happen easily as the client won't go through a box locally but it does on the server. The object UID's are apparently not in sync between the server resources and client resources.
Any chance, Redxeno225, that it's your server? Would be great to get it in sync, it's great that we have a real community server too!
Hi there, that is my server, apologies on it being outdated ive not been around much this week and trying to keep track of updates is something im quite dumb with!
Ive updated the server today and it should be running the latest version again... i hope.
Some things i've been trying to look for ( although i havent spent much time looking ) is for customisation on the server?
Thinks like max_players i can set, but what about server name?
Any chance you could write up a quick manual?
No worries, the server isn't the most straightforward thing there is, so seeing one launched up spontaneously was an absolute delight!
I sincerely thank you for that.Here are some tips for dealing with the beast:
Generally, you can see command specific help by commanding "help command_name_here", so the manual is included in the console, e.g.
Code:
>help start_server
start_server server_port server_name client_max_start_rank register_in_serverlist
* server_port 0 - 65535
* server_name
* client_max_start_rank 0.0 - 1.0
* register_in_serverlist 0 / 1, false / true
start_server server_port server_name client_max_start_rank register_in_serverlist
* server_port 0 - 65535
* server_name
* client_max_start_rank 0.0 - 1.0
* register_in_serverlist 0 / 1, false / true
With this in mind, you could then say e.g. "start_server 3000 MyServer 0.5 1" and this would start a server named MyServer on port 3000 with rank 5 being the max rank clients can choose and the server getting registered to be shown in the server browser. Omitting parameters from end will make them resort to some default values.
After a while, you'll grow tired of typing that over and over again if you need to restart the server often (0.73 was quite leaky so at least that needed about daily restarts in my experience). You can use a file with name commands.xml in the server folder to define aliases or shortcuts for commands you use often. Take a glimpse at http://modulaatio.com/runningwithrifles/commands.xml, you can take that as a template for your own settings. With that in place, you can then just call "1" in the console to start the game with the parameters defined for it. I've tried to pick something reasonable for each map with the 1,2,3,4 commands regarding AI accuracy and bot count, but it's anyone's guess really what are the best options.
Another one:
Code:
>help start_game
start_game server_faction initial_areas ai_accuracy max_soldiers vehicles
* server_faction 0 / 1, 0 = greens
* initial_areas 0 - 7, server faction's areas, 0 means even division
* ai_accuracy 0.0 - 1.0
* max_soldiers 0 - any, 0 means no AI
* vehicles 0 / 1, false / true
start_game server_faction initial_areas ai_accuracy max_soldiers vehicles
* server_faction 0 / 1, 0 = greens
* initial_areas 0 - 7, server faction's areas, 0 means even division
* ai_accuracy 0.0 - 1.0
* max_soldiers 0 - any, 0 means no AI
* vehicles 0 / 1, false / true
Server faction doesn't really affect anything else than the perspective for the next parameter (ok, the server player will be in the given faction, but there shouldn't be a server player anyway, I'm going to fix that soonish). Initial areas can be more or less than 7 on other maps, the help adjusts the value accordingly. AI accuracy has a peculiar scale compared to what you see in-game (server: 0.0 -> 1.0, in-game menu: -3,-2,-1,0,+1 etc), I'll just say now 0.87 is the same as -2, 0.91 is -1, 0.94 is 0, 0.96 is +1, and so on. Looks like the default I'm using on the servers is a tiny bit harder than 0 in single player.
Max soldiers is not capped, I think, so if you want to go crazy, you can start 10000 bot game (I'm going to wish I didn't say that).
And so on, just look into the command specific helps. If you have anything to ask, just shoot.