Okay, I decided to host a game last night. Things went well as I figured out the basic settings in prefs.cs (thank you Planet ThinkTanks!). However, I need help to make thing run a little smoother.

Here are some basic questions:

(1) How do I kick an annoying player? It's my personal server, so I want to have the right to kick idiots.

(2) Is there a way so that bots only appear if the team is uneven? In other words, let's say there is a 6-man limit. If there is 2on2, no bots will appear. But, once it becomes 3on2, a bot appears for the other team to even things out. I want to avoid having a bot on each side when the game is 2on2.

(3) Can you see what ping the other players are getting?

(4) Is there a hot-key to switch from full-screen to windowed so I can get to the console?

(5) I can probably figure this out myself, but is there an easy way to make a server rotate through my personally favorite maps without having to delete maps or mess up my ability to join other games?

I fear that z's tricks are a result of his own personal programming, but I'm hoping that there at least some console commands to accomplish this. Thanks for any help!

-macr0t0r

Bad news really I'm afraid Mac.

1. Proper admin tools are still in development

2. Not at the moment unfortunately.

3. No, that is their side only, and offhand, I dont think there is anything to ping the players in the game. (which should yield the same result as they get seeing you)

4. Alt + Enter (on PC at least) will switch from full screen to windowed mode.

5. No, at the moment, settings are either GREEN (lush) BLUE (spooky) RED (frantic) or ALL (cycles all of them)

-Z-

Okaaaaay... :( Well, I guess that ends that for now. I tried an IP block, but it just freezes the player until it times out. I don't have a quick way to add an IP block, either.

Next question:

Is your anti-camper mod something that required licensing from BraveTree? In other words, is this something you can share, or is this like the CTF mod?

Thanks for the fast response, z!

-macr0t0r

Last edited: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 3:44:20 PM

Hmm not really something I can easily share regardless of any NDA etc. It is embedded in a whole load of other functions like stat tracking cycles and so on, so is too integrated within the game to simply 'pull out a short script addon' at the moment. Apart from that, it is still kind of in development

-Z-

No problem. It was worth asking. I didn't realize how cool that no-camper script is until I played a few games without it. Really missed it.

For the Mac, window/fullscreen toggle is apparently CMD-Return. Thanks for getting me something close enough that I figured it out!

Well, this thread is done. Oh well.

-macr0t0r