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Originally posted by thafuriousone:
Set up Rcon with 100 exec and this will allow all users with 100 power to use the exec command and tell rcon to run which ever map config you wish .

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Originally posted by darius1962:
Kevin,

I agree - it is certainly nice to be rid of all the gogogogo-ers. Some are apparently still around, thinking that spamming will speed things up.

Another observation we have made (might be true only for us), is that the server application now requires significantly less resources. Less RAM, less CPU power. And most importantly, the amount of RAM allocated by the process does not increase with time.

However, we miss the "shuffle teams" button. Now, even with voting, we notice that many players leave during the game, since the teams are unbalanced. That rarely happened before.

Perhaps we're missing something - and there is a way to open a console on the server?

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Also im so against anyone running a server on a personal computer and think its funny that most everyone still does now we have a true server launcher. Yes before with the high resource launcher we were forced to host personal server on our PCs cause no hosting company would touch the game but now? all hosting companies will be happy to host this game for you just like they have and do for all the popular games you see out there.

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Originally posted by darius1962:
We're getting more bad experiences with the new server: VGR-nemesis, who is a known cheater, comes along and starts throwing insults around. Before, we would have kicked him, now all we could do was to stop the server.

I am really displeased with the new server. One improvement - the ability to set number of players - combined with the removal of practically all good features.

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oh wait you don't run pb? too bad i guess....

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We cant open the console on the server on its machine yet, but you can put this line in your appdata>local>punkbuster>pbsv.cfg file:

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Originally posted by Pacient.cz:

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Originally posted by thafuriousone:
Set up Rcon with 100 exec and this will allow all users with 100 power to use the exec command and tell rcon to run which ever map config you wish .

Mate can you please update your original post with a few more details about how to set up properly those 100 power ?
Thanks in advance

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Originally posted by darius1962:

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We cant open the console on the server on its machine yet, but you can put this line in your appdata>local>punkbuster>pbsv.cfg file:

Kev, thanx for the suggestion. We'll give that a try. It should help us get rid of the unbalanced teams. (Though unbalanced games may sometimes work: Yesterday we ended up playing 8v2 and one of the two killed 4-5 guys for every death and they won the game. Good and intense fight)

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Originally posted by darius1962:
Diderik, intresting to hear about the new German law. I know that you're regulations are strict: A few months ago we wanted to buy some games in a large store in Berlin, but the sales guy discouraged us. Kept saying "This is the German version". He didn't know what the difference was, except that we would be better off buying the international version in some other country.

Do you know - is FC2 also cut in Germany?

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Originally posted by thafuriousone:

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Originally posted by darius1962:

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We cant open the console on the server on its machine yet, but you can put this line in your appdata>local>punkbuster>pbsv.cfg file:

Kev, thanx for the suggestion. We'll give that a try. It should help us get rid of the unbalanced teams. (Though unbalanced games may sometimes work: Yesterday we ended up playing 8v2 and one of the two killed 4-5 guys for every death and they won the game. Good and intense fight)

From my testings the pb task wasnt shuffling the teams any more with net_shuffleteams, But you can use rcon to do this before each round.

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Originally posted by Attila-:
Hi all

I have some issues to use the "setsetting waitready 100" command

I have tried in dedicated_server.cfg, in pbwebtool, in game after admin login with admin setsetting waitready 100, it tel me set setting succeeded
and it never work (I have skipmape each time i changed setting for be sure than setting take effect)

Server continue to use the min player setting instead of the waitready one

Is someone have an idea ?

Thanks

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Originally posted by Doderik1966:
On the 6th of June I organized a corporate lan-party for 30 people and the new 1.03 dedicated server gave me quite some work to adjust the server configs, especially with the narrow timeframe of just three days..
For these lan-parties I always make sure I have a few configs prepared (and tested), because I don't want to much hassle at the party itself, I am there to have fun as well !
In this great thread is already al lot of good info, but perhaps I can add something extra from my experience.
Besides Lan-parties I also regulary host an online dedicated server with custom maps named Violent Playground. The server configs for this server I use as an example below.

The game is installed in C:\Far Cry 2 (I prefer a small path name for my server configs).

Copied the shortcut of the dedicated server (from the Start menu) to C:\Far Cry 2.
Also copied the dedicated_server.cfg (from My Games\Far Cry 2\Server\) to C:\Far Cry 2.

Renamed dedicated_server.cfg to VP_DM01.cfg and edited the file to a nice DM config (see top of thread for howto).

Also renamed the dedicated server shortcut to "VP_DM01". Went to the properties of this shortcut and adjusted the target to:
"C:\Far Cry 2\bin\FC2ServerLauncher.exe" -dedicated "C:\Far Cry 2\VP_DM01.cfg" and save with OK.

Doubleclick the shortcut VP_DM01 and your server will run (if you setup the VP_DM01.cfg correctly).

After this I cloned and adjusted both the ".cfg" file and the shortcut for some more configs.
VP_DM01.cfg => VP_DM01_HC.cfg : added hardcore mode to config and added [HC] to the servername.
Renamed shortcut VP_DM01 => VP_DM01_HC and changed the target in the properties to:
"C:\Far Cry 2\bin\FC2ServerLauncher.exe" -dedicated "C:\Far Cry 2\VP_DM01_HC.cfg"

And again for a CTD config, cloned the ".cfg" file and the shortcut as already explained above.
Adjusted the cfg to CTD with some nice maps. Doubleclick shortcut to run your CTD server.

After setting up some initial configs with their shortcuts, I wil now only change the mapcycle every once in a while in the "cfg" file.
For the rest I only doubleclick the appropriate shortcut. Works fine for me, perhaps also for other hosters.

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It goes in your pbsv.cfg file; mine works and Ill get a video to prove it.

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Originally posted by darius1962:

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It goes in your pbsv.cfg file; mine works and Ill get a video to prove it.

Don't need to see the video - we tried it this morning and it works perfectly. We set shuffling at 20s intervals and we have now played several very balanced games. We took the opportunity to add a few standard messages as well.