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Battousai Shadow - Fri Aug 22, 2003 1:39 pm
Post subject: Couple questions about getting a zone hosted

Ok, lets pretent that I have everything for my zone ready to be hosted and someon said they'd host me on thier server,

1. Would I just give them all my modified server files in the server.zip I d/led and my level.lvz and all they'd have to do is keep the subgame2 and subbill.xex running 24/7 and then my zone would basically be hosted?

2. When I need to update my zone, lie news and a new level, do I just need to send them the updated file and they'd just stop subbilll and subgame and then rerun them and my zone would be updated, or would they put the updated files in the update folder where the newest version of continuum is, or would they do something different?

Thanks in advance for answering these

SuSE - Fri Aug 22, 2003 2:34 pm
Post subject: Re: Couple questions about getting a zone hosted

Battousai Shadow wrote:

ya, you can probably just give them all the files and they should be able to sort out what they need (or ask them specifically what files to send beforehand)

Battousai Shadow wrote:

2. When I need to update my zone, lie news and a new level, do I just need to send them the updated file and they'd just stop subbilll and subgame and then rerun them and my zone would be updated, or would they put the updated files in the update folder where the newest version of continuum is, or would they do something different?

most likely you just need to make sure you are setup as sysop of the zone
with sysop powers you can update files without having direct access to the server

Battousai Shadow wrote:

Thanks in advance for answering these

yo!

Battousai Shadow - Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:33 pm
Post subject: Re: Couple questions about getting a zone hosted

Akai wrote:

[..]
most likely you just need to make sure you are setup as sysop of the zone
with sysop powers you can update files without having direct access to the server

Ok, so how exaclty would I go about updating the file?

btw THX!!! for answering these, your a great help

Smong - Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:44 pm
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I think it's "*putfile news.txt", you can change news.txt to the map/cfg/lvz name too. Changing the map of an arena will kick everyone in it once it has uploaded.
Make sure you are in spec and have sysop powers before trying to upload.

Cyan~Fire - Fri Aug 22, 2003 5:04 pm
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And just for your convenience:
While you're running your server at home (which you probably will before you get a host), just put the files in the server directory, and subgame2 will automatically update the settings.
Except: updating the public .lvl file. You need to *recycle for that. (Maybe there's other files?)

Battousai Shadow - Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:13 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

Recycle?(sorry I'm really new to this)

Cyan~Fire - Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:02 pm
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When you're logged in as sysop, you can type *recycle. It has the same effect of closing subgame2 and reopening it.

Battousai Shadow - Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:48 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

When you're logged in as sysop, you can type *recycle. It has the same effect of closing subgame2 and reopening it.

Ahh that brings up a new question, how do I log on as a sysop/set my username as a sysop?

Dr Brain - Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:24 pm
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In server.ini you set the sysop password. Type *sysoppass in game, or add *sysoppass to the end of your continuum user password.

ShortyMatt - Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:32 pm
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hee hee i asked that question (sysops login) like in my 1st day here...(yes this is sort of spam

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