Server Help

Cruis.In · Guest Offline

ok in my bid to run my own zone ive got 3 hitches.

one a program to edit server.cfg file to edit settings for the ships...its not easy testing and getting what you want just right, when you have to go into the file manually..... any programs that can do this? and where.

second....what and where can I get a list of commands that I as a sysop can use in my zone? is there a bot or a program that I can download to make things simple etc??

3third= I really need a map maker to make me the small map I have in mind.

anyone willing to help can email me 1500@caribsurf.com
or reply here....
if just to help out, or to hop on the band wagon and help finish off the creation of the best star trek zone subspace will ever see.

currently ive got the shipset done.
sounds done.
test server...

just need to finish my settings, i have what i want in mind, but testing is neccessary, for max fun.
also the map and the zone idea is the killer, think Dominion Wars.
involving deep space nine.

thanks

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: Help Please?

Cruis.In · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject: hehe

thanks for the help anyway.

so everyone manually edits settings then tests them? thats ....terrible!

<----gets to work

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:37 am Post subject:

Yes, because that's what you gotta do... heh...

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

im having trouble being recognised as the sysop.
i put my name in the sysop.txt

logged in when connected and it says logged in as sysop on billing server. in green.

then no sysop commands work not to mention any other * commands.

i put my name in moderator.txt and the moderator commands work of course. so that works as designed.

but why is it not working when i log in as sysop, what am i doing wrong, i even set the validation for sysop in server.ini to 1 and nothing.

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:59 am Post subject:

*brain dead right now* -- try entering your sop (sysop) password when you enter (im assuming it should have already validated you being it said sysop logged in but what the heck...)

*<password>

it wont say anything... then try *arena <msg>

maybe someone else can answer more prcecisely

lol... yeah i better get off of this thing before i make a fool of myself :X ... XD

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:02 am Post subject:

nope. no go. heh

says logged into data server. correction.

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:06 am Post subject:

ok i got it. instead of using ?login pw
i used *login pw.

the help file said use ?login

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:07 am Post subject:

?login <pw> i think is the biller login...

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:17 am Post subject:

what does one do if you log into the billing sevrer anyhow? modify files?

anyway its actually *pw and gives u access

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:25 am Post subject:

i dont suppose theres anywhere that tells me what some of the .cfg settings do. some numbers arent clear in what range you can input. for example i would think max speed = 100

but thats not the numbers i see there....

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:34 am Post subject:

Well, if you grab FACT's and then load the description file, it'll tell you the min/max, plus a description of the value you're editing...

or in game - esc+c will bring up the max/min/description for each value..

press f10 to save; sometimes the server will recycle though so becareful

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

press f10 to save; sometimes the server will recycle though so becareful

what does that mean?
oh btw i changed some settings blindly...and now the damn thing doesnt load when i click subgame hhahaha just error.....error report.

i changed the ship names warbird etc.. did that do it? or some setting i made to a ship

if i grab FACTS? where to grab it from.

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:46 am Post subject:

Oh sorry I thought I had posted that earlier (it was in a different post):

User-Coder App's - "Rules" post will have a link; or check it out subspacedownloads.com Files-> Editors...

Subgame will close immediately (when run) if the filename for the map specified doesnt' exist...

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:54 am Post subject:

hey i dont understand what you said in your last post nor still your second last please, can you elaborate?

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:01 am Post subject:

hmm ok i see factsxxx.zip

man this settings this is so cumbersome to get done, it looks like all my efforts are wasted before i get off the ground, how can i ever get the settings i want doing it this way.....

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:05 am Post subject:

You can't... You must start from scratch unless somebody would let you have theirs... but that's extremely unlikely... So...

use FACTS, click the 'server' tab, 'config ed',
JUST DO NOT MINIMIZE THIS CONFIG EDITOR
It'll error, a simple 'on error resume next' in their source code would have fixed this :/ bummers ... anywhooo..

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:19 am Post subject:

ok if i minimize besides restarting it what will happen, quite useful thanks

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:23 am Post subject:

If you minimize the config editor, it'll crash because there is an error in their form_Resize code...

if you don't minimize it then you're good

.. just make sure you save your edits often...

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:25 am Post subject:

ok thanks heheeh

well hmm, you mentioned it displayed what would be a max allowable value i dont see that, while it looks more organised and easy to edit now, i still dont know what i can put from what not that might make it an unacceptable setting

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:27 am Post subject:

ok when you go to change a setting.

but for example for maximum recharge rate it has default 1150 but it doesnt tell you up to how much you can ad.....see what i mean?

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:29 am Post subject:

Once you're in the config editor, click the 'Load Descriptions' - locate your server folder, and in it there is a 'template.sss' file, select that and hit 'open'...

The low and high numbers appear in the first 2 boxes in the status bar.. I believe ship settings no longer have a max to them, but keep them within like normal ranges, don't set things for like over 1000, as far as weapons: 255 is the max item count you can have, i believe?

InitialBomb/setc can only be 0-3, you can not start out w/ l4 bombs ...

etc etc etc... im going to bed now. gnite

Cruis.In · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:14 am Post subject:

ok thank for all your help

one thing when you wake up. ive let initial bullets for warbird= 2 but nothing shows up in the bullets when i log on yes i saved and restarted server, only l1 bullets is showing up if i set that.

l3 bullets wont show up either.

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:26 am Post subject:

weird... cause I believe when you set initialvalue's you should be guaranteed those, unless im thinking wrong where it depends on the prizeweight values?

Smong · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

I recomend CSEdit for editing the server.cfg. Also the template.sss in the server.zip is very useful (as mentioned above), it can be openned with a text editor.