Server Help

DD · Guest Offline

Hello,
I've been been playing about with subspace server zones for the last few days and want to try and get a turf flag zone running. I just want to do a simple periodic point reward system, based on flags owned by each team.

Firstly is see that Turf Flags are added into the lvl file right? I have been playing about with some turf-like maps and I see that stationary flags seem to be textued into the lvl file to appear at that position.

I've read the shanky server site guide and these forums, both of which have been very helpful, but I still cannot join my test server and get points to accumulate after I capture turf flags.

I've set under [Flag] CarryFlags=0, FlagMode=2 (turf), FlagReward=0, FlagRewardMode=0 and

[Territory]
RewardDelay=60
RewardBaseFlags=8
RewardMinimumPlayers=16
RewardPoints=30

[Periodic]
RewardDelay=600
RewardMinimumPlayers=1
RewardPoints=50

Are there any others settings Im missing? Is the Territory settings here messing me up? (can I delete them?)
Thanks for any help!

DD · Guest Offline

just to clarify.. I can see the flags and run over them and 'control' them, but I cannot get points for captures with my settinfgs above

Katie · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 6:47 am Post subject:

The flags aren't embedded into the lvl. Just use a simple program like SSME81.exe, and put them wherever you want using the flag tile.

-----Drow.-----

DD · Guest Offline

thanks.
So the game looks for any of these flag tiles and treats them as turf flags then..
Ok the map I playing with has this working, any ideas on why my points wouldnt increase after I control them? I would expect my points to increase 50 points per flag per 6 seconds with my settings, but they stay at zero

BTW, I set maxflags=0 and also to = 32 and neither had any effect as I would expect.

DD · Guest Offline

dont mean to bump myself..just I've spent loads of time on trying to get points to tally after I control flags..just wont happen no matter what settings I adjust. Im assuming then that you need at least 2 teams (freqs) in order to get subspace to start awarding points? At the moment Im just joining in by myself.

Katie · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:46 am Post subject:

Not necessarily true, in most zones I've ever created, you can make the flags appear for just one person.

There's a setting in there somewhere for it. Change it to 0.

-----Drow.-----

Katie · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:49 am Post subject:

[Periodic]
RewardMinimumPlayers=1

Leave this alone.

[Territory]
RewardMinimumPlayers=16

Change this to 1 as well.

On the other hand, were you saying that you were rewarded 0 points, or that there was no reward at all?

-----Drow.-----

Guest · Offline

Well it looks like Im not getting rewarded at all as I set rewards to be > 0.

hmmn thought I tried setting RewardMinimumPlayers=1 for both territory and periodic.
Perhaps I should create a map from scratch as the map Im trying to learn from is the first flag map I played since I first D/L'd continuum this week: starwars.lvl from DSB.
That map doesnt seem to have anything funky going on with it except the lvz stuff which only looks to replace how the flags look.

Thanks again!

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 3:40 pm Post subject:

You need atleast 3 people in the area to get turf rewards. It was a failsafe feature so people can't just enter an empty public arena, and constantly keep getting points without anyone else there.

Guest · Offline

hey thanks a lot!

heh..so it was player count.

Katie · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 6:24 pm Post subject:

I used to do it on my old server, but it was probably just because of an older biller version.

-----Drow.-----

DD · Guest Offline

just joined in with 2 bots in the game and it worked..w00t!!
much appreciated you guys answering newb questions!

Katie · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 12:20 am Post subject:

I wonder what allowed me to do it with one player then?

-----Drow.-----

Smong · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 1:11 pm Post subject:

Maybe:
[Periodic]
RewardMinimumPlayers=0

reel bad · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject:

maybe a bot (well, 2) in spec?

Katie · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 12:37 am Post subject:

Nah, it was when I first started hosting, I didn't even know what a bot was then. Well, that's probably a bit extreme, but I had no clue how to do anything with them.

-----Drow.-----