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Originally Posted by msleeper Cool hack, but kind of pointless. Just let the lobby system do it's thing, Coop games aren't hurting anyone.

We don't want anyone playing Coop on our server for two main reasons:

1) Coop tends to last for hours due to the nature of the game mode. Players can and do keep playing repeatedly, trying each map until they win it (particularly in Expert). We don't like this. We want our server to be used by lots of people through the day, not four across several hours.

2) (Main reason) We like to use our server too - we hate Coop and never want to play it. So with this plugin we know that if our server has players on it then it's Versus, which means we can join in the game (perhaps removing 1-2 players only) rather than restart the game (meaning removing up to 8 players).

We'd prefer the lobby system be designed so that servers can be flagged Versus or Coop only, which means the system only finds servers that allow whichever game type there is in the lobby. But this isn't the case, so this plugin does the trick and is the least obtrusive to the people being removed. It doesn't kick people (breaking up the lobby) and it's seamless, returning them very quickly so they can search for another lobby immediately.

Originally Posted by Kenster I agree. Pointless. You can manually conect to your server if you want. Other people will connect to whats open.

You cannot manually connect to our server. Default game mode when connecting directly is Coop. You will be removed immediately.

Originally Posted by protatoe I had read somewhere that to make a server one mode or the other only, you could remove the corresponding maps. Is that not true? On second thought maybe this is designed more for forked servers? The method I'd read would not work at all on forked servers... Good job all the same.

Most of these "fixes" result in players still joining your server but with bugs and issues. This ruins the game for them, often resulting in the party breaking up as people quit.

This plugin is as elegant as possible, returning everyone back to the lobby seamlessly, meaning they only have to look for another server - rather than join a crappy server that is riddled with game mode bugs due to files being changed or cvars being messed with.