[StevenT]

Originally Posted by davida50000 You are going to say, omg you are the biggest NOOB EVER! And yes i am lol ;) I really want to use this as it looks good and seems to have good feedback. I am currently running a 24/7 Dustbowl server on Linux. Could someone please give me directions on how to make this work, were to put it, how to check its working, complete NOOB instructions would be good I do not have Source Mod, i am using Mani Admin, i can install SourceMod but i would also need instructions on how to install this and what to edit ect to make it work. I am a noob lol, and all your help with this is appreciated so much ! Thank you - David

mani sux :p

anyways:
1. download the latest SM version from the official page
2. upload it to your server (in addons/sourcemod/scripting you will notice compile.exe and sp.exe and your gameserver might reject uploading that, just delete these exe files then)
3. check gameinfo.txt and add the metamod line
4. download metamod source and upload it to your server
5. go to addons/metamod and add the SM line in metamod.ini
6. now you have SM installed with Meta source
7. download this plugin.smx and if there is any phrases.txt dont forget it either
8. upload plugin.smx to addons/sourcemod/plugins
9. upload phrases.txt to addons/sourcemod/translation
10. go pwn some noobs online :p

how easy can it be ? :p

check the official sourcemod page for more info and check out the wiki
and rtfm somewhere on the official page

[davida50000]

I am actually starting to dislike Mani myself lol.

I really appreciate your quick responce.



I will do them steps later today and get back to you on weather it works, if not then i hope you are ready for the even noober explinations lol

Thanks

- David

[Rene]

Hi.

Sounds like a kickass mod, however I seem to be having some problems getting it to work.

I have succesfully installed meta- and sourcemod (meta list + functions are working). However, whenever I put the mod into: cstrike\addons\sourcemod\plugins and reload the server, it doesn't seem to be doing anything?

Shouldn't it show me messages in the chat, is there anyway i can check to see where my problem lies?


Best Regards

- Rene

[MistaGee]

It doesn't show any messages unless someone is switched, so you'll either have to wait for that to happen or check the result of "sm plugins list", if the plugin is listed there it's loaded

Greetz

[CrimsonGT]

Im trying to figure out why this plugin doesn't work. I haven't tried it recently, but heard from others thats somethings wrong with it because it only balances on death...

The built in balancer only does so on death, so im not exactly sure whats wrong with it?

[DontWannaName]

It just doesnt work. Just like how the ping balancer plugin doesnt work. Its just... well... there. I liked this as a donator benefit when it worked but it doesnt currently.

[davida50000]

No, it doesnt work, i am running Source mod and everything on that works, but the mod doesnt lol.

- David

[Devilfish]

It doesnt work because it checks on death so if the teams for some reason (to many players all leave one side) become to unbalanced the smaller team cant kill anyone so no one on the winning side is ever moved to the losing side, we had lazytown with 2 v 10 players what chance do the 2 players have against 10 none, hence no balance ever takes place, you need to force a check to move live players.

[MistaGee]

ok now I see the problem... Yea I hadn't thought of that tbh...

I'm not quite sure what's the best way to fix that right now, I'll think of something.

Edit:

Ok, here's what we can try:
- Checks on Death: Obviously doesn't work because people on the stronger team never die.
- Checks on certain events: What about mods like cstrike that don't have these?
- Periodic checks: OK, but on Empires the commander might get switched. I can't help that, because I can't find out who the commander actually is.
- Checks on round start: I don't see any problems right now...

I think I might re-implement the periodic checks and switch them off for empires, as they seemed to work pretty well on every other mod, and I'll have teams be checked on each round start. That should finally work then.

Greetz

[DontWannaName]

Just make a mod specific balancer for TF2 so you dont have to worry about making it for other mods