Roger Devil i would like to say one thing
THANKYOU!
i would love to reward you in lump sums of cash but unfourtunatley i do not have the funds so all i have for now is many thanks from all the tournament players, the liquidmatrix.com and myself with so much gratitidue
as i told you i had a tournament to do on saturday feb 19th, and well, without your mod, the tournament most likely would not have happened.
i had about 12 teams that were playing double elimination. I needed to do 22 matches as fast as i could, i calculated about 25 min a match, and i basicly just put them at 30 min a match to be on the safe side.
we could do two matches at once, with 16 computers in use for matches.
So it was pretty much 4 matches per hour MAXIUMM. We started at 5pm and the last match started at 11pm, i calculated about 7 hours absolutley MAX.
I had four small issues,
NONE had to do with your mod at all!! (you are the man)
First issue, the two seperate SRCDS installs downloaded perfectly fine, although, none of our clients saw them!, i tried for a day to solve the problem, with no solution.
I then copied our one dedicated server that was\is working into two seperate directories and then put your mod on them.
These worked perfectly, until one server started crashing the other server , i would have 1 server playing, i would configure the second and then have the players join, 1st server would crash, 2nd would disapear from the servers list
Apparently what solved it was creating brand new shortcuts, redoing all paramaters for console, game, map, port, and it seemed to work?? (THANKGOD, i and my boss were sweating, i ont he otherhand was sweating bullets as i have never dealt with ANY servers whatsoever before i had this job back in december)
Steam had an update 40 min before the match, i was sweating bullets again.
THEN, our CAS server (cafe administration server, allocates all accounts for users and configs/player settings) decided to not log in ANYONE.
We were 30 min late to start, and then lost about 45 min with server issues.
After i fixed all the stupid server problems, all was working flawlessly your mod worked PERFECTLY with NO crashes, although we had 3 of our computers freeze, BUT this was prior to the server fix i did.
this is basicly how i worked out the servers for the 20+ matches
1. get the two teams at the 8 computers required, 4v4
2. find out which map they were to play on (conjointly chosen or chosen via coin toss)
3. find out who was on what side first, (coin flip or conjointly)
4. change the level in the server for that team *changelevel map
5. type hostname CLAN1(CT) VERSUS CLAN2(T)
6. make sure all players were on the correct teams
7. start cmp_match CLAN1 CLAN2
8. wait for the results of that match
the server settings were these for all matches but the very last for 1st place
2 min practice, no practice for OT
5 rounds
3 ot rounds (15000 cash)
800 cash buy
fadetoblack
no ff
all weapons allowed
1st place match was 15 rounds on each side. was EXTREMELY tense
the one thing that would be better about this mod is a easier to read match.cfg, ot.cfg ffa.cfg etc etc, everything on there with no spaces is fine and dandy, but having to read it is very hard.
also there MUST be a way to start matches in any configuration you wish, say if a server crashes, and the score is 4-8, terrorists had 1627 cash and CT had 4000 cash. I had to restart 2 matches from scratch when a team was just about to win and well, it gets very ugly when you have to reason with 15 year olds.
if i have anymore thoughts i will let ya know!
Again, MANY thankyous, i am so very greatful
Mitch
www.theliquidmatrix.com
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