[SilverPeak]

Hi,

While im still very new to coding sourcemod plugins i end up creating alot of stuff for my own server. i'll try to share anything that might be of use to anyone else.

What will this plugin do?

it will by default force a map change in your server every ~8 minutes if no players are connected to it. you can define the time interval with emptyrotate_time cvar. if you do change the default cvar value of 500.0 (~8 minutes) make sure you do it in the server.cfg file and not while the server is already running the plugin.

Why?

by default nmrih servers keep running the last played map until it has been changed by a player vote or server admin. this means that whenever people leave your server the server will be stuck at the last played map, this usually is a map that isn't too popular with people.
this plugin will keep rotating maps in attempt of attracting people to your server, this will really help if your server runs alot of custom maps.

Important

this plugin will change maps to whatever sm_nextmap defines, it does not read your mapcycle file.
you should activate sourcemod's randomcycle.smx plugin for the intended result.
you can find randomcycle.smx in addons/sourcemod/plugins/disabled

Install instruction:
drop nmrih_emptyrotate_fix.smx in addons/sourcemod/plugins/ folder and it will work. additionally you could configure the emptyrotate_time cvar, this is not required.

[mazdarx8]

Hey, is it possible to add the function that I give a map in a .txt file which should be played, when server is empty?
Because I know some maps where people would join, because the map is popular.

Thank you.

[SilverPeak]

Originally Posted by mazdarx8 Hey, is it possible to add the function that I give a map in a .txt file which should be played, when server is empty? Because I know some maps where people would join, because the map is popular. Thank you.

Hi,

Activate randomcycle.smx and edit what maplist randomcycle uses in addons/sourcemod/configs/maplists.cfg
i have it currently at:

"randomcycle"
{
"file" "cfg/mapcycle.txt"
}

i hope it helps.

[yomox9]

Good practical script

[yomox9]

I used this script. My server often crashes when it was changed map by plugin...

FYI.
So I edited this script.
I changed command from "ForceChangeLevel" to "ServerCommandEx" with changelevel_next.
My server don't crashe now. But I don't know cause....
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3...zktRzVyYzJxQTg

[SilverPeak]

Originally Posted by yomox9 I used this script. My server often crashes when it was changed map by plugin... FYI. So I edited this script. I changed command from "ForceChangeLevel" to "ServerCommandEx" with changelevel_next. My server don't crashe now. But I don't know cause.... https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3...zktRzVyYzJxQTg

Hi.

That is strange. I have not had any error logs or crashes coming in while running this plugin on my own server.
Maybe a third-party server plugin or map is causing a conflict? i have played at one of your servers recently and it crashed out of nowhere. there appear to be some instability issues on your server 120.143.49.171:28018.

If you could be so kind to post any error logs regarding the crash, it would help alot with identifying the problem.

Thank you.

[SilverPeak]

plugin updated.

[yomox9]

Originally Posted by SilverPeak plugin updated.

What is different between current version and before version?
Maybe you should write version history(change history).

[SilverPeak]

Originally Posted by yomox9 What is different between current version and before version? Maybe you should write version history(change history).

previous version was using ForceChangeLevel sourcemod function to change map, i have replaced this method because it caused problems on my server.
i noticed that while running this plugin for many days my server became stuck at one map and wont ever change! this is fixed in the new updated version.

[yomox9]

GJ. I using it in my servers.