Map Rotation and server settings

Was having a look at the setup for map voting today trying to tweak it a bit, and ended up talking with Recon from -=CRAZY=- who handles their server. I’ve been wanting to allow map voting for anyone on the server when no admins are about, as I didn’t want to see “rtv” being abused while we were online, but wanted to leave it on so people didn’t get bored when we’re offline (taking a long term view here). Recon was saying though that with anyone allowed to vote on their server they found it caused some ping issues, and so they disabled it. What they have now is an automatic vote a few minutes near the end of each map and the server then switches to the winning map at the end of round, although admins can run @votemaps at any time if they want. To get around the map being stuck on unpopular maps while admins are offline he suggested giving regulars on server the ability to start a vote themselves. You’d do this by adding them to the admin list but only giving them the votemap flag, and I think there’s also a way to restrict this so their admin status only comes into effect when “master” admins are offline – and in that way we’d maintain control of the system while on the server ourselves.

I’m going to set this up because I think their system works quite well, and we’ll see how well it suits us. If anyone has any objections to it or can think of better way of configuring votes, post away 🙂

The config will look like this:

//*******************************************************************

////////////////////MapVotes

//********************************************************************

//values (0,1)//automatic map votes (mp_timelimit)

AutoMapVotes 1



//Amount of time for mp_timelimit hit to start a mapvote

AutoVoteMapTime 29.0



//values (0,1,2,3,4,5) Allow Voting 1 Admin Only,2 Anyone When No Admin ,3 Anyone, 4 same as 2 but uses numberofrockers to initate if no admins present,5 admins use rtv same as players (can change howmany they get as an admin)

Allowvoting 1



//VoteFrequency seconds after a vote someone can @votemap(s) again

VoteFrequency 180





//"Percentage of players needed for mapvoteS");

VoteMapsPercent "0.3"





//"Percentage of players needed for single mapvote");

VoteMapPercent "0.3"





//values 0,1 Picks a random map from mapcycle for nextmap

bm_randommapcycle 0







//DontIncludeLastMaps (values 0,positive number of the last maps played not to include in votemaps

DontIncludeLastMaps 2







//ExtendTimeLimit 20 NUMBER  or minutes to extend map if extend wins map vote

ExtendTimeLimit 20



//values (0,number of ppl needed to nominate a amp) 0 disabled.1 or more to require that many ppl to nominate a map

//admin_nominate admin level overrides this if enabled

NumberOfNominationsToAddMap 0





//value  number of seconds to wait to count votes

bm_TimeToCountVotes 60



//values (0,numberofsecs) number of seconds to change map after a manual rockthevote or votemaps vote (if won)

//for use with custom maps that dont have round_end events..leave 0 and manual rtv's will use next round_end to change map

bm_ChangeMapTimer 0









//values (0, Number of rtv's an admins rtv counts as if allowvoting 4)

bm_AdminVoteRockers 1



//values (0, decimal percentage of number of players to use for rtv .25 =25%, or positive value to be that Many)

bm_NumberOfRockersNeeded 1

A global setting ‘mp_timelimit 30’ and ‘mp_maxrounds 10’ will also be in effect.