Private Slots and their usage

[Civ]

I'm looking to set up some private slots on my server... i know what to put in the cfg for it to be used, but what im wondering is:

When do the Private slots become active?

What do clients do to gain entry to the Private Slots?

[Hammer]

The slots become active when the next map is started. If you changed the settings in the middle of a map and there are players already in the slots, you have to manually kick them or then can reconnect.

All clients have to do is set password (using the console) to the server sv_privatepassword before connecting.

[Civ]

ok, thanks, maybe i dont fully understand but lets say the server is full and my clan members want to get in, how do they get in those private sltos themselves? and lets say the server is set to 24 but then 4 xtra pvt slots... public would only be able to get into those original 24, right>?

[MOMMA]

Correct.. if the server is set to 24 with 4 private slots (so really 28) then when 24 players is reached any additional users would get the "server full" message. In order to ensure they load into the Private slots your member would want to drop down the cosole and type

password xxxxxxxxxx
then
connect 555.555.555.555 (whatever your IP is)

or they can just dbl click on your server after entering the pass in console.

To make it easier, they can highlight your server and click settings (I think that's it, I'm at work so I can't check but anyway it's at the bottom) and it will alow you to put a password in and it will remember it for that server.

For those that use All Seeing Eye, they can right click on your server in the list and choose properties, there is a place for a game password there (and rcon pass if you know it) it will then remember that pass every time you enter the game.

[Civ]

Roger, thanks for clearing that up.