TDM MAPROTATION

[Reissmann]

my clan has purchased a 20 man dedicated server from a server provider. we would like to implement a rotation featuring just tdm maps (all except ship, depot, and powcamp). i've tried and i've tried. i've typed the /set sv_mapRotation "" in rcon i've edited the cfg file and nothing doing. if someone is an admin of a public dedicated server and runs a tdm map rotation can they please post a copy of the part of their cfg file that contains map info? there are lots of posts on this i know but they all seem to be for people running dedicated servers off of their home pc. any help would be greatly appreciated!!

THANKS

also how do you get your map rotation to start and replay?

[pair]

Here is the map rotation cut and pasted from my running .cfg on a rented server:

// Map Rotation
set sv_mapRotation "gametype tdm map mp_carentan gametype tdm map mp_chateau gametype tdm map mp_dawnville gametype tdm map mp_depot gametype tdm map mp_harbor gametype tdm map mp_pavlov gametype tdm map mp_powcamp gametype tdm map mp_railyard "

In addition to having your rotation in the .cfg file, the argument:

+map_rotate

must be in the server startup command line ("shortcut), but I assume that your server host knows this and has implemented it.

VERY IMPORTANT:

You .cfg file can NOT be named:

server.cfg

since this is a reserved name of a file that the game loads every time it runs.

If your .cfg has this name, it is being ignored by the game.

Any other name is okay.

[Hammer]

Okay folks I'm getting a bit confused by a lot of folks claiming that using server.cfg is taboo in CoD or whatever ... THIS IS NOT TRUE. While there is a file named server.cfg in one of the pk3 file, the game in no way consults that on it's own.

I have been using server.cfg in both Windows and linux with zero problems. If someone is having trouble using that file, then please post some log output so it can be checked!

[Tighten]

I can't speak for people running their servers in console, but when running the game via a service, if you try to exec the server.cfg it looks in all files located inside the main folder for a "server.cfg" .

Now being that one of the pak files use a config file named "server.cfg" it would try to use the one implimented into the pak file before the actual "server.cfg" you placed in the main.

If the shortcut method being used my some, does'nt have this problem - great.

I know it will not use "server.cfg" if your COD is installed as a service. (if the service install is like ours)

I think even IW stated something to the fact about not using server.cfg either, not 100%, but I think they did.

MC - how are your servers installed?