SoL Worldwide server

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I was playing on the sol server today and very impressed with the ping, can you guys tell me the name of the server host?

well... The issue IS are we able to... Idk if i am, are u aju?

NickdeClaw wrote:

Xasomur wrote:

first of all, i am not the host of the server ^^ i just do most of his work
nick is still server host, and we need to send him more money before he closes our server

and this is why any changing location or mod is a tricky one

Do most of my work? What work do I have to do as the server host? None except pay for the server with the money Xaso gives me!

Our server location is for multiple reasons, and we have been over this countless times. The central location is one part of it. There are secondary networking features that only the American locations provide that have been necessary in the past and I feel are still necessary. Petition your European ISPs to improve their network infrastructure.

As for mods, changing that is not something that only the server host can do. Any HC can do that.

i tried kicking the butts of my provider all the time to increase the goddammed speed and remove traffic limits of these mobile internets which makes you run like a 56k dialup modem.

lmao Xaso xD a mod is just a pk3, which loads configs to the game. You just put the pk3 in base folder of server, remove dcmod one, and magic, the mod runs by itself, lmoa.

Just wondering. If the hoster himself only do have ftp access, how the hell istge HC supposed to load other momods into le serveur?

ah aju
how you just dont know that nearly all the cfg data we use is in a FOLDER called dcmod1.2
only the bots, the maps and some basic system info is in the base folder.

now all the configuration data works in the dcmod folder. and all our cfgs work with the dcmod settings and the dcmod commands.
so depending on what mod we get, we might have to work through all of our cfgs and check if they still work the same way. and because i have so little clue about that stuff i dont know what all will be changed... but i am afraid of the loads that could be changed. and not only be changed... there may be new functions, functions missing and all that stuff...
thats why i wanted manta to use dcmod as a base and only changes whats necessary.

If i had he source of dcmod, i could work on further. But nooooooo i have to begin from zero, so the system differs from dcmod. So before we change the mod, i have to give you guys a general instruction to let you guys know how it works.

You guys can experiment with new mods, I don't have to agree with that; you're the HCs. I would just ask that you do it cautiously and not damage the DCMod functioning in the process if we wanted to switch back. So basically, if you change the mod, you should leave the dcmod1.2 folder as it is, and create a new folder for the new mod. That way you can easily switch between the two mods. What you would do is copy all the CFGs from dcmod1.2 to the new mod's folder, and edit them all so that they work with the new mod.

You really need to know what you're doing if you want it to work and not be a huge mess. It would be ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY that you test the new mod AND ALL THE CFGs fully on your OWN COMPUTER before you messed around with it on the server. You can get a fully working local server using all of our CFGs to test it out; there is NOTHING that requires being on the live SoL Server to test - it can all be done on your own computer, so that's where the experimenting should be done.

P.S. - the CFGs and the mod itself do NOT go in the base folder. They go in the mod folder so that they're nice and separate. Maps go in the base folder.

actually, i have no idea who else than nickdeclaw has the ftp or sftp access to the server, just to transfer the files back and forward. Do the HC only have that kind of access or is there any other way to communicate with the server?

ha, if we put the mod.pk3 into the mod folder... How we switch the mod then ?

I think i can figure out those other commands... But idk how long it will take :S

Commands are still listed up in the help section, no worries. The only matter is the set up.