Ok, I have been cheating on this newgroup.... I have been reading others.
What I have seen, is numerous requests for a few things, that I think sound resonable. 1: a cvar to allowdownloads of everything EXCEPT bsp files. so that players can get sprays and custom models..... but not choke bandwidth getting a map from teh server. 2: a message that will show up kinda like teh MOTD, but in between levels. So that say the above does not happen, when a player is downloading a map from the server, he would be sent a message that say "blah blah blah download this map from here instead for fast downloads blah blah blah" and could be read in from a txt file on the server. Maybe give a bit more info to the players as they wait.. just an idea. I know there is an admin mod plugin that does this, but I have seen and helpped with a few problems with it. Also not every mod works with admin mod. And to top all that off, if you were to run say an anticheat program, admin mod, metamod, your mod, and every plugin you could find for all of this, you might take a little bit of a resource hit when player #2 joins the game. So I guess in a nut shell, is there anywhere outside the engine, where the server is told to put the player on ice becausing he is downloading a map that we could inssert some of this code to do it ourselves?? Or would valve need to add this to the engine for us? Just letting the thoughts roam freely in my empty head, Dave _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
