benu

It's not about ordering mappers around, i think the word is being considerate. It's absolutely no extra work for the mapper to put that info into the name of the map. The actual NAME of the can still be chosen as he likes it. Many times i've played on servers which suddenly got flooded with players and asked the admin to change to a bigger map for 12vs12 or more players and the admin didn't know which map was big enough. When i'm setting up a dedicated server i have to playtest each map to see if it's got a time or score parameter, cause if you don't set them up correctly in the server config they won't work at all. When i download a map it would be helpful if i knew what kind of map it is so i can chosse the right one without testing them all on my computer before editing the server config and uploading them to the server. It's hard enough running an ofp server without that additional and really pointless work. BTW: Renaming the missions imho is bad style. That's really disregarding the mappers wishes and all the players need to download the map (again) cause it's got a new name and they may have it n-fold on their harddrive under n different names.

As a player i couldn't care less what the name of a mission is, but as an admin it's just a lot of work to figure all this things out and it would have been no extra work for the mapper at all to put this info into the name of the map. Have you ever edited a server.cfg? How bout BIS post all their answers in czech? I mean they do a lot of work for the game and answering and all and why should they post in english? Hope you get the point...

Why not use the naming conventions bis use themselves? Eg name_of_map.island.pbo for singleplayer, like 07shadowkiller.abel.pbo and #players_type_name.island.pbo for multiplayer with type being (c|ctf|d|dm|t), like 1-4_C_SHADOWKILLER.ABEL.PBO, 1-8_D_FlagFight.ABEL.pbo, 2-8_T_CaptureTheFlag1.EDEN.pbo... I would also suggest you put a (t|s|ts, for time limit, score limit or both) between the name and the island if the map needs parameters for a dedicated server. It can be #### of a lot work for an admin to find that in the hundreds of maps. So for example 2-8_DM_newscenario_ts.cain.pbo for a team deathmatch map with time and score limit. (Edited by benu at 11:41 pm on Nov. 5, 2001)

Real Newbie question at this point: Are the commands (or variables btw) in the editor case senstitive. Every time someone answers a question they write the commands differrently: addweaponcargo, AddWeaponCargo, addWeaponCargo, etc... Does it make a differrence? Is the same true for variables? Or are variables case sensitive?

I really don't understand why those are never in the readmes... I mean, if anyone wants to use the new weapons/vehicles they have to be included in missions. To include them you need the object names. So why do they never mention them in the readmes. Actually ALL documention is really poor. I hope there's a server docu, an editing docu and a game docu somewhere in the near future. I mean, half the commands in the menues can't be looked up in the manual, some are explained in the sp campaign, but others are not. This really sucks.