PayPal balance: £184.62 GBP 64 player - 6 months: Sub Total:£163.20 (Ex VAT)VAT Due:£32.64Grand Total:£195.84 (Inc VAT) At this point I'm just waiting for a reply from KC. There will be some surplus after the discount has been applied. I'll stick in the difference. £11.22 £12 So who's going to do the initial setup?
Server's up http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/show/8078272d-cf17-450f-851a-ac057aad608a/CPC-Bit-tech/
Awesome! Favourite'd I'm sure Wyx and (with his help) myself could attempt the initial set-up? I'm just snowed under until Tues though =[.
Looking forward to getting the new server all filled, though I may go curl up in a corner during Metro because it's bound to be a bit chaotic with that many people squashed in the hallways.
What is required for server admin technology wise? Not setup a game server, but I work with AIX all day and am an engineering student so think I'm capable if you need a hand!
Could we perhaps increase the ticket count slightly as well, maybe somewhere between 500-600 per round. I just find that on 64 player servers with the default ticket count the rounds can be over quite quickly without doing much.
Any objections to (in no particular order): shariq peninsula gulf of oman caspian border grand bazaar seine crossing strike at karkand It strips out the huge maps that are tedious to play when the server isn't packed. Is there a mod to set other modes and maps when the server is only half full? It would be cool to play squad rush up until 16 players, or squad dm, or a 24 player conquest map. Tooling around huge maps gets a bit stale, and filling the server feels like a chore. Had we been playing a more suitible map or mode it would have been more fun. And we could do with admins, because the bf3terweb is full of blatant hackers.
there is a map manager plugin on Procon you could take a look at, basically changes map playlist based on amount of players. could use it to switch between city maps such as Bazaar, Seine and large maps such as Caspian, Gulf of Oman. talk to votick, im sure he can sort you out with procon login details for 64 players, ditto on larger ticket count. 200 or 250% is good
You could always look at rconNET they have a web based admin tool for bf3 but they have a monthly fee for the prem version. Is there of a way (using a script/mod) to ban the use of weapons on certain maps but allowing them to be used on other maps? For instance we could include Operation Metro but ban the use of explosives/shotguns/rpgs-smaw/m320 but allow them to used on every other map thats being rotated.
Idk if it's a good idea to restrict weapon use - even though I don't use the USAS or M320 very much at all (and dislike being killed by 'em) I'd feel bad considering it is a ranked, public server if they weren't able to be utilised. Certainly glitching to get outside Metro should be banned, but that will rely upon admin presence rather than anything else. @Rogzy: When we experimented with the map manager on the 32 player server we found it was difficult to get the server populated with Squad Rush as a starting mode (I do love SQRush though). Perhaps a better alternative would be TDM until 12 players, Conquest Small until 24, and Conquest Large after that. Caspian Border seems to be a great starting map for seeding a server from what I've gathered over the past couple of days watching the CPC 32 server on its 'clan match' map rotation. It's been full without any CPC/Bit-tech platoon members seeding it, which was a big change.