Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 11:59 pm Post subject: BaseQ servers - Suggestions and Problems topic
Hi there, people!
This topic is not a topic about pancakes, default Quake2/3's folder or otakus.
However, this topic is related to BaseQ, one of your friendly (and European) ZDaemon Server neighboor.
As you may have known, BaseQ has entered to the Zdaemon's world a few months (January 2013 to be exact). Hosting servers for the French DooM Community was one of my priority, as I just came back after a long inactivity, and the existing french Servers hosted by Evolution have been removed from the surface of Earth. It was a good timing that I came back, I guess.
The only Server-Administrator of BaseQ is Ch0wW.
Until now, I released any sort of servers that would please people ; Local French (and fresh) WAD releases (3 Heures d'Agonie / Survive in Hell / DFrag / Castle of Hassle), Competition and new-school duel WADs (ZDDL4, zDuels32, 0x-Duel), FFA wads (Insta-Switch Brit10, Fune1), and CTF servers (mostly used as Private). Also, the weekly event, known as the Frenchies' Chaotic Tuesdays.
So, this topic is pretty Straight-forward : this is all about our servers.
As my primary goal is to make good servers with no (or very very little) problems related to a badly configured CFG for example, I'd think it is best to talk about it, to check if some.problems happened, possible crashs, or why not, WAD suggestions! After all, hearing the community about elements can help being stronger and more stable! So, you are winning by playing on a stable and unique server! Isn't what we all want?
I am regularly active, on lots of such as social networks, and mailing, and this topic . More below.
By the way, I am soon planning to make some CCW (Community-Chosen WADs) servers, that are regularly changing. I do not really know how and when will the rotation take place, but one thing is sure: YOU will choose what you want to play!
Oh, last, but not least : of course, we make configurations, but we also release them after a while! Please check our website below for that!
Joined: 01 Feb 2012 Location: France (67) Host: Zero Dawn
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:17 pm Post subject:
Something small but still cool you can add: Zoom on coop servers, and in CTF.
It's not much, it doesn't even break the gameplay, but it's one of those new cool things that make a difference between classic servers and 1.09-based ones!
You could also host some classic wads (let's say AV), using some crazy rotation system, using cvar overrides! Let's say one map will be played with 2* monster health, the next one in Nightmare, the third with Vampire mode.... Seems a small suggestion but that could spice games up a lot! Add a F1 Help screen to let the players know of the rotations based changes!
Also if anyone out there has interesting stuff they can provide, such as Shark's mods, let us know!
Right now I have been updating some configurations in order to be a little more "playable" (ie unlimited ammo on the shop, map00, and fewer intermission time). The Zoom feature will be set on all servers, so no problem about that!
But the episodic changes... Better is to leave it to the FCT...
JCD gave me the idea to put another french FFA wad, FRADM. I will make the server in a few minutes, hours if I am really really busy !
And no problem Ronald! I'm hoping to hear some ideas to add!
I'm not someone liking to see trollers when you want to make some serious servers.
If I/someone notice someone trolling on duel servers ; please report it to me. According to the decision chosen, it can be a tempban, a 1-week ban, or a permanent ban.
by the way, I also plan to give to a few people a new rcon_password being easily able to report the IP.
It's only to warn people a bit of their malicious actions(even if there aren't a lot of people doing that, and hopefully).
(just in case: I permanently banned pascuero / magnatehh exactly because of this behaviour; also, I won't change my mind until he gives me a really good reason to unban him.)
Anyway, back to the good news, or server updates.
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For easy admin Co-Op pleasure, all Coop/Survival Servers have been updated with the FCTLIB05.
Also, because it was excessively chaotic (in a good way), I plan to add "Double Destruction!" to the serverlist. Bombing at its finest! By the way, a mappack could be created, according to the mod's popularity.
(Optionnal news: QuakeWorld servers have been updated, the Adrenaline Gamer (HL1 promod)'s server has been removed (1.5 months inactivity rule), so that performance could be a little better for players)
Please don't forget to /join #baseqon zIRC for server discussion, wad suggestions, et cetera!
Just an announcement ; we still haven't got our new dedicated machine, so we're going to wait again for some weeks (or days, or hours if we're lucky) until it is ready.
We'll also have to ask for increasing the serverlimit once we'll receive it.
About the servers, we updated the ZCL2013 server, aswell as some little fixes in tdmax_b3, and in SiH.
Please note that every server will be set on newer IPs.
Of course, we will not get rid of our old servers so easily for now, so they will be left for competition (and copies of those servers will be set until they expire).
But for better experience, please consider using the newest servers, for even better experiences
PS: update too: 3HA has been updated with the FCTLIB05.wad.
EDIT : Servers ports are being attributed like this:
"casual" servers (FCT/Survival/Coop/FFA) : ports 12000 to 13000.
"competitive" servers (Duels/TDM/CTF) : ports 13000 to 14000.
EDIT2 : the private ZDDL4 server has been removed, replaced with ZDDL4 non-private.
EDIT3: Some (doubling) servers have been removed. Only most of the "competitive" servers are up with their doubles.
After some reflexion (and as I got some money problems), I have decided to SHUTDOWN one of our machines ; the ProZD one, with only CTF / Duels servers.
Don't fear though! As we had our new machine, I already "transfered" the servers to the new one (the day I received it)!
Also, don't hesitate to support us! If there's no news, no server suggestion, it can go bad after some time, and I don't really like that.
But again, BIG Thanks playing in our servers! I'm hoping you are having a nice stay there
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BTW: i just logged-in in my notebook and i don't have the wad here, and i tried to join the server and it downloaded the map, but it says to me that the wad is different from server, it is running the outdated version or it's just part of the test?
Greetings.
We have updated our servers. Here's what's modified.
INSIDE THE SERVER UPDATES
• We've added a specific reboot time for the new server (ironically enough, they NEVER rebooted, leading in some problems in some other games). It will reboot everyday at 6AM (GMT+1).
WAD UPDATES
• As asked yesterday, I've updated the ZDMegaCTF server to 1h_rc3 ! I've also added a bonusmap, hibiscusprime_zdm1h.
Thank you Evolution for this suggestion (and most importantly the update), it has been done .
CFG/SERVERS UPDATES
• We are slowly going to update the servernames to match our new server naming criterias.
• We have added a special character on the SCRIM/PRIVATE servers to be easily findable.
• One ZDMegaCTF server is now a Private server for true clanmatchs, as requested by some players. Other servers have been renamed to SCRIM servers, for better visibility. Of course, ask me the password ; I'll change it only a clanmatch is done.
I hope that you're enjoying playing in our servers .
CFG/SERVERS UPDATES
• Zduels32: Added Item Respawn for Shoot! I know the wad is played sometimes, but not a lot on this map, but I wanted to be sure this gonna be fixed.
• ZCL2013 : Until someone gives me a valuable reason, I'm stopping this server (reason: nobody plays, ZDMegaCTF is used instead)
• Fune13 BFG Edition: Modified slightly some DMFlags.
By the way, tomorrow, I'm going to ask Domains for some EXP-registering on the transfered servers.
Anyway, I'd love to get new wad suggestions, so if you're having some, let's go!
And, if people care for small donations (I'm having small difficulties to rent the 2 servers), please go on o/
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