Server Configuration Suggestions

[shan]

Hi all,

We are in the process of getting a couple SG Servers Infiltration Servers back on line. Since I have been away from the game for a while I would appreciate any advice you can offer on how the servers should be configured.

We will be running 1 TDM and one EAS server to start with.

We are hoping you can answer some questions, such as what maps should be in rotation, how many minimum players, what mutators should be on the server, etc. Any comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Shan

 

[Cleeus[JgKdo]]

Mutators:
- Rolling M67 (bundles with 2.9)
- Report Direction (serverside mutie that allows extended communication keybinds)

For the TDM server you will also need the NoSniperclasses Mutator.

For the players i think 10 are a minimum for a server. More is allways better but the problem is, that 2.9 takes up ALOT of server (CPU) power and it grows exponentially with the number of players.

But you can tweak it a bit. We set the HBFixFrequency option to 2 (= position updates per minute).

 

[yurch]

Lowering the HBFixfreqency helps massively. We use a setting of 1.

 

[{GD}Odie3]

Lowering the HBFixfreqency helps massively. We use a setting of 1.

What is this setting? What do you lose at a lower setting?

Thanks

 

[shan]

Thanks, I will change our setting.

What are your guys opinions on bots? Right now I have the server set to allow 16 players and the min set at 6. Is that high enough or is this what you meant when you said 10 players. Not sure how ppl feel about playing with bots.

Any other ideas are welcomed.

Shan

 

[Cleeus[JgKdo]]

IMO bots are useless but for getting people on the server they are good enough. So setting them to 4 or 6 may be good.

 

[Cleeus[JgKdo]]

What is this setting? What do you lose at a lower setting?

This influences the behaviour of the hill bug fix (hence HBFix...). It is the frequency in 1/s (aka Hz) with which the replication of the players position will be forced if he doesn't move. By setting it to 1 you will only get this update once every second. If there occurs a hillbug then the player will reset to his real position after one second. With a setting of 2, he will reset after half a second.

PS: the default is 5
PPS: you must/can set it for every individual gamemode

 

[yurch]

What is this setting? What do you lose at a lower setting?

The fix doesn't remove all hillbugging, it only attempts to re-replicate player info. You'll still get hillbugs with or without it(there are different flavors of hillbugs...), and I haven't noticed any real difference with it set at 1 or 5, although theoretically higher would be better. 5 times a second sounds quite excessive to me.

I wouldn't set it to zero, you might get a divide by zero error.

 

[{GD}Odie3]

Thanks for the information guys. I assume I make this change in the inf.ini (any other places I should know about)?

 

[Cleeus[JgKdo]]

inf.ini is the only place, but you have to make it multiple times there. just search