New server, setting suggestions

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:12 am

Hi all, really appreciate the effort of all who have helped provide this game.

I have been playing for a while now and love the game, however, playing from australia there are no servers. Lag is always a problem.

Being in australia, what server settings would allow for best play for those coming from overseas?

Are there any settings people could suggest?

Also, trying to get my service provider "Exetel" to host a server, please see the "Other Games" section at this URL http://games.exetel.com.au/forum/
and add comments to support this push, might get a server installed with heaps of bandwidth.

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:30 am

Basically higher then average rubber. Something in the area of 5 or 6, to counter act the lag. That's all that comes to mind right now. Also maybe a slightly slower speed, so you have more reaction time.

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:33 am

goshdarn settings are always a nice choice. and the winzone should be changed to deathzone, naturally.

Prayer 1 / TheMaskedMoron / Frogmouth Jones

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:56 am

nicolas.b wrote:goshdarn settings are always a nice choice. and the winzone should be changed to deathzone, naturally.

Prayer 1 / TheMaskedMoron / Frogmouth Jones

Where would i get goshdarn settings

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:15 am

there's a couple threads that have them, i think. here's one with perhaps an abbreviated list:

http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... n+settings

i also agree with the high rubber!

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:15 am

nicolas.b wrote:there's a couple threads that have them, i think. here's one with perhaps an abbreviated list:

http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t= ... n+settings

i also agree with the high rubber!

OK i pasted these settings to settings.cfg
seems OK, do i need to disable any other settings from the default?

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:18 am

brad, i'm a little confused because i was only able to connect just now by custom connect to your IP. when i browsed the internet list of servers from top to bottom i couldn't find yours. and this is strange because the other day your server showed up just fine. possibly you changed the "broadcast to master server" setting from 1 to 0 or something.

and on a totally unrelated note, i see another aussie server called "games.secret.com.au" .... AU stands for oz, not austria, right?

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:22 am

nicolas.b wrote:brad, i'm a little confused because i was only able to connect just now by custom connect to your IP. when i browsed the internet list of servers from top to bottom i couldn't find yours. and this is strange because the other day your server showed up just fine. possibly you changed the "broadcast to master server" setting from 1 to 0 or something.
no its set the same
---cut---
TALK_TO_MASTER 1 # set this to 1 if you want this server to be known
# on the internet

DEDICATED_IDLE 2 # if you run a dedicated server and set this
--paste---

and on a totally unrelated note, i see another aussie server called "games.secret.com.au" .... AU stands for oz, not austria, right?

maybe should upload my config files for you to look at?

nicolas.b · Post by **nicolas.b** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:24 am

yes, good idea. anyway, i'm heading back to the grid for now. will look at it when i get back here...

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:32 am

Nicolas.b
here are my config files zipped

subby · Post by **subby** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:51 am

There is one extra file that is important

and that is var/user.cfg

this file is created the first time you run armagetron.
IT has a lot of setting that is loaded when armagetron is loaded including:
CLIENT_PORT 4534
SERVER_PORT 4534
SERVER_NAME Unnamed Server

SERVER_NAME is the most important, there is such a name in dedicated_Server.cfg (or elsewhere doesnt matter where for now) but the upshot is that armagetron will ignore SERVER_NAME from any other file if it is set in user.cfg to something else. ( i think it was this way around

Ie make sure that SERVER_NAME is correct in ALL files to make sure.

:Brad · Post by **:Brad** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:52 am

Thanks Subby, done that, there was no var/user.cfg file.

Brad

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:05 pm

Be sure to set DEDICATED_IDLE to 0 or it will shut down after 2 hours if no one has played on it...

antix · Post by **antix** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:59 pm

I'm too trying to set up a server.
However there is no user.cfg in the /var dir

If someone could post a sample cfg file that I could edit, that would be very much appriciated.

aswell as any command line options that you suggest.

Btw, the server will be running on a 10mb connection, pumped through an oc48.
So any ideas on the best server settings for this configuration would be great.

cheers

AntiX

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:14 pm

did you already run the server binary at least once?