Evil tournament patch

[Z-Man]

Err. I was bored and wanted to write a truly evil hack. Here it is. Don't learn from it. Its adds the command

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GAME_START <match limit>

To start a tornament game where the team first to reach <match limit> wins. The winner is then eliminated and runners up are determined, a total of TEAMS_MAX/2. Games can be aborted via GAME_ABORT, or just restarted with another GAME_START. Match counts are evilly appended to the team name in network syncs.

It's especially evil because it uses composed console commands to send stuff from eTeam to gGame. I hope smoothice is doing this thing the proper way

[XzL.Smart]

neat

[smoothice]

A good follow up to the shutdown on development of 0.2.8-armagetronad-sty+pvp. This sums up everything I wanted to do in less than 100 lines of code. Done much better than my crud..

[Z-Man]

I have been trying to figure out, based on what I find in the forums and the wiki, how to apply the Evil Tournament Patch. http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=19057 Could you please explain how to patch this?

Sure. Like every patch, you unpack the regular source (or fetch it from bzr), cd into it on a console and type

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bzcat <path_to_patch> | patch -p 0

(The -p 0 parameter can also be -p 1 for other patches. I do mine via 'bzr/svn diff' usually, though, so my patches always have to be applied with -p 0.) Check the output, if it contains anything like "Hunk #x failed", things went wrong and you need to resolve conflicts manually. Then you build from the result as usual.

Also, it is unclear to me how to change my Armathentication Setup to allow this to be used by Team Captains.
Could you please explain that as well?

In the config, add

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ACCESS_LEVEL GAME_START 7
ACCESS_LEVEL_ADMIN 7

The second line allows team leaders to use /admin in general (but not actually any commands), the first unlocks the GAME_START command for them. Of course, you also need

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USER_LEVEL <GID of team leader> 7

for every team leader.

(Edited for compatibility with other patch programs)

[compguygene]

Ty z-man. I guess that was kind of silly of me. I will try to do a good search b4 posting. Ty for the info, I will be using this in my ladle servers. Your explanation is just what I needed. I have already informed my Ww friends that in the next ladle, I will be functioning more as a server administrator. Also, I will be recording Ww's matches so I can review them and coach them accordingly in practices!

[Z-Man]

A patch to the patch. Fixes the bug where when you unlock your team, it gets destroyed.

[Z-Man]

Another fix. Prevents a match win in the round the game was started in to count.