Reserving Slots on a server

[Residual]

What are the commands to say reserve 4 slots on a server, and have 16 open to pubs. And have the 4 slots available through a password.

[MatrixCPA]

Add/modify these in your server.cfg:

 

seta sv_maxclients 20

seta sv_privateClients 4

seta sv_privatePassword "blah"

 

Just set the password to what you want and you have 16 public spots and 4 private ones.

[Residual]

Okay thanks, that's what I thought, but at first it didn't work.....then I realized I didn't re-exec the server config

DOH

[MatrixCPA]

Yeah, makes all the difference in the world.

[scoobz]

I tried following that.... as a test I tried on my own non-dedicated comp.

 

Normally have it set to maxclients 4 so I changed it to 5 and added one private...... but the password restrction didn't work.

 

I had myself in there and created 3 other bots - server should now be publically full - which it is.... however I had a Padawan connect and enter the game who didn't have a password, so I asked a m8 and he came in as well without the server asking for password.

 

Am I missing something?

[TheBru]

I may be wrong about this, but I noticed last night on one of my servers that while it may appear full because of the bots, anyone can still join (assuming there are still public slots available) and one of the bots will get kicked.

[AaronBrown]

Ok i have a dumb question, On my dedicated servers server.cfg i have the following lines:

seta sv_maxclients 16

seta sv_privateClients 4

seta sv_privatePassword "the password"

 

however just a bit ago i tried to join with the 12 public slots full and it said server full, how do i join the game as a private client? Or is there something wrong with the server.cfg??? is it supposed to be

 

seta sv_privatePassword the password

 

or

 

seta sv_privatePassword "the password"

 

or could it be something else???

[MatrixCPA]

It's supposed to be:

 

seta sv_privatePassword "password"

 

When you get ready to join the server, make sure you put in the password by hitting the "password" button near the bottom right of the server list, type the password into the box, hit done and then join. I haven't tried passwords with spaces in them...but I don't know if your password actually has any. If it does, reset it to be something without spaces and try.

 

On a side note, because it was mentioned above, you did restart the server after adding those lines to the config, right? I'm not trying to be insulting....just covering all the bases.

[AaronBrown]

I figured it out, it was a simple error in the server.cfg seta sv_privatePassworrd "blah" (two rs lol)