Tournament Setup Help me please

[Dreamslayer]

I tried all damn day to get the dedicated server to run for my tournament. What i need is to create a batch file that runs a tournament config file ( if just grabbed a ton of setting but i need a good one) and creates 10-20 servers from that config file. I know how to start the 20 servers in the batch file but they dont show up in local and they dont follow tournament standards. Our first tourney is on friday so if anyone could help that would be awesome. The tournament is 1v1. I set it on dual because thats the closest i could see to 1v1. Our next is 2v2 which im going for the option of team ffa. The tourna should only start when all players are in ( which is easy in quake 3 but for some reason hard in jk2) I basically want it to wait for atleast 2 players to hop in and go 10.9.8. blah go! and it starts.

[MatrixCPA]

I'm assuming a couple of things. First, you are running the server on a win box. Second, you have enough ram and cpu power to run 20 instances of the game server at one time. If that's not right, let me know. Now, what you're going to need to do in your batch file is execute the server binary 20 times providing a different port number each time. The default setup will try a small range of different ports 28070-28080 which isn't sufficient for your purpose. You can use a wider range of ports than the default, of course. Since you want all the servers to have the same characteristics, you can use one config file. If you provide a list of requirements, I could probably provide you with a template to use.

 

It sounds like you're goning to ultimately have more than one setup, even if you only run one at a time. You'll want a separate config for each different setup--one for 1v1, one for 2v2, etc. Then you just run the batch file that for that gametype and presto. You might want to have the hostname in the command line so that you can make each server instance have a different name while still using the same config. I don't know if you intend to have logging active, but if you do that's another thing you might want to specify in the command line to keep each log separate.

[Dreamslayer]

Nope it didnt work. This ded server needs some real work hehe. If you load it then exec the config file in it..it comes up in the server listing. If you load the config file in a batch file it doesnt come up.

[MatrixCPA]

Before you write it off, why not show us what you're using in your batch file. If you call the dedicated server with the config exec'd in the command line, there should be no difference than if you did it from a shortcut or manually.