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Slim Vision
10th April 2007, 19:07
No idea if this is the right place to do it, but might I suggest (not that I'm expecting to get taken notice of but I'm suggesting it anyway) improvements to the public server settings to make the matches last a bit longer than they currently do.

Artefact hunt; raise number of artefacts to 15.
Team DeathMatch; increase the frag limit to 150.
Deathmatch; either remove the time limit or increase it to 30-35 minutes.

Other things I can think of, map rotation perhaps? Although IIRC that was causing crashes... Though didn't 1.0001 fix that issue? Meh, no matter. Just it gets a bit boringplaying the same map over and over again, and when you get a few people on a server who won't vote for a map change either because they're just bone idle/don't know how to vote or they're sticklers and seem to want to play the same map over and over again then it really gets boring.

Karsh
10th April 2007, 19:42
Just so you are aware of these issues, Firstly GameSpy Master Servers are having major issues once again. This means that ALL S.T.A.L.K.E.R Servers will suffer problems, So if you are experiencing server crashes then this would explain it. As for a Config setting change. All i know at the moment is that the Config for S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a very messy one, And does not contain key parts for a normal Game Server Config. Suggestions like change of time limit sounds okay to do and of course it depends on Breath decision (And also K (Steve) ) on what to do.

ProfLiebstrom
10th April 2007, 20:18
Unfortunately the frag limit can't actually be increased. The maximum allowed by the game is 100 frags. It is something that needs to be passed on to THQ. Which limits how long a game can last.

I do agree it would be nice to get some longer games going on at least some of the servers though. So you could have a proper play with the top level weapons like the grenade launcher.

YoMma
10th April 2007, 21:09
Hopefully we will see RCON access in next patch, and a whole swathe of bug fixes and server settings becoming available.

I think this is almost for definite or the tournament in Lisbon will be a tough one to admin. Neophyte had trouble at i30 with the servers and did a tremendous job to pull it all off, I hope THQ will push devs for the fix to ensure the Lisbon tournament runs smoothly.

Slim Vision
11th April 2007, 18:43
Yowzers, I didn't realise the game had such limitations in that department.