Greetings, Been playing for several days now. The mod looks cool and most people you play with are somewhat helpful ingame. One of the servers I've been visiting most of all is the napalm one. Sadly it seems that one is no longer around and I've been hearing things about it being closed because of some dispute amongst the admins / leaders. The other servers I've been on just seem to be adminless, resulting in a huge increase in childish behavior all amongst the servers. One of the servers I've been in is "European RapeFest -- Bring your own rape". Though the server was quite full and the play enjoyable the amount of griefers was enormous, resulting is such a downside to playing I've dropped the comment in the server if there would be players around my server if I decided to host one. I've been getting a load of positive reactions to that and decided it might actually be a possibility to have some nice playable servers again. So here it is: Surely as you can all understand I can't do this alone. I need some help with adminning and stuff. The rules of the server can be seen here: Clicky. The admin-reruitment page can be found here: Click. Serverbans overview (+protest or banrequest) can be found here: Clicky. All the above can also be found on the server, inside the motd screen. The current maplist has been adjusted a bit, any change or help with it will surely be appreciated! I'm thinking of adding the following custom maps: emp_sinking_mkii (forum) (download) emp_midbridge (forum) (download) I do not yet have enough experience to say the maps rock. Might be a nice idea to get some sort of playtest going to look at the maps and also see how playable the server is ? Enjoy your play! See you on the server perhaps -- Rawh
Good luck hosting, i wish you all the best and a successful server, i will be playing this one instead of napalms, because i, as a matter of fact live in Europe!
whatever you do, dont make Omni an admin. Else he will micspam all over the server. j/k. Good luck mate, and hurry up please because i wanna play in those mass-populated servers !!!
I don't want any micspam. Admin or not, I will not tolerate it! You get a warn for it and if you keep on playing the macho man you'll be banned for it
There should be a league of vet Admins for this sort of thing. Just long-time vets we all know would be admins on an official server if there were one. Also, no emp_: valley district402 urbanchaos umm, guess thats it
I don't micspam... I also don't play Empires regularly anymore, so meh. As for the server, I would suggest keeping all settings default. (tinkering with res rates and research, and stuff like that, can really ruin an Empires server...) As for maps, you'll be wanting a lot of customs, to keep people interested. Would suggest looking in the playable custom maps thread in the mapping forum for ideas. And please, please, don't put quake sounds or any of that bullshit on it. Anyway, good luck!
Hmm good to see someone eager to make some replacement for napalms, and knowing how to acctract people to it. Perhaps i'll send an e-mail after todays school party One important question : how many slots?
I do not know what the best slot/performance based setting will be. I've set the slots at 48 because that's what most servers I've played on had. I'll do some tweaking later on once I have a clue as to how playing goes :confused:
What he said. Vanilla settings work best for gameplay. Also don't start using stupid plugins. For the custom maps, check them first to see which one are good enough. Don't add too much just to have more maps. Well it's your server of course, but ...
i agree on the desire for vanilla the most part, but some plug ins or fine tunings can be beneficial for a decent game flow
I won't deviate from the default settings at all. Only setting that has been changed is sv_specspeed, which was 3 at default and set to 5, so spectators can fly a bit faster through the map. I've seen the parachute-mod on other servers but I can't seem to find the plugin anywhere, does anyone perhaps an url regarding this plugin? Any other plugins you would like to see? Don't worry about to many plugins, most plugins I have running are admin related (i.e. chat, cmd logging, abuse, mysqlbased management), I'm not about to put quake/unreal sounds in there, hate those things myself in any game I'm thinking of adding the following custom maps: emp_sinking_mkii (forum) (download) emp_midbridge (forum) (download) I do not yet have enough experience to say the maps rock. Might be a nice idea to get some sort of playtest going to look at the maps and also see how playable the server is ?
You will also want to recruit a LOT of admins... Empires needs near constant policing, unfortunately... ... but not too many, as it will degenerate into ADMIN WARZ and INTERNET DRAMA like on Napalms...
