Monday Map Madness!

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For all you beta map fans who, like me, do not get a good ping to the Tremulous.info servers  :cry: , the }MG{MercenariesGuild.netCentral server is going to be hosting a beta map rotation starting at 4AM CST every Monday and continuing through 4AM CST Tuesday.  The server name in the Server List will become }MG{MondayMapMadness so look for it.

To make it a little more fun/less predictable, the gravity will decrease from 800 to 700 (to encourage exploration :-) ) and the buildpoints will increase 50 pts beyond our standard 100 alien/ 120 Human (to encourage base experimentation on the maps).

Updated information can be found here in the Mercenaries Guild site.

You may notice that some beta maps are not included in this list and that is because they appear in out standard rotation

This is a weekly event, so don't worry if you can't make it, there's always next week, or the week after, or the week after...

[holyknight]

too bad i can only play at weekends    maybe i can play secretly  

[Glunnator]

Ooooh, fun!
But just like holyknight here, I'm a weekend warrior.
But i am ABLE to play mid-week though, But pityfully not that early...

[Odin]

You could like, totally make an automated script to do this for you, in linux...

[Caveman]

Why deviate from the standard sttings?
I think it's not so a clever idea to change settings when testing new maps, as you can not see how they would be playable under normal circumstances...

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Odin, I have a script to do this, which is why I'm doing it every week :-D
It's quite simple too.  server.cfg is a link to server.cfg.prod.  I shut down tremded.x86 using the init script, relink server.cfg to server.cfg.beta (which points to map rotation 2, among other things) and starts tremded.x86.  It takes less than a second and the cron jobs to start it and revert it are already set up.

  I may do something along this line when the trem.X mod is refined and more tested.  :eek:

Caveman, the }MG{ server is normally on the conservative side with BP, 100 alien and 120 human (to try to balance out the games, since aliens were getting a huge lead in terms of games won) so as far as the BP, there are many servers where the beta config of BP like this is normal, or at least not extremely abnormal. :-)  As far as the gravity goes, I may adjust this, I'm really just trying it out.  If it is unplayable, or unbalanced I will switch it back.  There are so many Beta Maps that I want people to get an opportunity to explore them a bit instead of camping cause ya don't know the map. ;-) Lowered gravity may help in that respect.  It may not, but we'll see.

[stalefries]

Sounds sweet, although I have to agree with the difficulty of it being Monday. For those of us with school (or even, GASP, jobs!:human:) this isn't going to work so well, except for the afternoons/evenings. Maybe bumping it to Sundays would work?

[Odin]

Yea, I think Sunday would be a much better idea.

[Glunnator]

Yea, I think Sunday would be a much better idea.

Me 2 ... the downside would be losing the cool 3M name

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Super Map Sunday?
Solid Sunday Maps?
Forget Church, Beta Map time?
Grilling and Trem'ing?

The present name does have a flow to it, though super map sunday is nice ;-)

I may switch it to Sunday yet.  In the meantime, this will be a good test of some of the maps and TJW's wwwdownload feature, for me anyways :-)

[Glunnator]

Oooh! ooh! what about "Snappy mappy Sunday"?