Stuck in "Starting Up"

[Nicoli319197]

I Downloaded the game a couple of minutes ago, I got into the game and selected"play" everything was going fine, I tried creating a game and setting a password since -from past game exp- its always best to start a game alone so you can get a feel for it, so I set a password, selected a username, picked out a map, didnt fiddle with anything else, pressed play and went to the "starting up" screen. Iv waited 15 minutes so far but nothing has changed or given any signs of it loading I needs halp! Btw Im usin' a Mac.

[UniqPhoeniX]

If you want to just test the game locally, you can use "/devmap atcs" in console (open with tilde key just above tab). You can learn a lot from spectating other players and by reading the Strategies & Tactics subforum. Don't forget to set source to internet in server browser when you want to join a server.
Oh, and welcome to Tremulous!

[Bissig]

You have to put the password in a config file. But you don't need it when you start a "Local Game" since no one outside your network can join it anyways.

[Undeference]

I Downloaded the game a couple of minutes ago, I got into the game and selected"play" everything was going fine, I tried creating a game and setting a password since -from past game exp- its always best to start a game alone so you can get a feel for it, so I set a password, selected a username, picked out a map, didnt fiddle with anything else, pressed play and went to the "starting up" screen. Iv waited 15 minutes so far but nothing has changed or given any signs of it loading I needs halp! Btw Im usin' a Mac.

Actual output would be useful. Run Tremulous from the Terminal and pipe the output to a text file. I don't know the actual executable name, so I can't give you a real command line, but it should be something like this:

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Tremulous.app/something/something > somefile.txt
I'm also not sure about the forum limits. You might have to use pastebin.

[Syntac]

This assumes Tremulous resides in your Applications folder (it should, by the way).

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/Applications/Tremulous/Tremulous.app/Contents/MacOS/Tremulous.ub &> ~/Desktop/condump.txt

Also, I recommend using a dedicated server for local stuff. If I remember correctly, the client is borked in that respect.

[Undeference]

This assumes Tremulous resides in your Applications folder (it should, by the way).

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/Applications/Tremulous/Tremulous.app/Contents/MacOS/Tremulous.ub &> ~/Desktop/condump.txt

Also, I recommend using a dedicated server for local stuff. If I remember correctly, the client is borked in that respect.

It's not that the client is "borked", but that you can't use a newer game.qvm without updated syscalls, which is not an issue here.