Setting up a 8v8 Server

[sLaM]

Ok I've had zero problems setting up a normal 32 man server. The other day our team wanted to scrim on a 8v8 map and I figured this would be an easy task to switch things up. I was wrong.

And trust me, I've searched HIGH AND LOW to figure this out. REGARDLESS of what settings I have in my maplist.con (yes I specified that I wanted only 16 on a map in there and it still did ZERO good) when I start BF2 it ALWAYS starts on the 32 man maps. I stuck entries in the maplist.con that only referred to 16 men maps but when I use the BF2 Launcher I don't get a choice on what size maps I want to pick. You have to choose maps for the rotation or the server launcher won't obviously launch the server.

So since there's no where in the server launcher to choose that you want a 16 man map, what do you do? There has to be a decently easy solution out there. It's ridiculous that they would make the game so hard to setup a simple 8v8 man map. I tried appending the maplist.con and changing my maxplayers in the serversettings.con like some people on here had suggested. This did nothing.

In the end, this is what I found to finally work for us: (and you might be wondering "If you figured it out why are you posting asking for the friggin answer? Because it shouldn't be THIS HARD to get something SO SIMPLE done - the BF2 Launcher should let you choose this)

login to rcon, then:

rcon exec maplist.list
rcon exec maplist.clear
rcon exec maplist.append sharqi_peninsula gpm_cq 16
rcon exec admin.runnextlevel

This changed it so we were finally able to play on a 8v8 map, but this took us awhile to figure out. Does anyone know a MUCH SIMPLER WAY (preferrably with the BF2 Launcher) to get a 8v8 map working?

Thanks!

[Munson]

Did you change the # of players in your serversettings.con file?

if yes, did you KILL and restart the process fresh or issue the "reset" command.


Mine switches form 16-32-64 and back flawlessly, just needs to be killed between each change.

Munson

[sLaM]

Yes, the first thing I would do is shut down the server. Then I would make the changes in the serversettings.con file (change max players) and restart the server. This did nothing for me.

[LetsbeFriends]

The maplist.con and serversettings you need to edit are located in a default bf2 folder in My Documents.

The files located in c:/programfile/eagames/bf2........ are just default.Editing these will not help.

I take it you have a profile set up? When you do this, it will create the folder in my documents called bf2. Look in there for the .con files to change.

[imported_Sharp]

After editting your maplist.con, change it to be a read only file.

Cheers